No matter how many interesting effects can be used to create wallpapers and abstract posters in Photoshop, I won’t ever get bored of them, and I hope you won’t either. Now, look below and see what I have prepared for you today. If you like it, read on, if not, then it’s your loss…

1. Create a new document in Photoshop, using the same resolution as your monitor, or a different one, if you don’t want to use it as a desktop wallpaper. I used only 800X600, because I don’t want to create a huge image and then scale it down.

2. Make sure Black and White are the foreground and background colors, and then apply Filter>Render>Clouds.

3. Next, use Filter>Pixelate>Mezzotint, with the type setting switched to Short Strokes.

4. Now, use Filter>Blur>Radial Blur, and the settings below…

5. To get one step closer to the end, twirl the image. To do this, use Filter>Distort>Twirl, and an angle setting of -130(obviously, you can play with this setting as you wish, but that’s what I used to get the result below).

6. Now, duplicate the background layer, and apply Twirl on the new one, with a different angle(I used 180), then set the blending mode for this layer to Lighten.

7. Press Ctrl+U to bring up the Hue/Saturation dialog and add some color to the current layer. Do the same with the one beneath it. Just be sure to check Colorize, then play with the values!

8. At last, simply merge existing layers(Ctrl+E, while the new layer is selected) and try some post-work. In my case, it was only Filter>Sharpen>Unsharp Mask, and the settings below.

I hope you liked today’s tutorial, but be sure to get back tomorrow for more!