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Abstract Light
203AbstractLight40x40 This tutorial will show you how to create an awesome abstract light which just exists in fairy tales!

 Here is what we will try to do in this tutorial:

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First of all, you have to get the original image at  here which is in a very large resolution. If not, you can use the image below (in a lower resolution)

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In fact, we don't need that small glowing circle because we can easily create one with Photoshop by going to Filter >Render > Lens Flare, but this image saved us a few steps ^_^

Now let's start to photoshop!

Step 1: Open this picture in Photoshop. If it is too large, you can go to Image > Image Size and set a smaller size (I used 370 pixels in width). When you change it, the height will be automatically changed.

Firstly, press D to reset your colors. Create a new layer, use the Gradient Tool (G) with Foreground to Background option to draw a line from top to bottom of your image. You can hold down Shift key while drawing to create a straight line.  We will have

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 Step 2: Go to Filter > Distort > Wave and use these settings

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Step 3: We will blur it a little so go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur and set a radius of 2.1 pixels

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Step 4: Now press Ctrl-I to invert our image

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Step 5: Go to Filter > Distort > Polar Coordinates and choose Rectangular to Polar option

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Step 6: Now change your current layer's blend mode to Screen

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After this step, we will have

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Step 7: Use the Move Tool (V) to place the center of our light onto the glowing circle

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Step 8: Use the Erase Tool (E) to erase all beams on the Earth. You should also erase the right edge of our beams to make it more real, like this

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Step 9: And ...erm... our image is rather dark, so we should make it brighter. In the Layers tab, select our Background layer and press Ctrl-J to duplicate it, here is my Layers tab after this step

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Now press Ctrl-Shift-U to cover its colors into black and white. Once again, change your current layer's blend mode to Screen. By the way, the Screen mode is used for knocking out dark areas, making our image look brighter

Step 10: Now jump back to Layer 1, which contains our beams, press Ctrl-U to open up the Hue/Saturation dialog box. Make sure to tick on the Colorize checkbox and use these settings

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Well, it's all! Here is our final result

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When working with image, you have to consider its size, colors, hue, saturation to adjust your parameters appropriately. Sometimes your settings only work with a particular size!

 



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Comments
franco 03-26-2008
very good.
Andres 04-09-2008
great and easy turorial thanks alot really helped out =)
faabz; 04-09-2008
very good.
Andy 04-09-2008
This is a great tutorial. Made lots of things =]
hisoka 04-09-2008
Looks really nice. Another option is to make a new layer for the earth not including the space and put this layer over the light, to make erasing the extra light either easier or even unnecessary. The earth layer will just cover the extraneous light. Hopefully things will be easier after that as it's hard to make the lightning look exactly as the one in this tutorial.
Noor 04-10-2008
very nice
sharingan 04-10-2008
very very good
Sofi 04-10-2008
Great nice piece of work!
yoseph 04-10-2008
awesome thanks lot
Silver 04-10-2008
realy good, nice and simple,looks realy good and better than a lens flare!
L.kumar 04-11-2008
simply the best (easyway)tutorial
chichiri 05-11-2008
like it
joseph 05-19-2008
piece of cake.......thanks
h*oun 05-20-2008
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joseph 05-19-2008

piece of cake.......thanks



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Ashley 06-24-2008
Quick and easy. Like pasta!! Yummy.
mama makita 06-25-2008
wow omfgosh
dis is a mazin did u do this your self or did someone else do it cause this is th *en shiz yepyepyepyepyepyep


so wow any ways see ya
Philippe F. 06-25-2008
Awesome tutorial
ibii 06-26-2008
nice mannn easyy to doo...
Theeban. Chennai 06-26-2008
Gota nice effect, 10x.........
معتص&# 07-21-2008
مشكور درس جميل و سهل
thanks nice easy lesson
Bullet 07-21-2008
Thank you very much, great effect!
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