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Floating Pixels

Added: Mar 23, 2005 Rating:

Level: Beginner Software: Photoshop

Pixels of different luminance floating in a random pattern.


	1. Create a new document, reset your foreground and background colors (D), then add a Clouds filter (Filter> Render> Clouds).

	2. Apply a Find Edges filter (Filter> Stylize> FInd Edges).

	3. Increase the contrast by apply an Auto Levels (Ctrl+Shift+L)

	4. Apply a Charcoal filter (Filter> Sketch> Charcoal) with these settings: Charcoal Thickness: 1 Detail: 5 Light/Dark Balance: 50

	5. Invert the image (Ctrl+I).

	6. Rotate the image by 45ºCW (Image> Rotate Canvas> Arbitrary)

	7. Increase the highlights using the Maximum filter (Filter> Other> Maximum). I used a radius of 10.

	8. Rotate the image by 45ºCCW (Image> Rotate Canvas> Arbitrary)

	9. Crop the image.

	10. Colorize the image using the Hue/Saturation tool (Ctrl+U). These are the settings I used: Hue: 200 Saturation: 100 Lightness: 0

	11. Create a new layer, add a Clouds filter (Filter> Render> Clouds) and change the blending mode to Overlay.

	12. Repeat the previous step.

	13. Here is the result that I got.