Flowing Colored Grids

• The Dragonfly Sine dots Filter required for this tutorial can be downloaded here.  Unzip to your plug-in filter folder in Adobe Photoshop.  You will find it in the Filters Menu when you load Photoshop.
• Download this image for this tutorial
• Have an 18 X 18 pixel grid in your patterns made from this tutorial

1. Open up your hibiscus flower in Photoshop. Duplicate the background by right clicking on the background layer on the layers panel and selecting duplicate layer.

2. Highlight your background copy. Click Filter=> Dragonfly=> sine dots. Set the sinedots to Turbulence. If Turbulence is missing, use the setting as follows:

• 1st dimension: 6.92, 4.26, 3.71, 2.73
• 2nd dimension: 5.24, 2.17, 3.57, -0.49
• Balance X= 0.5, Balance Y = 0.5, Density = 0.5
• options Check inverse.

3. Set the layer mode to Difference on the background copy. This will make your image appear mostly black.

4. Click Edit => Fill. Set the fill to the following:

• Contents use: Pattern
• Select the pattern for your square grid, about 18 X 18 pixel square.
• Mode = Normal
• Opacity = 100%
• Preserve Transparency unchecked.

The black grid will appear white in the difference mode.

5.  Click Filter=> Dragonfly => sine dots. Set the sign dots preset to Nice and uncheck the option for inverse.

• 1st dimension: -5.09, 0.91, 3.71, 2.87
• 2nd dimension: 0.76, 1.33, -1.33, 0.91
• Balance X = 0.5, Balance Y = 0.5, Density = 0.5
• Options UNCHECKED inverse

6. Insert a new layer by clicking the icon on the bottom of the layers panel. While holding down simultaneously the ctrl, alt, shift key press the letter e (ctrl alt shift E)

 7. Click Filter=> Distort=> Polar coordinates.

• Set the options from polar to Rectangular

8. Click Edit => Transform=> Flip Vertical.