This method can be used in many other ways apart from the kind I'm about to show you. Please note, some of the features found in the software I've have used - Adobe Photoshop CS- may not be available in the lower versions of Adobe Photoshop.
- Open a new work place fairly horizontal. I chose the dimensions- width: 1024 pixels and height 768 pixels. Suit yourself to the kind of page you want to work on depending on how big you want it to be.
- After that, double click the blank sheet on your Layers palette and make it a layer instead of a background
- Once that is done, use the "Paint Bucket" tool and paint the entire page black
- Now, after you have done that, paint a vertical white strip, fairly sized through the middle of your black sheet. If your work place is enormous as compared to this, you would be better off going for a cross shape in the middle. If it is a lot smaller, then use a smaller strip with a smaller diameter through the middle. It depends on how big your black sheet is. I went for a round brush of 50 pixels and chose a cross shape in the middle. Mind you, you don't want a lot of white for this here!
- Now comes a slightly tricky bit, but you'll do fine! Choose the "Smudge" tool and smudge your cross very lightly. You don't want the whole place to be filled with white so don't push it to all the ends. Make it fairly even through the middle of the page. As you can see, I made mine rather wispy.
- Now comes the trickiest bit, but not to fret because I'll put it down for you in a simple manner. On your Menu bar at the top, skim through it and find "Filter". This is where I find some lower versions of Adobe don't have the next feature I'm telling you about. Then, go down the list and find "Liquify".
- After you've found it and clicked it, you should get something like a totally different window that has opened up. On default, the "Forward Warp Tool", at the top, is clicked for you and ready to use, but incase it isn't, you know where to find the "Forward Warp Tool" - at the top. After you've clicked it, squiggle it through your wispy white until you get a liquid like effect. The key thing what you are looking for here is that your white should be more of a grayish black color and should look like liquid mercury. It should look fairly liquid-ish and pretty metallic. Try spreading this evenly now so that it fills the page with the effect. This was how I did it. After you've got your effect, click "OKAY" at the top right. It might take a few moments as a pop up window shows your picture getting "Liquified".
- Now this bit here is a piece of cake. After you have got your liquefied image onto your workplace, click the "Color Replacement" tool. This should be easy especially if you are into such kind of things because it is technically used as the "Red Eye Removal" tool. Then use the tool to your convenience of color. I chose to go for a rainbow effect, and all you do is, paint with the "Color Replacement" tool over your liquefied image.
- For those of you who have an eye for spotting little faults, you can clearly say that where ever there is a lot of white, the color replacement tool hasn't created an effect of the color you wanted it to. So that's a wake up call for you at your "Liquify" stage to avoid as many white spaces as you can and make them gray-ish. And once you have done all what you wanted to, jazz it up with a bit of text or maybe a picture.
- And, oh, wait! You need your final step! It's quite simple. I've basically slotted this step in so that it can complete 10 steps in total. So your final step is- SHOW OFF!
