Hex Blast

Added: Mar 23, 2005 Rating:

Level: Experienced Software: Photoshop

Complementary colored hexagons blasting towards the center.


	1. Create a new 500x500 pixels documant and add a Clouds filter (Filter> Render> Clouds).

	2. Add a Stained Glass filter (Filter> Texture> Stained Glass) with these settings: Cell Size: 10 Border Thickness: 1 Light Intensity: 0

	3. Distort the image using the Spherize filter (Filter> Distort> Spherize) with these settings: Amount: 100% Mode: Normal

	4. Duplicate the layer (Ctrl+J) and change the blending mode of the new layer to Overlay.

	5. Rotate the layer 180º CCW (Edit> Transform> Rotate 180º CCW).

	6. Duplicate the layer (Ctrl+J), apply the previous filter (Ctrl+F) then repeat this step two more times.

	7. Flatten the image (Layer> Flatten Image).

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

	9. Duplicate the layer (Ctrl+J) and change the blending mode to Screen.

	10. Rotate the layer 180º CCW (Edit> Transform> Rotate 180º CCW).

	11. On the top layer, set the Hue to +180 using the Hue/Saturation tool (Ctrl+U).

	12. Crop the image from the center.

	13. Here is the result that I got.