Plasma Bubbles:

1. New Document (500x500) Fill it with Black. And position two lens flares in the following positions (Filter > Render > Lens Flare) (Use default lens flare settings)



2. Now, go “Filter > Sketch > Chrome” (Detail: 10 | Smoothness: 4)

3. Now, press “Ctrl+I” to invert the colors.



4. Now, duplicate the layer (Layer > Duplicate Layer) and go “Edit > Transform > Flip Horizontal”. Also, set the blending mode to “Linear Burn”



5. Merge those two layers together by selecting the top layer and pressing “Ctrl+E”

6. Now duplicate that layer, (Layer > Duplicate Layer).

7. Ctrl+Click the new layer (It should make a selection around the layer). Right+Click inside the selection, and select “Feather” with a “7” Pixel Radius.

8. Now, right+click inside the selection again, and click “Select Inverse” and press “Delete” 3 times.

9. Now, press “Ctrl+T” and rotate the layer so that it’s the bubble’s are facing up, as indicated in the picture.



10. Now, Change the blending mode of that layer to “Linear Burn”



11. Now Press “Ctrl+L” to bring up the levels, and use these settings, or adjust them to your liking.





12. Now duplicate the layer, and go “Filter > Sketch > Chrome” (Detail: 0 | Smoothness: 10) and set the blending mode to “Linear Burn”



13. Now, for the final step, go “Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Color Balance” and use these settings:

Midtones:

Color Levels: -100 | 0 | 0

For Highlights:

Color Levels: -50 | 0 | -50

(Make sure “Preserve Luminosity” is checked)



You’re Done!

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I got up to 7. And then encounted this problem. When I right clicked the selected area, 'Feather' Wasn't available from the list as shown here

Any suggestions?

From the looks of your picture it seemed like you had the paint bucket tool selected. I just went into photoshop and tried doing it with that selected and it gave me the same thing. Try having the marquee tool selected before right clicking.

(Also, make sure that you rotate the image before trying to feather it, or else it wont let you click feather :P)

Hope this helped :DanceDance?:

Yeah it helped. Still managed to do something wrong... Anyway It doesn't look to bad even with the slight mistake.

I really like that one Red.

oky having problems with my signature so help? =)

your using html or something, not BBC Code

copy this

and that should work

o.o its based on the tutorial... i think


:DanceDance?:

Woah. That's cool. Freaky. But cool none the less ^_^

I can't click the 'Feather' option =)

I had that problem too, just goto Select, Modify, Border, set that to 1 pixel, then feather it (you wont have to invert it either) and that's how i got it

looks nice guys :D