In this tutorial you will learn how to create crystal ribbons, very pretty in signatures and web banners.

examples of uses.




CRYSTAL RIBBONS TUTORIAL

set your colors to defualt
create a 500x500 document
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Fill The Document With Black

Filter-Render-Lensflare



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Filter-Distort-Wave


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Filter-Sketch-Chrome


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Filter-Sylize-Wind with DEFAULT SETTINGS

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Duplicate Layer
Filter-Distort-Ocean Ripple
DEFAULT SETTINGS

Set Layer To Lighten
Merge Layers


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Filter-Distort-Pinch 50% 2 Times
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Filter-Distort-Wave



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Duplicate Layer
Edit-Transform-Flip Horizontal
Set Layer To Lighten
Merge Layers


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Duplicate Layer
Transform- Flip Vertical
Set To Lighten or screen
merge Layers


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Filter-Distort-Polar Coordinates
-Polar To Rectangle-


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Duplicate layer 2 times
set both to screen

---Copy #1---Filter Distort Twirl-settings----156
---Copy #2---Filter Distort Twirl-settings----Negative 156

MERGE LAYERS


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Duplicate layer-Filter-Blur-Gaussion Blur with a radius of 2.0
Set layer to lighten-MERGE ALL LAYERS


ADD COLOR and you are done.

Heres my finishing product




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Heres the icon for www.good-tutorials.com Matsuda you upload it there.

Added to GT and P2L.

You might want to add it to www.tutorialized.com too. If you want to.

to add it to tutoriallized you have to be a member, and i am too lazy to get a membership..but we could get one and have the login as like BlacKCAnvas