Abstract Brushing

1. Start off with your background just as black, or a starfield on a 600px x 600px document. Now, on a new layer, grab a brush about 40px hard (white foreground), and brush a fan shape . Duplicate this layer and hide the duplicate one for now (its the top one). Now Filter > Blur > Guassian blur the visible layer - to about 7.0pixels

2. Duplicate this layer. Now, guassian blur the bottom one of the two and colorize it (CTRL + U) a hard blue. set the duplicated one's blending options to to overlay.

3. Right, you remember that layer we hided before? the one that we duplicated? It should be at the top of your layers palate :) So, show it again! Add a circle to the bottom right hand side of it, about 100px in diameter, and then grab your smudge tool. Now, with a softish brush, you'll need to make the circle blend with the white lines. Again with the brush tool, you are going to have to simply smudge the lines in the direction they are already going alternating slightly every now and again. This WILL take a few goes before you get it looking right, but keep clicking undo if you don't get it correct.

4. Looking good! Duplicate this layer... and swap back to the bottom one of the two. Guassian blur this to about 10.0px and colorize it (CTRL + U) to purple.

5. Next, make a new layer at the very bottom of the layers palate (after the background obviously) and grab a soft brush - maybe about 75px, with your foreground to about #006EF2 and do a few spots of colour on the background

6. Time to add fairy dust!! Make a new layer at the very top, click your paintbrush tool (b) and then open the 'brushes' tab (top right hand side) Choose the brush size 3, on the 'brush tip shape' section, make it 1000% spacing, and then 'scattering' section, have it 1000% scatter.

7. Now, with WHITE as your foreground colour, do some brush strokes around the 'circle' part of your abstract, but make sure it goes nothing to the right, only the left.Now, duplicate the layer, and guassian blur the bottom of the two to about 1px.

8. OKokok, now you basically need to do the same.. but... with black as your foreground colour. Just do those fairy dots exactly the same, BUT focus on the back end of the tail this time. Settings your blending options to overlay after.

9. Basically that's the whole tutorial finished with. I added some lines and patterns to finish it off and some other little tweeks. It looks great after though