Step 1:
Create a new file in Photoshop (File>New) with any size that you want, make sure it is a perfect square. If you want to make it a wallpaper

or something like that, then make it 1024×1024 and then cut it up. Make sure your background is white.

Step 2:
Select the gradient tool from the toolbox (or press g). Make sure it is a linear gradient, the gradient picker is set to Foreground to

Background. and the blend mode is set to Difference. Press D on the keyboard to reset the pallette colours to black foreground and white

background.

Step 3:
Go wild. Keep drawing gradients on the image about 20 to 30 times..

Step 4:
Duplicate your layer by going to Layer>New>Layer via copy or by pressing Ctrl+J. Rename the newly created layer “wave”.

Step 5:
Click and select the original layer (not warp) and go to Filter>Distort>Twirl. Give it a twirl of about 340 or so.

Step 6:
The Click and select the “wave” layer and go to Filter>Distort>Wave and use the settings given below. You can try your own but these worked for me. Click Randomise a few times till you find it desirable. then click ok.

Step 7:
Set the blend mode in the layers pallette for the ‘wave’ layer to “lighten” and then merge the two layers together by Pressing Ctrl+E or by

going to layers>Merge down.

Step 8:
Duplicate the layer and go to Edit>Transform>Flip Horizontal. Change the blending mode of the new layer to Lighten.

Step 9:
Then hit ctrl+U or Image>Adjustments>Hue/Saturation to bring up the hue/saturation box. Select colourise and then play around with the colour

settings. I used:
Hue: 0
Saturation: 25
Lightness: 0

Step 10:
Now select the other layer and go to the Hue saturation menu again.
Select colourise and change the settings again. I used:
Hue: 220
saturation: 25
Lightness: 0

Step 11:
Merge the two layers together by pressing Ctrl+E and that’s it. The end result is totally random but here’s mine:

Step 1:

Start a new document of size 200×200 pix. Use the foreground colour as #000000 and background colour as #3B3B3B. Use the gradient tool and do a gradient fill as background.

Step 2:

Now change the foreground to #FFFFFF and background to #BABABA. Create a new layer select the Eleptical Marquee Tool(M) , draw an Elipse and do a gradient fill like this.

Step 3:

Now this is a tricky step select the Rectangular Marquee Tool (with the elipse still highligted on the canvas the oval still selected). Hold the Alt key and deselect half of the elipse by drawing a rectangle on the top half of the elipse.

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Step 4:

Go to Edit>Transform>Perspective and move the highlighted box to right like this

Step 5:

Now create a new layer and draw eyes to the face. Draw an elipse in the same way done previously and fill it with black colour and apply some bevel to it. Then duplicate the layer and transform the eye by pulling it right to get an right eye.

Use the following bevel and Emboss to the eyes.

Result:

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Start a new document of size 300×300 px. Create a new layer and draw a rectangle using the rectangular marquee.

Now fill the rectangle using the following gradient. You will get something like this.

Now we need to make a sharp tip for the bar. To do this go to Edit>Transform>Perspective. Here you need to pull the down block that is show here in orange to it’s right so that we get a sharp head.

Now we need to twist the cone in order to get the tentacle effect. To do it go to Filter>Distort>Shear.

Use the following settings now.

This is what I got.

It’s done you can duplicate the layers to get more tentacle and you can add more effects to it too.

This is what I got as my final result.