This effect is very popular among logo designers; you may saw it in many logos before if you are opened to designing field.
It’s not a hard effect to do, just a few steps and effects using some trick and you ready to go.
First step- Create a new document, any size you need cause it doesn’t matter how large your design is, so just go with your expectations or flow my document size which is 300px*300px .
Next you need to make sure that your background is black, so all you have to do is to hit “Ctrl+D” or “D” if you are using Mac.
Then fill you background with black , Hit “alt+delect” if you are using Mac or “Ctrl+backspace” if you are using a Pc I think .
just make sure that your background is black.
Second step- Go to Filters Menu and Follow:
Filter > Artistic > Plastic Wrap: In Plastic Wrap Dialog box settings you need to follow these settings,
20 on Highlight Strength scroll,
15 on Detail Scroll
and 15 on Smoothness .
See attached photo for this step filter .
Next step- Go to Filters Menu and Follow:
Filter > Distort > Polar Coordinates: In Polar Coordination Dialog box settings you need to choose Rectangular to polar choice
See attached photo for this step filter and result.
Next step- A filter step as well so go again to Filters Menu and Follow:
Filter > Distort > Twirl: Now in this filter Dialog box settings you need to adjust the Twirl Angle to 300.
Note : this is step may change from case to case, so feel free to test different Twirl angles until you reach your special swirl effect.
See attached photo for this step filter and result.
Final Step- Applying Colors
You may use your special effect, or here is a hint, Using a hue/saturation, Just click “Ctrl+U” or “Command+U” if you are using Mac,
Or go to Image Menu >> Adjustment then click hue/saturation and chose your color.
If you want to use the same colors i used in my design to have a glowing green swirl effect, you may use this settings: Hue : 90 , Saturation : 37 and Lightness:1 .
Just Make sure that you selected the Colorize Check box.
See attached photo for my final design.
Now you can add your special touches to the design.
After you follow my steps you can go over and redo all these steps, but this time try to change settings on the last 3 steps you will get a different effect, so go ahead and try it.
Easily to do, easily to understood and we have fun after all, right.
That’s all for today until next time, have fun.