Talented people create awesome abstract art. Programs produce whatever someone providing input configures them to produce. It is the artist, not the tools that makes the difference.

Having said that, the program used to make much of the item to which you linked is most likely some type of 3D program, such as 3D Studio Max, Rhino3D, Maya, PovRay, or even Bryce, among other possibilities.

By the way, a bazaar is a place lined with stalls or shops which sell trinkets, sundries, and things like paintings of Elvis on black velvet. Bizarre is strange or unusual, normally to an extreme degree. Bizarre and bazaar art are quite possible if one tries to substitute tools for talent.

3ds max is really THE tool in the industrie... however quality dasn't come cheap.
bryce on the other hand is a good program too, alot cheaper than MAX
Photoshop can be used too but just dasn't have the quality for abstract art,
some examples of each program I used:

3ds MAX:https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=8&SkinID=11055
3ds MAX:https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=8&SkinID=11004
Bryce:https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=8&SkinID=6294
Bryce:https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=8&SkinID=7363
Photoshop:https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=8&SkinID=4957
Photoshop:https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=8&SkinID=4976

hope you find your way to the perfect program for you.

Styl-X Design hits his head against the wall... HARD

Designcaddy, filters = program. Its like calling terragen a tool instead of a generator.

upload a wall like that and it won't make it trough submission.
You don't need skills to press: Filter, etc, etc. >

By the way, thank you for your answers.

The logon you mentioned in your first post... http://skins4.wincustomize.com/Hendrikemre/logon/preview.jpg

Looks like Bryce and Photoshop to me...

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you can do a lot of fantastic things without going outside of the tool pallet in photoshop

i thought i said that pretty clearly. the filter does not make the artwork. however, if he wants distortion/abstraction, he is going to need automation unless he is a photoshop master already. the way to begin is to draw something and play with it.. transform it, filter it, see what happens.

i make my own filters. because i am using a filter, is it doing the work for me? hardly. it takes skill to use a filter properly, look at the lens flare. do not make the mistake of comparing photoshop to terragen. as you pointed out, one is a generator. photoshop is not all about automation and filters, or if it was it would not cost what it cost. if thats all you've used it for, then i don't belive you have any right to contradict me. sheesh.