An image of my dog I took a couple month ago. He was swimming in a pond and when he started shaking off the water I snapped away with my camera.
step 2 of 9
Created a channel from the contest image to have a selection
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Placed the selection over the dog's contour and jumped this selection to a new layer.
Note: I forgot to take a snapshot here and I had to recreate this step and the next for this tutorial. So the lines are not at the same spot as in the final image; in case you were looking for clues where the tiles went.
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Bloated this selection a little with Filter->Distort->Spherize
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I tried various methods to move the tiles away from the center but finally had to select/move each every tile by hand.
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Duplicated the final layer and with transform reduced the size to imaginary center of the image.
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Added some Radial Blur with the zoom method to this layer. Duplicated this layer once more and set blending to Multiply making the motion blur stronger
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On the top layer added some layer style with glow and emboss.
step 9 of 9
Almost finished. The final image will have some curves and vibrancy added.