Kaleidoscope Tutorial
I'm in the middle of making a tutorial on how I made this kaleidoscope, but I'm only halfway through organizing it. If you track comments, I'll notify you when it's done (probably Tuesday evening Alaska time)
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Yeah, my tutorial is done. Here is the link to the Kaleidoscope Tutorial album on my Picasa account. As you can see, this was done on a Mac. The functionality of Photoshop should be the same on Windows. It may seem cumbersome, but after doing a few, you can do a quick on in about 10 minutes. The only problem, you can get addicted and do dozens of variations. Here are the individual steps on the tutorial:
Start with any image with edges, contrast, and color
Make a canvas larger than your image by about 200% in each dimension (under Image on menu bar)
Make a rectangular selection marquee
Transform selection
Rotate selection 30º or a divisor of 360
Select intersect mode of selection tool
Intersect a rectangle with the rotated selection to make a triangle
Transform selection to move marquee where you want to
Copy selection
Paste selection twice
Make background invisible by clicking on eye in Layers Window
Flip the top layer vertically
Align the triangles with Move Tool
Merge the layers
Select All and Copy
Paste twice
Transform top layer and rotate 60º
Transform next lower layer and rotate -60º
Align the three triangles with Move Tool
Merge visible
Select All, Copy, Paste, and Flip Horizontal
Align two halves, merge visible, and Voilà
Those of you on Windows machine have the option of download a kaleidoscope plug-in. You can check it out by using the Google search words: Mehdi Kaleidoscope. I know nothing about it, how much it costs if anything, or how well it works.
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