Make a "Wave" with Paint.NET

[Europe]

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1. New Image (I’ve took 500x500)

2. Clouds

3. Clouds (Modus Difference)

4. Pencil Sketch (Size 20, Range 20)

5. Zoom Blur (100)

6. Twist (Twisting amount 20, Quality 5)

7. Duplicate Layer

8. Twist (Twisting amount -40, Quality 5)

9. Set Layer Mod to Lighten

10. Flatten Image

11. Open Curves and cooler the image

12. Save

13. Finished

Tutorial by Europe, Screenshots by cjmcguinness

[Extra]

Wow.

Let's see.

Simple tut,

quick to create,

endless possibilities,

I say this is a great tut!

[Down]

Wow, that looks great.

[six]

Down, has anyone told you your sig is sexy?

I did a lot of extra effects. It's a link to the full thing btw (@500x500) and I messed with layer blending modes on it to get the right effect. There was one with screen, one with darken, one with reflect then one with glow. It accented the blue nicely.

[Rick Brewster]

That's actually pretty dang cool.

Before you flatten, play with rotating the top layer (w/ Move Selected Pixels )

[gdaysoccer]

cool

[Silver.]

This tutorial must be stickied!Its friggin awesome

[Down]

Thanks, six!

Heres what I got:

Ghost Tornado!!

[six]

Shoom!!1

Yours is mucho better. lulz

[Illnab1024]

Holy jesus this is pretty!

With a little polar to rect ()

[Chameleon]

Nice, easy effect! Thanks!

[natjo1986]

Here's my turn at it.

What I did different was for the clouds :Clouds: I set scale and roughness to max, and after setting the curves :Curves: for color I then used BoltBaits portrait plugin to soften the image up.

The original is at 1152 x 864, I resized it because at that resolution it was 2.6 MB in png format.

[Joost]

Thats awsome!

Ill try it sometime

[Crazy Ninja]

My results with a little bit of relief added.

[Im-a-n00b-at-art]

:shock: THATS AMAZING :shock:

gdaysoccer, I think yours is the best.

[Florann]

Pretty cool.

Mine result:

[Europe]

There are many possibilities to change, but I've took the easiest version.

Thx for the good Evaluations

[Joost]

I kinda like it

[timetwister2]

Wow, awsome and very easy !

here's mine:

[TheThunderlord]

That really is amazing. A quick and easy to do set of instructions that produces an amazing effect. I messed with the curves under RGB and came up with this. I don't remember exactly what the curve levels were.

EDIT:I got a very similar result by using the following curves:

[Down]

Interesting...Try messing around with it.

[jpope]

Hey, this is pretty cool. Great tut.

[Extra]

jpope just made this tut even cooler.

[Squ1rrel]

i dont really know what to do with step 4.....

Quote:

4. Pencil Sketch (Size 20, Range 20)

Confused can someone help me?^^

[SVL]

i dont really know what to do with step 4.....

4. Pencil Sketch (Size 20, Range 20)

:? can someone help me?^^

It's an effect in the newest version. Make sure you're fully updated.