Tornado with photoshop

A digital tornado can provide an instant impact to any design or image and can easily be created by combining a series of swirls. A tornado can be used to add highlights to a person in a photograph or to provide an eye-catching background for text. You can quickly construct your own personal tornado by using Adobe Photoshop, which is a popular and powerful software for editing graphics and images. Photoshop's wide variety of tools and filters enable you to effectively create multiple layers of beautiful and colorful geometric swirls.

Difficulty:

Easy

Instructions

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     Open Photoshop. Go to "File" in the top main navigation menu and select "New." In the settings box, enter "400 pixels" in both the "Width" and "Height" fields. In the "Background Contents" drop-down list, select "White." Click "OK" to close the settings box.
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     Click the "Default Background and Foreground Colors" button in the "Tools" menu. The foreground color should now be black.
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     Go to the "Layers" window and click the "Create New Fill or Adjustment Layer" button located on the bottom. Select "Gradient" and in the "Gradient" drop-down menu, select the "Foreground to Transparent" option. Click "OK."
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     Go to "Filter" in the main navigation menu. Select "Distort" and click "Wave." In the settings box, choose "Square" in the "Type" section. Click "OK."
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     Go to "Filter" in the main menu. Navigate to "Distort" and select "Polar Coordinates." Leave the default settings and click "OK."
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     Go to "Layer" in the main menu and choose "Duplicate Layer." Click "OK." Go to "Edit" in the main menu and select "Transform." Click "Rotate 90 degrees CW."
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     Go to the "Layers" window and make sure that the layer "Gradient Fill 1 Copy" is selected. Click the "Blending Mode" drop-down menu at the top of the window and select "Overlay."
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     Go to "Filter" in the main menu and select "Distort." Select "Twirl" and enter "136" in the "Angle" field. Click "OK."
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     Go to "Layer" in the main menu and select "Merge Visible." Go back to "Layer" and select "New Layer." Go to the "Layers" window and select your new layer. Click the "Blending Mode" drop-down menu and select "Overlay."
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     Click the "Set Foreground Color" square in the "Tools" menu. Choose what color you want to use for your tornado. Select "Paint Bucket Tool" in the "Tools" menu. Click anywhere on your tornado image to apply your color.

How to make rain on photoshop

Here i am going to show you how to create realistic rain effect using photoshop CS, this tutorial is suitable for immeadiate beginners too,
now the first thing you need is to get a good source image , i used this house which is shown at a kool angle and a dog lookin out of the window supposedly because it is raining



dublicate the layer ( press Ctrl+J ) or just drag the layer to the create new layer button at the bottom of layers tool box ,

now go to Image > Image Adjustments > Levels and make your settings as shown in the image below ...



even tough the image we have is already dark ,that would have given the image the necessary dark appearance as you would have on a rainy day ..

the next step is to create rain
create a new layer (Shift+CTRL+N) with a white background and name it rain for easy reference later

now go to Filter > Noise > Add Noise and make your settings as shown in the image below ....



now go to Filter > Blur > Motion Blur and make your settings as shown in the image below ....





now go to Image > Image Adjustments > Levels and make your settings as shown ....



go to layers pallet and change your blending mode to screen
well we got it raining already but i just want it to rain more heavily so make another copy of the rain layer, set the blending mode to screen on this layer too
and go to Edit > Transform > Rotate 180 degrees clockwise and reduce the opacity of the layer to around 82,
now with the topmost layer selected press Crl+E to merge the two top layers

now it rains but we dont have any wind , so our rain is not realistic yet , now go to Filter > Distort > Twirl and make the settings as shown below ....



and here is my final image , it rains doesnt it ??





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