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Step 6: It gets a little tougher now. Switch to your render layer and Layer > Duplicate it once. Click back to the first render layer and change its blending mode to Linear Burn. Now go back to the top render layer and set its blending mode to Linear Dodge. Then press CTRL+SHIFT+E on the keyboard - this will merge all the visible layers together.

Step 7: Create a new layer on top of the others and do a little more abstract brushing if it is needed. Try not to brush the render, but around it to bring out the background. This is an optional, but often very necessary step! After you are done brushing, set the layer's blending mode to Overlay. As you can see in my example below, the change is not too revolutionary:

Step 8: Choose Image > Adjustments > Color Balance from the main menu and play around with the options to add a little color to your image. The final color choice is entirely up to you! Here is what I made earlier:

Step 9: Create a new layer on top of the rest, and change your foreground/background colors to colours that match ones already present in your image. In this case I've gone for a dark red and an orangish color - your choices will undoubtedly be very different. Once you have done this, run Filter > Render > Clouds, and change the layer blending mode to Hue, Saturation, or Color - whichever one looks best to you. You can do this more than once and with different colors, but I wouldn't go crazy with it! :) And here is my final result... Not bad!

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that's a great tutorial!! simple to follow. Thanks for that :)

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awesome tutorial. Although i wonder if there is a way that you can create that same effect but using only Photoshop.

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A very informative and helpful tutorial, I'll be playing around with these techniques for a while now:D

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how the heck do u transfer cinema 4d abstract files to photoshop cs3 extended?:mad:
i did all the render settings right but no luck!

someone pls help me out! Thanks:p

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Top notch tutorial. Helps in my study of the abstract photoshop/3D design I am now getting into.
Cheers!

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