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1. Open your document. I will use 400x100 for viewing purposes.

2. Press 'D' to reset colors.

3. Filter --> Render --> Clouds



4. Filter --> Distort --> Twirl. Choose a number between 150-350. I chose 250 for my example.



5. Go to Layer --> Duplicate Layer.

6. Go to Edit --> Transform --> Flip Horizontal



7. Change the Blending from Normal to Lighten. Then Press Shift + CTRL + E (merge all) [mine does not look the best, lol. It will change though.



8. Go to Layer --> Duplicate Layer. Then go to Edit --> Transform --> Flip Vertical.




9. Set Blending from Normal to Lighten. Then press Shift + CTRL + E (merge all)



10. Go to Layer --> Duplicate Layer once more. Then go to Edit --> Transform --> Rotate 90 (cw or cww it wont matter)


11. Change Blending from Normal to Lighten. Then, press Shift + CTRL + E (merge all).

12. Press CTRL + U (hue/saturate) and play around with the colors. (BE SURE TO CHECK IN COLORIZE BOX) After checking in colorize box, here is what i used to get my color.
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13. Add a nice three pixel border and you're finished.

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