magic lightning effect in photoshop

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 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.
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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.

awesome tnx for sharing...

whoa! sweet!!

i'll try this nga later

ehehe thanks

ang galeng salamat po

thanks for sharing iba talaga
d2 hehehe...
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