Light blocks - Adobe Photoshop tutorial
- Added: Aug 9th, 2004
- Level: Medium
- Author: Melfina
- Program version: 7.0
- Reads: 28,916
- Description: Pure light coming out from blocks.
Make a new image (mine was 800x600 pixels) and set the foreground color
black and background color white:
Go to Filter> Render > Clouds and after that to Filter > Render > Difference clouds. Apply it multiple times. I applied it 4 times.
Now apply Accented edges to the image (Filter > Brush strokes >
Accented edges). You'll get this:
Go to Filter > Stylize > Tiles. These are the Settings: Number
of tiles: 10, Maximum offset: 10%, Fill empty area with: background
color.
Then apply a radial blur: Filter > Blur > Radial Blur. Settings: Amount:
23, Blur method: zoom, Quality: Best.
Change the levels (Image > Adjustments > Levels or just press Ctrl+L)
like this:
And you'll get more or less this:
And again go to Filter > Stylize > Tiles. Settings: Number
of tiles: 10, Maximum offset: 10%, Fill empty area with: background
color.
And Filter > Blur > Radial blur. Settings: Amount: 23, Blur
method: zoom, Quality: Best.
And accented edges again: Filter > brush strokes > accented edges
Now go to Edit > fade accented edges and set the opacity at 60%
We'll give it a little bit of color:
Image > adjustments > hue/saturation. You can choose the color you want. I chose
this settings: H: 211, S: 41, L: 0
Duplicate the layer and go to Edit > transform > flip
horizontal and change the layer's blending mode to Overlay
You can leave it like this, but if you want to lighten it even more go to Image> adjustments> brightness/contrast and move the contrast arrow until you're happy with the result. I left it at +40.
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