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
Magic lighting effect in photoshop
Mar 28, 2007 effects photoshop tutorial
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 2 STRIPES of TEXT4 - 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 Range6 - Group the 2 lines of texts and with one apply a mask to make the stripes disappear at their ends.
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7 - With the other group of text apply a gausian blur, after that delete some parts to show the non-blury text.
8 - Create a new layer below the text and with a regular big brush like 100px add a spot of light in white
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).
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.
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Sun Nov 18, 2007 9:58 pm
