Swirling night sky filter

Use the Swirling night sky filter to give a surreal look to your image by adding brushstrokes and pops of color. Here's how you can do it in Photoshop.

Swirling night sky filter is available as a Photoshop quick action

  1. You can access the Discover Panel in Photoshop using the search icon at the upper right of the interface. Alternatively, you can use the Cmd/Ctrl + F keyboard shortcut or choose Help > Photoshop Help from the menu bar.

  2. In the Discover Panel dialog box, navigate to the Browse > Quick Actions section and scroll down to the Swirling night sky quick action. 

  3. Click the Apply button and you will see that your image appears dreamlike and livened up with dashes of color and brilliant brushstrokes.  

    Note:

    To try on a different layer, select the one you want from the Layers panel, then click Refresh.

  4. You can further refine your action on the image by going to Filter > Neural Filters and choosing from Presets and adjusting the Strength, Style Opacity, and other details. 

  5. Click the Revert button to undo the quick action's steps all at once. Click Browse more quick actions to choose from a variety of quick actions you can apply to your image.

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