Magic lighting effect in photoshop
Since my last article on how to create smoke generated lots of traffic, I decided to write another one on some of the photoshop effects. Although I use Photoshop on a daily basis, I am by no means a photoshop expert.
Well what I want to show here is how to create a nice light and magic effect.
1 - Create a radial gradient, in this case from a purple to a really dark purple
2 - Here I added a really cool Icon of a magic hat from the Crystal Clear Collection by Everaldo
3 - Add some text, I used the source code of a site to get the text and apply the Distort >Wave filter
Create two stripes of text
4 - Rotate and place the text
5 - Add some light using glow : Use different values for each line of text, the secret here is the blending option COLOR DODGE..
Change the values of Spread, Size and Range
6 - Group the 2 lines of texts and with one apply a mask to make the stripes disappear at their ends.
7 - With the other group of text apply a gausian blur, after that delete some parts to show the non-blury text.
This will add a movement feel to the text, like they are really being magicaly created.
8 - Create a new layer below the text and with a regular big brush like 100px add a spot of light in white.
The layer must be below the text, otherwise the glow will not affect the white spot
9 - Make some smoke again, I used the eraser, I could've used the liquify as well
10 - Create a cloud: to do that make use a marquee with feather set to a value bigger than 20 and apply the render>clouds holding the command key(mac), ctrl key(win).
The same as the previous post, and the most important thing apply the COLOR DODGE blending options on it
11 - Sparks: For the sparks create a brush, play with the shape dynamics, scatering, and other dynamics. After that, apply a Outer Glow and Inner Glow to create the magic effect.
End - The result is really simple but at the same time it looks beautiful.
The whole process took me about 35 minutes, one thing I think is really cool is to apply the color dodge blending option to folder, and put blured elements inside of it. Using it you can create some really amazing light effects.
The PSD files can be downloaded.
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About author
My name is Fabio Sasso, I'm a graphic/web designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil and I'm the founder of Abduzeedo. I hope we can share lots of information, tips, and ideas through abduzeedo.
haaaa is great!, good tutorial!
simple and cute..
nice work..
Awesome and easy-to-follow tutorial. I'm just now getting into Photoshop and am always on the lookout for basic tutorials to get me started. Thanks!
nice for the tutorial,keep going in front with these tutorials
very nice and helpful
You rock!!!!
This is a very nice tutorial.. and very helpful. I applied some of your hints into some demos for posters here at work!
Thanks very much for sharing!
Cesar
Greetings from Canada!
You have a terrific outlook on life.
How to apply wave filter to test.
I'm a PS newbie but with a little research on the web I've found out that text is a vector and you have to change it to a normal layer to apply the the wave filter you must first rasterise the text layer first. Also make sure that you are working in 8 bits/channel
1. goto layer > rasterize > type
This tutorial blows be more descriptive when you do something like this again because it just confused me
My girlfriend is an artist, she ran across this post and almot duplicated what you did in a short amount of time (about 4 hours) . I guess once an artist see's it done the first time, it is easy for them, like a real guitarist, once they see it, they can play it.
Great site, now I may get some great art for one of my sites, thanks.
Hi.. im Leo.. im a GRAPHIC DESIGNER wanna be...hehehe.. i appreciate that magic lighting effect.. it gives me idea and knowledge..i hope you can send me some of your tutorials.....thanks thanks thanks....
I agree with most commenters that this is an awful tutorial. Yes the effect is nice, but if your going to write a tutorial, you need to write it for a total noob. An experienced photoshop person can do this regardless and is no use to them, so leaving out the important stuff helps no one.
And please, get someone to proof read your writing, your english is HORRIBLE and far from understandable
Great effect. This is one tutorial that I must do.
I really like this one along with the coffee cup one. thank you very much
Very good:::: m2j
can u change the link for the hat?? plz
Wow. This is a cool effect. Thanks for the tips. We will try to add some photoshop-made effects on our real estate sites.
Thank You very nice topic