Making a cool looking abstraction.Excellent for CD cover or screensaver.

Here is a nice effect that looks like the sun glinting off a metallic or shiny surface. This starburst effect even includes a little lens flare. A tasteful replacement for the sometimes over used lens flare filter.

Start by creating a new file. Fill the background with black color.
From filter menu select "Render>>Lens Flare ". Apply settings as shown.

Open a new document, it has to be 300x300 or bigger. Hit D on the keyboard.
Go to Filter > Render > Clouds and then Filter > Stylize > Extrude...
Type: Blocks Size: 30 Depth: 30 (random)
Go to Filter > Brush Strikes > Accented Edges...

This lesson tells about that as with the help of filters to make circles on water.

Learn and achieve some basic and advanced abstract brushing techniques that will help you create an attractive star beam wallpaper.

How to create an interesting zoomed vortex from scratch.

Make an electric effect in photoshop.

This tutorial is really just a random effect that I came up with after fiddling around in photoshop, but the end result looks rather nice. It shows you have to create what seems to look like a crystal looking mountain with grass on the walkway.

What's cool and shocking at the SAME time? How about the Electric Liquid effect!