Free Photoshop Tutorials, Brushes, Actions and Texture - Patterns

Swirls are not particularly new in design, but seem to be becoming increasingly popular lately. I keep noticing a design technique of replacing regular photos with swirls, but the swirls holding the data of the photo. You can see what I mean from two images recently included in our latest Daily Image Inspiration post:

Today we're going to be achieving something very similar, using just 11 basic steps (hence the ‘mini tutorial'). This tutorial focuses on using a very simple photo, but with a little extra effort you can achieve some amazing results using very complex photographs.