Thanks for the reply Helen.
If you mean the one with the black background and yellowy/greeny letters, then yes it says spore and I will do more similar art
In connection with the new artwork (assuming it is the one right at the top): When I am bored I open PDN and mess around with effects that I dont often use. If I think its cool, I open a new picture, go back and repeat the steps (by following the history) and take note of them. Unfortunately, I found that tis was very cool and, in my haste to try to repeat it, I managed to close the original one However, I managed to duplicate the effect, but only to a certain point, this is where I got.
1: Render clouds with a high scale and then flames (not fire) with max settings and check "black and white".
2: Polar transformation (rect to polar) with default settings but max scale.
3: Distort -> Keleidoscope with default settings
4: New layer -> Gradient bars with any colours, settings and alignment on 0.65
5: Set blend mode to overlay and duplicate the layer.
Now I get to the point where I am not sure how I did it but if somebody could help me and tell how this effect was acheived, it would be much appreciated.
6: Flip vertical and invert colours.
7: Duplicate layer, Rotate 90 degrees and use colour balance with 1 slider on full either way
8: This is repeated 3 or 4 times or something until you have a different colour in each quarter.
I hope that helps and that somebody can tell me how I did it.