Fractured Portal

This image is made from a fractal that I made a while ago, but I never got around to doing much with it until now. I think I was thinking of using it as a Christmas image, but since I got around to it now, I hope I was able to get rid of most of the Christmas colors from it. I did use some effects that I haven't used in a long time, and others that I have rarely used at all, except maybe my first images since I was experimenting. Anyway, here is Fractured Portal.

Some of the first effects I used was Twist, which I haven't used since I started using PDN since it looked tacky. I used it in a good sort of way this time to make it kind of look like a tunnel, then duplicated it and rotated it a bit. I then used Polar Inversion, Tile Reflection, and Radial Blur to add some color and texture to the outside of the "portal" and just to help the image out a bit. I finished with another inverse Polar Inversion to make a sort of circle around the middle, and then used Reflect to kind of hide it a bit. I also flattened the image, and used that to make that section. Most of the image is blended with Negation and Additive, with one Screen and Overlay layers. Enjoy, and I'll hopefully see you here again soon.