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Photoshop Tutorial: Use lighting effects to make photos sparkle

Wednesday 09 Jul 2008

Step 8
Go to your brushes panel and choose a soft round brush; make the size of the brush about half the size of the canvas. Click on the canvas and arrange this into the scene. Next, duplicate the layer to make some smaller splatters, and arrange these around the model.

Step 9
Repeat Step 08 to extend the light effects along the model’s leg. Hold Alt and drag, then Cmd/Ctrl + T to make it smaller. Repeat this a few times to make each consecutive loop down her leg smaller than the last. You can do this around her body too, if you wish. Use the same brush, but in black, to darken some areas of the background under the Vector Mask Layer.

Step 10
Select white again and create a new layer above all the others. Open the Brushes window and change the Spacing to 100%. Click on Shape Dynamics and set the Size Jitter to 80%. Set the Scattering to 440%. Start brushing areas on the canvas alternating brush diameter. Give some layers outer glows and vary the softness of the brush.

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Tip

Don’t forget that when transforming elements or areas, you don’t have to just scale. Select Edit > Transform and select some of the ways to transform like perspective, distort or skew. These can create some variation for your light effects.