Creative Effects Challenge No. 16 - The Hollywood bowl effect

Here is another quick & fun effect from davrodigital called the Hollywood bowl effect.  Even though it is presented in Photoshop, everything having to do with achieving the effect applies without modification to Elements.

There is one important detail that I must tell you about before you get started however!

Besides showing how to achieve the effect, he is also making an action for the effect, and actions can not be made in Elements.  So, while the entire video is 10:48 minutes long, the actual steps for creating the Hollywood bowl effect begin at 2:15 minutes, and end at 5:15, or just 3 minutes total, so it really is quite short!  You may wish to view the second half of the video later to get additional ideas for modifying the effect but it is not at all necessary.

Here is my application of the Hollywood bowl effect to an image I found on Pixabay:


Have fun stylizing your images and I look forward to seeing them!  Because this effect is so easy to apply, there are bound to be creative extensions, so please share those too!

P.S.
If you are using Photoshop and actually make this action, I hope you will share it with us!  Just let me know and we will figure out how to make it available.