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.