[mikethedj4]

Click Here: For Video Tutorial!!!

Part 1: (The Circles)
1) Make sure your Foreground, and Background colors are black and white.
2) Select your gradient tool, and change the shape to Radial and the repeat to Triangular Wave.
3) Now give that layer a small gradient.


Part 2: (The Effect)
4) Duplicate the layer, and add another gradient to that
5) Then change it's layer mode to Difference.


Part 3: (The Coloring)
6) Create a new layer, and fill it with whatever color you'd like.
7) Now change it's layer mode to Overlay.


Final Result:


Member Results:
Oregonian


2-ton


xsamx


Silvertayl


Mokonafanxox


jolie


lylejk

[Oregonian]

Mike, that is really cool. I like it.

When I duplicated the gradient layer and set the layer mode to Difference, I got an entirely black image.

Looking at your layers, I see that the gradients are different on the layers so I changed the gradient on the top layer and got the cool pattern.

Nice, quicky tut.

[mikethedj4]

Thanks, and nice result :mrgreen:

[Oregonian]

I think you missed my message about changing the gradient on the second layer in Part 2.

[mikethedj4]

Oops I updated the tut.

[2-ton]

This was fun and easy. I made all sorts of different patterns but chose this one to post because it has such a three-dimensional look to it full size. I am posting a colored one, although the unsaturated one was more 3 dimensional looking.

[Silvertayl]

This tut is simple and a lot of fun, thanks Mike. Here's my first results:













Sorry I know they're large :!:

[jolie]

I love this stuff. I remember being laughed at in a GIMP vs Photoshop discussion when I said I'd miss GIMP's gradient tool if I couldn't use GIMP anymore. :roll:

Made this in a simular way, although it was a while back and don't remember exactly....

Gradient not at radial but ??? But made two layers and used a layer mode to get the effect. :)

[mikethedj4]

Lots of nice results there Silver, and loving the colors of you result jolie, very eye catching.

Try and tweak the effects and maybe use a liner gradient on the 2nd layer.

[2-ton]

One of the samples made me think of an alien eye!
The all-seeing eye...

[mikethedj4]

That's pretty cool, and trippy, nice work.

[2-ton]

it was Silver's sample, all I did was add the eyeball, which is merely one of the gradients.

[mikethedj4]

Yeah I noticed that, it's just the way the eye moves makes it trippy, but yet cool.

I dig these results.

[jolie]

Mine's not technically a result as i made it months ago. But posted it here because I used a simular technique. I never started with black and white.

[Oregonian]

Jolie, yours looks like a cw and ccw spiral gradient, on above the other and a layer mode.

I did one that way and used edge detect > edge on a duplicate layer and another layer mode. Results are kind of similar to yours. I should have blurred it a bit to get rid of those rough edges.



EDIT LATER: Blurred the edge detect > edge (Sobel) with Gaussian blur of 2 before merging it down. Still rough looking. Funny, it looks better in GIMP than in here.

[jolie]

Did you tick adaptive supersampling (I think it's called?) That usually does the trick for me. :) Unless the rough edges are caused by the layer mode you use.

[Oregonian]

jolie said:

Did you tick adaptive supersampling (I think it's called?)

Aha! That did a much nicer job. I've wondered what that did, now I have a bit of a clue. Thanks for the tip.



LATER EDIT: This one looks more like the one you made. I used Horizon 1 & 2 for the gradients and Difference for the layer mode.

In preview mode in here it looks rough. In gimp, even zoomed in it looks smooth. It's a png ... ???

[jolie]

Only one line though. Weird. :?

[Oregonian]

Here's a second go at it. I tried increasing the resolution to 300x300. Putting it to the right of the first one so they can be compared.



Looks like increasing the resolution doesn't help. Both are png's.

LATER EDIT: This is weird. I shut down my browser and restarted it and they look much better. The one on the right with the higher res looks better than the one on the left to me.

[jolie]

Maybe it's just the layer mode you use and how the colours react?
Or what colours you use? Or how you draw the gradient?
Maybe I got lucky?