Feathers

Inspired by a Bulletin Board post by: Phil Desmarais (Phil_The_Rodent)

• 600 px X 600 px
• 72 dpi
• transparent background.
• RGB

2. Draw an vertical oval with your elliptical marquee. Hit your D key to set default colors. Using the paint bucket, fill it with black.

3. Click Select => all. Then Click edit cut, Then Edit =>Paste to center you image on layer 1

4. Filter: Distort: Polar Coordinates: Rectangular to Polar

5. Click edit=> transform and set  the following options

• Y value of 300
• width of 50%
• height of 200 %.
• angle to 180.

6. Duplicate the layer by right clicking on the layer and select duplicate layer.

7. Click Image=> adjust=> Invert

8. Click Edit=>Transform=>Distort setting option to

• y value of 340
• width  90%
• height option to 85%.

9. Filter: Distort: Polar Coordinates: Polar to Rectangular

10. Image: Rotate Canvas: 90 degrees CW

11. Filter: Stylize: Wind: Wind from the right

12. Repeat step 11 (Ctrl-F) 2 times

13. Image: Rotate Canvas: 90 degrees CCW
14.  Filter: Distort: Polar Coordinates: Rectangular to Polar

15. Ctrl-click on layer 1 to make a selection

16. Click Select=>Inverse , hit your Delete key.

17. Deselect All
18. Create a New Layer

19. Make rectangular Marquee selection the length of the white area

20) Fill with black
21. Zoom into the top of this rectangle Edit=>Transform=>Perspective. Move the top outer handles together

22. Select the Move Tool by hitting the V key. Press Shift-down arrow twice to move the selection down.

23. Double click this layer to add layer styles. Click on Bevel and emboss.

• inner bevel
• smooth
• 100% depth
• size 5 px
• soften 0
• angle 122
• altitude 17
• Gloss contour: cone