Drawing Portal vfx

Im drawing particle effects on photoshop and krita want to know how you would draw this effect
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I’ve tried using distort filters but they all come out very sharp and not as blurry or as misty as the one above
here’s my attempt

Screenshot 2022-02-25 150211

im also a beginner so overall tips would be helpful

I’m not super experienced with PS, so take this with a grain of salt. I’d just dup the layer, blur it a bit, then use the liquify tool to give it the warped look. Maybe do that a few times with a few different layers, maybe throw some noise in there too.

(Note that I’d probably use a thicker spiral to start with. The one above is quite thin.)

you can apply a slight gaussian blur then just use the smudge tool

Screenshot 2022-02-25 160526

Using that method I got this, it’s not quite right but I think messing with the layering and opacity a bit will get me there

keep that old image and over lay is with the new one