Create Glow Waves in Photoshop

1. Create a new 500x500 pixel document with a background contents of 'transparent', and name it Glow Waves. Now press D and then X and fill the document (with white). Name this layer 'background'. Next, create a new layer and name it 'waves'. Now select the gradient tool and at the top of the screen select reflected gradient. Now press D to set black as your foreground color, then select foreground-to-transparent gradient type. Then click and drag on your document to apply the gradients however you wish. Different thicknesses of gradients create different outcomes. I dragged my gradient tool at different angles anywhere from 1+ centimeter to 1+ inch or less.

2. Next, find edges.

3. Now we will add a plastic wrap. Use settings [Highlight Strength: 15, Detail: 10, Smoothness: 10]. Plastic wrap is used in many abstract art because it adds a neat effect of realism.

4. Now you can add color to the image by, creating a new layer and filling it with a color of your choice. Then set that layers blending mode to 'Color'. There you have a cool looking abstract piece of art. If you wish you can change the background color to black.

Now its a nice looking piece of work and all but looks bare. This is where your own imagination comes to play. You can use some of the other tutorials like the crystal ones for example. I actually used crystal 04 for the upper left appearance. Below is what I came up with.