Night Vision Explosion
In this tutorial you will learn how to make a pretty neat night vision explosion in just a few steps.

author:
  Ryan
title:
  Night Vision Explosion
date:
  Wed 25 February 2004
category:
  Photoshop Filter Effects
credits:
 


New Document

Make a new document around 400x400 or you can choose your own size, doesnt matter, just make it big! Now press 'D' to reset the pallete colours.



Apply Filter - Difference Clouds

Now we add some difference clouds by going to Filter>Render>Difference Clouds. Now press CTRL+F a
couple of times to repeat the clouds.



Apply Filter - Film Grain

Now we want to add some static to add the effect for night vision Filter>Artistic>Film Grain. Your image should now look similar to this:





Apply Filter - Polar Coordinates

Filter>Distort>Polar Coordinates, make sure Polar to Rectangular is selected. Now press CTRL+F 1 time. Your image should now look like:





Duplicate Layer

Right click the layer and duplicate it. Now change the blending options for the duplicated layer to Lighten. Your layers window shoud look like this:





Appy Filter Crosshatch

Now apply Filter>Brush Strokes>Crosshatch too the duplicated layer. Now press CTRL+F 1 time. Your image should now look like:





Hue/Saturation Settings

Now click the bottom layer "Background" and then now click Cntrl+U to activate the Hue/Saturation window. Use these settings below:


You are now finished! Your image should look similar to this below:



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