Force Explosion (Part 2/3) - Photoshop CS4 Intermediate+ Tutorial

Learn lots of new tricks as you go through this tutorial on making a "Force Explosion Effect." To be honest, we really don't know if that's a proper title for the effect, but we couldn't think of anything more suitable. Still, it looks amazing!

Need the project files? Download them here!
http://chchcheckit.com/?page_id=706

Original tutorial:
http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials-effects/create-a-powerful-mental-wave-explo...

Road image by mario19 of deviantart:
http://browse.deviantart.com/?q=long%20road&order=9&offset=24#/d1ii35u

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Howto & Style

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• explosion
• force
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[xJoSHeDx]

this is probably a basic question but couldn't you just duplicate the clouds layer a couple of times and change the blend mode on it? :S

[ChChCheckItsClan]

@xJoSHeDx I guess you could, but re-doing the clouds creates a variety of darks and lights overlapping each other, which makes it more interesting =)

[Kirbzy998]

It really would be nice if you included the right Mac buttons for all those shortcuts you do. I get pretty frustrated when I follow these tutorials and having to decipher each shortcut to go with my mac lol.

[ChChCheckItsClan]

@Kirbzy998 - Sorry about that, bro. I don't really know all of the Mac shortcuts, because I never really use one. But of the ones I do know, the Ctrl key is usually swapped with the Cmd key in the Mac shortcuts. Ex, Ctrl+J on a PC would be Cmd+J on a Mac (that's the duplicate shortcut, for those of you who don't know already). Hopefully you'll be able to get things sorted out =)

[HateKidz]

hey 1 question instead of liquify can't i use the sphearize filter ?

[keithcoats16]

would be easier if you just copied the cloud layers, instead of making new ones each time! still good though..

[luisvalenzuela8]

PERFECT

Awesome

i don't have words to describe it

[TheGangsterg09]

hey when i try to do the liquify it dose not turn out the way it should please replie

[DivisionX40]

Great Tutorials :), helped alot thanks :D

[xN1C0x]

Hey i have a bit of a problem, when creating the bubbles glow, the glow doesn't show up, and when i split the two, no new layer is made separating the two

[Inkognitohaloramics]

@ChChCheckItsClan That's true, although flipping it horizontally can also do the trick. Along with inverting the colors on the cloud layer :D

[thejtphotograph]

Perfect second part!

[MichaleGentleman]

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