Glowy Swirl Tutorial

[Kaddl89]

I've made the lines a little thinner an flipped/rotated them

Looks like a abstract flower I think:)

Thanks or the tut flip

I think I can use for more Ideas I have...

[Romur]

That is a nice trick

You get a better result with Distort/Twist if you ran Distort/Sin Waves before. Otherwise, the extremities of the swirl remain “flat”, especially with a low distortion. But I’d just like to mention that you can work around if you do not have the Sine Waves plugin.

The solution is to add a new layer on top and make a radial gradient with primary color fully transparent and the secondary colour black. This layer will hide the extremities of the swirl as shown below (left without sin wave and without mask; right without sin wave but with the mask).

With a higher distortion (like the galaxy) this default does not show and the sin wave pre-processing is not necessary.

[phamduongthai]

That is a nice trick

You get a better result with Distort/Twist if you ran Distort/Sin Waves before. Otherwise, the extremities of the swirl remain “flat”, especially with a low distortion. But I’d just like to mention that you can work around if you do not have the Sine Waves plugin.

The solution is to add a new layer on top and make a radial gradient with primary color fully transparent and the secondary colour black. This layer will hide the extremities of the swirl as shown below (left without sin wave and without mask; right without sin wave but with the mask).

With a higher distortion (like the galaxy) this default does not show and the sin wave pre-processing is not necessary.

Nice tut. Thanks so much ^^ It took me a while to figure things out, though :">

[Rixo]

Cool. I got this.

[xmariusx]

I love this tutorial. Thanks!

[ventor1]

I love this tut! Not for what it is; but rather for the doors that it opens!

Edited January 6, 2011 by ventor1

[Skyrocker]

This is a very nice tutorial, and btw, this is what i made using this tutorial.

[Jimster1244]

I really liked this tutorial so i created a account to show you what things i made from this, the last 2 are for a friends logo.

[Darthpyro]

With a bit of work, here is mine;

Lots of twists and bulges used here.

Edited February 15, 2011 by Darthpyro

[mattz1996]

I haven't used PDN in a while but here's my attempt your last pic:

[mii55]

Nice. Great tut.

As some of you know I am a newbie so this is really cool for me

[Moninca]

Amazingly simple, and amazingly beautiful. Thanks for the tut!

Edited June 14, 2011 by Moninca

[weej16]

Love The Tutorial! Here is my try!

[IsM4thrill]

Guys please i need help with the Sine waves!!!! I just can't get it corect...... Iv'e downloaded it and put it in the Paint.net effects but when i go in to paint.net i just don't have it in the distort list.......

[IsM4thrill]

Ok love the tutorial, actually this is my first time to get complete something

Edited August 5, 2012 by IsM4thrill

[nitenurse79]

Great tute

After making five swirls on seperate layers, I flattened all the swirl layers, duplicated it, flipped horizontal then run twist on each of the two layers before using conditional hue/saturation. This is what I came up with

[Krutch-it]

Um.I have one problem: all of the gradients I have/install take up the whole selection. Like:

I can't get it to resize how I want, they a;ll just automatically take up the whole area. I've installed 3 different gradient packs/plugins.

Am I missing something, or is there a different plugin I need?

[AGJM]

Um.I have one problem: all of the gradients I have/install take up the whole selection. Like:

-snip-

I can't get it to resize how I want, they a;ll just automatically take up the whole area. I've installed 3 different gradient packs/plugins.

Am I missing something, or is there a different plugin I need?

Before you make the gradient, open up all of the windows.  The color, the tabs, the tools, the history.  Now, look at the color tab - look at your primary and secondary colors.  The secondary should have a gradient fading into a checkerboard.  If it doesn't, you go ahead and make it by swapping the secondary (or just swapping to black), clicking the "More >>" arrow, going to transparency, and dragging it all the way down.  After that, you go to your "Tabs" window (this part you might understand already) and add a new tab, and do as the tutorial says.  

Should work.  

[NekoSync]

How do you make the background of the swirls transparent? I used magic wand on the background and CTRL + X but it gets rid of the entire thing!

[Visual]

I like the expirementation. I do not like reading the offensive tones of some of the comments i will not exibit. You need to fill the brains with your experience, rather than to insult this as too basic. Crawl before you can run 100 yards in 9 seconds.

 

Good job.

[SAND33P]

This is a great tut, i will definitely be giving a go at making something like this. The use of colour is perfect

[FFSnipe]

Hrm... i know this topic is old, but its still on page 1. I have been tinkering with paint.net for a long while, and I am self taught. I decided to step up my game and read some tuts to become more talented. I am still quite noobish but I am trying.

 

Here is my attempt at with this. I added some more steps afterwards, such as shape3d to make the flowers look as though they are blooming upwards. The flowers themselves were made from this technique.

AbstractRoses

http://i.imgur.com/oPtdzZX.png

Edited October 8, 2013 by FFSnipe

[barbieq25]

Very nice Sand33p & very clever FFSnipe.