Making Prop Swirls in Photoshop

[adlabs6]

A short demo on making swirls in Photoshop

By Adlabs6


1.First make this shape. Very simple to do.



2.Then I use the [Distort:Twirl] filter to do this to the image, vary the amount to change the spiral.



3.Then mask off a circle around the center of the spiral and fill it with white.



4.If you want it to have motion blur, use the [Blur:Radial] filter.



Some of the filters I mention may have different names in your software, just try what looks similar.

[carts]

Crikey! that will save me a lot of trial and error,thanks

[munkeeman]

SON OF A BEEEEAAACCCHHHH...... I spent 2 days messing about with prop swirls last week for my 109 and actually gave up in the end and just used an all white one. And this little nugget of information has been nestling here all along!!! well dont i feel like a right tool now. Thanks adlabs - just off to redo what i failed at befroe