Oil
by Nick Ustinov


Start new grayscale image, white background black foreground. Using type tool type some text (leave some space for oil under it). If you are using Photoshop 4.0, just hit Ctrl-E to merge down the type layer (Cmd-E on Mac)
wpe2E.jpg (3733 bytes) Now, Filter/Blur/Gaussian Blur with setting 1.0
wpe2F.jpg (3110 bytes) Image/Map/Invert
Image/Rotate/90 CW
Filter/Stylize/Wind (Wind/Right)
Image/Rotate/90 CCW
wpe30.jpg (3984 bytes) Filter/Stylize/Solarize
wpe31.jpg (3870 bytes) Mode/Indexed Color
Then Mode/Color Tables..., choose Black Body
Mode/RGB Color
Image/Adjust/Hue/Saturation..., do NOT click Colorize. Set Hue to +15 and Saturation to -15
wpe32.jpg (6464 bytes)

© 1997 Nick Ustinov.