| Photoshop - Light Rays |
| Written by David - http://www.websamba.com/NOCTAIN |
| Create a fantastic background texture |
| 1) | Open a new document 500pixels by 500 pixels. Reset the foregroung to white and background to black (D + X) |
| 2) | Apply the following Filters: Filter / Render / Clouds. Then Filter / Render / Difference Clouds. Apply the Filter / Render/ Difference Clouds twice more (Ctrl + F). Your image should look something like this image below. |
| 3) | Apply the following filter: Filter / Artistic / Rough Pastels. Use these settings: Stroke Length: 7 Stroke Detail: 15 Texture Type: Canvas Scaling: 100 Relief: 20 Without Invert Texture Light Direction: Bottom |
| 4) | Apply the following filter: Filter / Brush Strokes/ Accented Edges. Use these settings: Edge Width: 2 Edge Brightness: 38 Smoothness: 5 |
| 5) | Apply the following filter: Filter / Distort / Polar Coordinates Convert: Rectangular to Polar. Your image should now look something like this image below. |
| 6) | Apply the following filter: Filter / Stylize / Wind Method: Wind Direction: Right Apply this effect 3 more times (Cntl + F) |
| 7) | Apply the following filter: Polar Coordinates Convert: Polar to Rectangular |
| 8) | Apply the following filter: Hue/Saturation (Cntl + U) Colorize selected Hue: 215 Saturation: 50 Lightness: 0 |
| 9) | Duplicate the layer and set the duplicated layer's blending mode to overlay with an opacity of 50% |
| 10) | Give the duplicated a gausian blur of 2.5 |
| That it's your done! I hope this tutorial was useful to you. Please contact me should you require notification of new tutorials uploaded. |
