Luminance twirls

Remember my tutorials are a guideline only, feel free to give it your own twist
What do we need:
Filters: Mura's Meister: Copies
             VM Distortion: Radiator II & Radiator III
              Graphics Plus: Emboss
              Toadies: Weaver
And a tube
I used one from ©Sarah Pauline @ Digital art heaven
Let's get busy


Open a new canvas 900x500 transparant.
Copy and paste your tube as a new layer.
Mura's meister copies, wallpaper rotate, default settings
Adjust, blur, gaussian blur : 7
Effects, VM Distortion, Radiator III, Default settings.


Copy and paste your tube as a new layer.
Move to the left, set blendmode to luminance legacy & opacity to 50%
Merge down.
Crop merged opaque.
Effects. Graphics plus, emboss, default settings


Copy and paste your tube as a new layer.
Image, mirror.
Effects, Toadies, weaver, default settings
Effects. Graphics plus, emboss, default settings
Move to the right.


Add a new layer.
Make a custom selection:
top 190. left 0. right 900, bottom 200.
Flood fill with white.Duplicate this layer and make the top one invisible in your layer palette
Select none


Activate the original white line.
Effects, VM Distortion, Radiator III, Default settings.
Adjust, blur, gaussian blur: 4
Effects, Distortion effects, twirl = 720


Copy and paste your tube as a new layer.
Image, mirror.
Move to the right, i resized mine by 80%, add shadow to your likings.


Make the duplicate white line layer visible again.
Effects, VM Distortion, Radiator II, Default settings.
Adjust, blur, gaussian blur :4
If this layer doesn't compliment your tube, or just isn't showing pretty, you can move it to your likings until it fits :)


Layers, merge visible, crop merged opaque.


Copy the image, it will stay on the clipboard.
Image, add borders, 2 pix black
Image, add borders, 20 pix any color but black
Select the colored border with your magic wand, feather & tolerance = 0
Paste into selection
Effects, VM Distortion, Radiator III, Default settings.
Adjust, blur, gaussian blur : 4
Select none


Image, add borders, 2 pix black
Resize your tag and then add copyright & license info & your name

And you are done
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.



Written 24 april 2015
Sandra