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Splashing Lava

Author: Ryan Trafford Author's URL: www.thedesignworld.com More by this author

1) Make a 400x400 document. Now press "D" on your keyboard to reset the foreground and background colors to black and white. Fill the background with Black.

2) Now we add a 5 or more Lens Flares. Filter>Render>Lens Flare. Choose the 105 Prime Lens at the bottom. Add 5 lens flares to the background, use different sizes, just dont go over 100%. Once your done your background should look like:

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3) Now duplicate the Background Layer and set Screen as the blending mode for the new duplicated layer.

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4) Now apply Chrome to the background layer (do not apply to duplicated layer). Filter>Sketch>Chrome. Use these settings:

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5) Now we add Filter>Sketch>Bass Relief to the Duplicated Background Layer. Use these settings:

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6) Now apply Filter>Artistic>Plastic Wrap to the duplicated layer aswell, use these settings:

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7) Now make a new layer and press "D" to reset to black and white. Go to Filter>Render>Clouds and set Linear Burn for the layers blending options.

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8) Now apply Filter>Distort>Polar Coordinates to the Background layer. Select Polar to Rectangle.

9) Now apply these color settings to each layer by pressing CNTRL+U with the layer selected.

Layer 1 Settings:

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Background Copy Settings:

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Background Settings:

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Your Layers window should now look exactly like mine:

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Voila you are done, your work should look similar to mine below:

Splashing Lava