IceCream Retro Effect

1. First of all create a new document then fill the background with a soft, light color. I used 400x400 and filled the background with #e2dfed.

2. Now get the Rectangular Marquee Tool -

Near the top of Photoshop change the Style to Fixed Size and set the width to 20 px and height to 400 px.

Click on the canvas and drag the selection to the far left. Now move the selection 10 pixels from the left (Shift+Right key)

Now create a new layer and fill the selection with a purple, I used #9e86f4.

Now move the selection 40 pixels to the right and fill the selection with the same color, repeat this as many times as it takes to get to the end of the document.

3. With the lines layer selected, go into Filter > Distort > Polar Coordinates, use the following settings:

Now your lines should look like this:

Now go to Filter > Distort > Twirl, use an angle of about 100.

Lastly with the filters, apply Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur, use a radius of about 1.0-2.0.

4. Change the Layer Mode for the lines later to Color Burn and leave the opacity as it is.

Duplicate the lines layer then rotate it 180° (Edit > Transform > Rotate 180°)

Now lower the opacity to about 70% and change the layer mode to Vivid Light.

5. For a nice touch I added in some white grunge, I just used the Rough Round Bristle brush that comes with Photoshop.

Lastly I added text, the font I used as always is called 4990810.

If you want the PSD file for something, you can download it here.

Thanks for reading.