Gel Blast

This effect... WOW... im jsut speechless! pretty easy also, this reminds me of a program from skyone... called Stargate, or a program like that

1. Make a new image, ours is 1000px x 1000px - with a white background

2. Fill the background with Dark Blue - we used #141A23

3. Create a new layer, and grab the marquee tool

4. Make a rectangle reaching from the very left hand side of your page, to the very right hand side at approximatley 125px high

5. Fill this with white - Hold CTRL and press D to deselect

6. Click Filter > Distort > Ripple, and leave it at default settings - repeat this process another 3 times

7. Click Edit > Transform > Rotate 90 clockwise

8. Click Filter > Stylise > Wind = Wind - From the left

9. Do this 2 times in total - then the same again, but from the right

10. Click Edit > Transform > Rotate 90 counter clockwise

11. Hold CTRL and press T

Slightly drag the middle right hand side, and left hand side boxes, about 2cm past the borders of the canvas - then hit enter

12. Click Filter > Distort > Polar Coordinates - rectangular to polar

13. Duplicate that layer, and hold CTRL and press T to transform it - make it into a shape a little smaller than the current one - Hit enter

14. Hold CTRL and press A - then Edit > Cut - then Edit > Paste

15. Click the 2nd layer from the bottom on your layers palate, and do step 14 to that

16. Select your background layer. Click Layer > New > Layer and call it Lens flair!

17. Fill this layer Black

18. Click Filter > Render > Lens flair - and center it to the best you can

19. On the layers palate, set the blending options to colours dodge

20. Hold CTRL and press U - and enter the following settings

21. Make a new layer called clouds, press D to reset your colours, and click Filter > Render > Clouds

22. Click Filter > Distort > Pinch - and give it 100% - then repeat this another 2 times

23. Click Filter > Render > Lighting Effects and give it the following settings :

24. Set the blending options on the layers palate to colour dodge. Then click Filter > Sketch > Chrome and give it defauly settings

25. Click Image > Adjust > Brightness + contrast - and set the contrast to +50

Merge all the layers by clicking Layer > Merge visible