Fractal-Turned-Pattern Progress

January 18th

-More adjustments

-More pink, all turquoise gone

January 17th

-Changed green colour

-Added more colour and touched up swirls

January 16th/17th

-Added more swirls and colours, adjusted sizes

January 11th/12th/15th

-Added more swirl shapes using ctrl-shift-t

-Started adding colours (image-adjustments-hue and saturation)

January 10th

-Copied shape 3 times, put a shape in each corner (flipped using edit-transform-flip vertically/horizontally)

-Started brainstorming what pattern to do

January 9th

-Copied merged 4 circle shape once (ctrl-shift-t)

-Resized copy slightly smaller and on more of a angle (tilt more for closed swirl, less for open swirl)

-Used ctrl-shift-alt-t shortcut multiple (40 or more) times to create a swirl

January 8th

-Added 3 slightly smaller circles tilted on an angle to original circle (used "ctrl shift t" keyboard shortcut, resized circles and placed them at an angle)

-Merged 4 circle shape (making shape only thing visible and right click on one of the layers, merge visible)

Before winter break

-Created Ellipse, coloured same as but darker than background

For next steps went into layer-layer style:

-Added slight drop shadow (50% at 120 degrees)

-Added bevel and emboss (inner bevel 100% depth, size 7px and soften 12 px; shading angle 120 degrees, altitude 30 degrees, both opacity 75%)

-Added contour and texture (crinkle texture, 207% and +18%)

-Added gradient overlay (full opacity, 4th gradient option, from darker version of colour to lighter, 113 degrees)