Create a Beautiful Floral Fractal Illustration in Photoshop

This tutorial will show you how to create a beautiful and simple fractal image based on a flower. This is actually impossible with Photoshop’s standard plugins, so we are going to use the stunning Fractal Explorer free filter that is run using the Pixel Bender plugin.

Pixel bender is a free plugin released by Adobe that lets you run filters created using the Pixel Bender programming language. To follow this tutorial you will have to download and install both Pixel Bender and Fractal Explorer. Pixel Bender can only be installed on Photoshop CS4 and CS5. If you have older Photoshop versions, then you won’t be able to install Pixel Bender.

27 Super Creative Photo Effects Tutorials for Photoshop

This article is a showcase of 27 beautiful photo effects covering subjects such as technicolor processing, frozen liquid effects, artistic and digital painting, lighting effects and many other photo manipulation examples that can be applied to your photos or designs. Although most of these tutorials require an intermediate knowledge of Photoshop, beginners will find the step by step instructions useful in their learning experience.