All-new abstract illustration techniques

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Per Gustafson demonstrates how to make an abstract masterpiece from simple circles.

In this tutorial I will show the Polar coordinates filter techniques I discovered when creating my new series, Renaissance.

As always, in this tutorial I use standard effects in Photoshop - not additional plug-ins - focusing more on how to use them rather than what they do.

It's not tools that make the piece great, but what you do with those tools; it's more about pushing boundaries and trying out new perspectives on techniques.

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