Does anyone know of a good Photoshop CS tutorial on how to make tie-dye patterns?

There should be something that you can create a gradient, I'm pretty sure it has a rainbow colored one, you can use that, I don't have photoshop anymore so i don't remember much about it

Perhaps if you gave us a better idea of what you want to use it for .. for example, a full screen abstract .. or .. just a smaller piece of the whole .. It's possible you might be happy with a kaleidoscope effect .. perhaps with a little gaussian blur to simulate the 'bleed' of the dye ..

Assuming you have a more recent version of Photoshop .. create two or more full screen layers of nice kaleidoscope images, using different, but complimentary colors .. then, using the layer styles, blend them using whatever gives you the effect you're looking for .. if this begins to give you the results you are looking for, don't be bashful about throwing a couple full color layers into the mix and blending them as well, using the layer styles

kaleidoscope is a FREE plugin (as are all the items listed on the left, except the top one) .. feed it anything and it will spit out a mangled version of it ..

back to the Gaussian blur .. if you duplicate a layer, so that you now have two, apply a Gaussian blur of, maybe 5 - 10 to the original (bottom layer) and set the top layer to OVERLAY in the layer styles .. and you will have a "soft-focus" special effect .. suitable for almost any portrait or picture .. if you like soft-focus .. not everybody does

enjoy ..

oh! .. send me cookies .. thanks

or ... bear in mind people's idea of tie dye differs .. but .. I was there, man

Photoshop: TYE DYE EFFECT @ createblog.com .. love the little smilie by the title .. never saw that one before .. (HAH! made you look)

Beyond Posterization @ wetzelandcompany .. probably not what you want .. but interesting nonetheless .. an example of 'the sky's the limit' when blending stuff

Tydye @ thedesignworld