Photoshop Experiment, Fire Orb

This is the completed version of my fire orb.

At the first stage of the creation of the orb i started off by using the elipse tool, holding shift and drawing a circle.

I used these settings to give the circle the glow.

After i applied these layer styles I ended up with this image below.

On another layer i used the brush tool and sed "White" colour and placed white circles around the circle.

I then used Filter > Distort > Twirl to give the below effect.

After that i used the brush tool again and set it to a pre-made bush and shrunk the size of the brush to fit inside of the circle.

After this is used these adjustments of the colour to change the current image to make it more fiery. 

After this I rendered a cloud on a new layer and placed that layer under the circle layer.

i then used the same filter for the brush circles (Filter>Distort>Twirl) to make the cloud spin so that it fit with the direction of the flames.

the end result is that which is above, during the creation of this image i used a tutorial.

hopefully the techniques i used to create this image can be used to help create an advert or digipak for our music video.