In this tutorial you will learn how to create a nice digital flower from scratch. It is also a good tutorial to learn about blending mode and Filter effect!

Step 1: Create a new document, press D and X to reset your colors. Fill your background with Black

Step 2: Press Ctrl-J to duplicate your Background and go to Filter>Render>Lens Flare and set Brightness about 130% and select Movie Prime

Step 3: Go to Filter>Distort>Twirl and use a small angle

Step 4: Select the Move Tool and click on the Show Transform Controls (on the top toolbar) and scale it down to a narrow line

Press Enter to leave this mode

Step 5: Duplicate this layer by pressing Ctrl-J and rotate it 90^o by going to Edit>Transform>Rotate 90^oCW

Step 6: Change the blending mode of this layer to Screen to remove its black areas

Step 7: Press Ctrl-E to merge this layer down. Now duplicate your new merged layer and rotate it 45^o

Step 8: Change the blending mode of this layer to Screen again and we will have a nice star!

Step 9: Merge this layer down with Layer 1 then go to Filter>Distort>Twirl and use a small angle like we did at step 3

Step 10: Duplicate this layer and go to Filter>Distort>Twirl one more time and use a negative angle to twirl it in the opposite direction

Step 11: Change its blending mode to Screen and now we have a beautiful flower!

Step 12: Merge down this layer and go to Filter>Artistic>Plastic Wrap and use these settings:

Our image will look like this:

Step 13: Go to Layer>Flatten Image to merge all of your layer to one layer (Background layer) and go to Image>Adjustments>Hue/Saturation to color it with these settings:

And now our digital flower will look very attractive!

This is the end of the tutorial, try to make another one for your friends!