>>3348338Working blind like that would be difficult. Once you get the feel for the tools, you'll probably be better at composing things. Especially, for color schemes and shape in the real world that meshes well with these types of edits.
>I'm interested in how you do the hardware effects, care to post some?I enhance the defects of lenses and/or use various things in front/inside/behind the lenses to bend and diffract, split, or block the light. The effects can be subtle or very extreme. Since this is a more extreme abstract kind of threads, here's one of the more extreme examples.