Cracked Ice
1. Create a new document 400x400 pixels with white background. Press D to reset colors to black and white.
2. Select another foreground color instead of black, I've chosen blue (like ice :). Then select the gradient tool and the radial gradient. Make a gradient from the middle of the document to the bottom. You should now have a circle shaped gradient.
3. Go Filter > Pixelate > Crystallize and choose a cell size of 30 pixels. Now your picture should look like this:
4. Right click on the layer in the layers panel and duplicate it. On the new layer go Filter > Stylize > Find Edges and your picture should look like this:
5. Chose the "Magic Wand Tool" and select Anti-aliased and unselect contignous. Have the tolerance at 0-20, i used 0 but i think around 10 makes the best result. Click on the white area and press delete delete. Now your picture should look like this:
6. Go Filter > Blur > Blur to make the edges just a little bit smoother.
7. You are now finished! Your result should still look very much like the pic above. To change color make it all to one layer by going Layer > Flatten Image. Press Ctrl + U to bring up the Hue/Saturation settings then change color. If you want to make it look like some sort of alien egg just invert with Ctrl + I.
Comments
- Written by paul escudero | Sun, 25 Jun 2006, 02:41
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very nice indeed!! i can now show this to my class and even impress them! thanks a lot for your wonderful and easy to follow tutorials!! keep it up guys!!
- Written by MIguel | Sun, 25 Jun 2006, 16:10
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A simple and great tutorial. Thanks
- Written by Dayae Jeong | Sun, 25 Jun 2006, 18:59
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nice! simple and pretty!
- Written by Kamlesh jejure | Mon, 26 Jun 2006, 12:18
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This is the great tips & very simple. Thanks for giving the great information.
- Written by web designer india | Mon, 26 Jun 2006, 14:27
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nice and simple tutorial
- Written by SvenTheViking | Mon, 26 Jun 2006, 18:27
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Put shoe on head!
- Written by sampson | Tue, 27 Jun 2006, 05:59
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I think it looks good, but I think the blue inside the center is a little too high in satuation
- Written by John | Tue, 27 Jun 2006, 19:38
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I've seen this before... Did you move this from an old site? - J
- Written by Simon Jonsson | Wed, 28 Jun 2006, 07:56
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Same site, new design. Was removed from good-tutorials when my site was down a long time ago.
- Written by Brandon | Thu, 29 Jun 2006, 19:49
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The first picture reminds me of one of those color wheels or something for color selection or something like that. =D
- Written by baloche | Sun, 09 Jul 2006, 02:45
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vraiment trop laid ca ressemble a rien
- Written by The Youngin | Thu, 13 Jul 2006, 06:51
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Hi! I am a...er..-cough- Really young, younger than 13...yea, and I'm buying a website soon. This is a very easy tutorial for anybody to follow, and has a nice affect too. This affect would be great for winter!
- Written by dasdas | Mon, 24 Jul 2006, 22:59
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where to hell is grandier tool?????
- Written by PP | Tue, 05 Sep 2006, 10:33
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I think it looks more like a broken glass,then it's cracked ice...just my opinion :)
- Written by Chris | Sat, 14 Oct 2006, 02:20
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It looks real, but someone please help me. Where it says "select the white area"...where is the white area? I just selected any white area between the blue, then pressed the button (delete) on the keyboard, twice. the the blue just ended up fading away. I could never get to the last picture. someone PLEASE help me!
- Written by Vincent | Sun, 05 Nov 2006, 12:30
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Fantastic tutorial. Only word i could say thanks!
- Written by Danushka Lahiru Kumara | Tue, 07 Nov 2006, 08:45
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This Site is very good for the people who is need to learne more about Photoshop
- Written by gt ss | Wed, 15 Nov 2006, 18:40
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I have the same problem as chris Where it says "select the white area"...where is the white area? I just selected any white area between the blue, then pressed the button (delete) on the keyboard, twice. the the blue just ended up fading away
- Written by Simon Jonsson | Wed, 15 Nov 2006, 19:05
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The white area is just anywhere where it's white. Between the blue lines or in the corners of the canvas. If the blue fades away try with different settings for the magic wand tool.
- Written by Euan | Tue, 19 Dec 2006, 21:48
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Did you forget to uncheck contignous? That might be the problem. And you're only supposed to press Delete the once.
- Written by bharathi ganesh | Thu, 01 Mar 2007, 11:34
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excellent !
- Written by lampa | Thu, 01 Nov 2007, 22:09
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It doesnt look like a crack... and the colors are ugly...
- Written by Gaxton | Mon, 03 Dec 2007, 18:04
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Nice tutorials men, simple and plain
- Written by yuji | Sun, 02 Mar 2008, 04:49
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grat!!! tanks for tutorial..it's first time use adobe^^
- Written by batool | Mon, 03 Mar 2008, 10:28
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i enjoyed of your designs.thank you very much.
- Written by hhahahaha | Mon, 24 Mar 2008, 16:39
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looks like pooo!
- Written by Juveri | Sat, 31 May 2008, 08:19
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Thanks for u'r tutorial.
- Written by pKwDIA | Sun, 01 Jun 2008, 14:32
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its look so fun!! it just for fun!! haha! thank u for givin it!
- Written by Tim | Fri, 13 Jun 2008, 10:34
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Photorealistic? Not at all.. Looks like something my mom could have done... ;)