Ocean's Eye

Ever since getting the iOS app called Frax, things have been getting interesting for me on my end. I looked at a few fractals and thought of how I'd like to manipulate them. I usually try to keep some aspects of the fractal in the image, but this one kind of deviated far from the original fractal created. Part of the background on the right has some aspect of the original, but not much. Here I give you the image I call Ocean's Eye.

I created this on a 4K canvas again, due to the strange dimensions I got this created with. I then started with the initial fractal, and distorted it with Dents and Gaussian Blur. I decided at that point to do a Polar Inversion on the far left, so that I can get some closer texture on the far right. At that point I thought it might be easier to do things without the black background on the fractal, so using Magic Select, I selected the black of the initial fractal, adjusted the tolerance of the selection, and then redid the Gaussian Blur and Dents.

What I did next was I copied that onto a large square blank canvas, and did Radial Extruder. I then placed that in the image on the bottom left side. I decided next I would make a slightly different background than usual, and did Radial Blur on the blurred and dented fractal, and apply dents slowly going out from the middle, to add some texture. I aligned the Radial Extruder layers on to the Radial Blur parts, and blended it all together with Overlay and Color Dodge and Additive.

I realized at this point that the background didn't have much on it, so I decided to do my classic smooth background with the blurred and dented fractal using Radial Blur in two locations, merging the layers, and doing one last Radial Blur to put it all together. I then moved the layer back a few layers, adjusted the opacity of the Radial Extruder layers, and called it done. Hope you enjoyed this image, and something I've started doing was adding the original fractal to my Facebook and Instagram accounts. Check them out to see the original image as well as the distortion. Have a good rest of your day!