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Press CTRL/CMD + U to open up the Hue/Saturation window and move the slider to adjust the colours to a palette that takes your preference.Ĭhoose a dark purple colour and select a soft brush tip.Ĭreate a new layer and set the blending mode to Color Dodge. On a new layer, use the Gradient Tool to overlay three bright colours from the edges of the document. Import the image into a new document and erase out the edges to blend smoothly into a black background. Open up the light stream image into Photoshop, adjust the Levels, Curves and Hue/Saturation to darken out the background and brighten up the light streams. Here’s my example we’ll be working with in this article. Experiment with various camera settings and movement techniques to record a collection of images to choose from.Īfter a few attempts you’ll have a good selection of images to work with.
With torch in hand and camera active, wave your arms around like a mad-man/mad-woman until the shutter closes.
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Setup your camera on a tripod or sturdily rest on a hard surface, in manual mode set the camera to a high Aperture F value to increase the depth of field, and lengthen the shutter speed to around 20 to 30 seconds. Torch wise, any household light emitting device will do, but feel free to experiment with various styles of torches, bulb, LED etc.įind yourself a large space, close all curtains and turn out the lights making the area as dark as possible.
Ideally an SLR type camera would be the better option, as an extremely long exposure time and small aperture setting are required. To begin, you’d need a couple of items, namely a digital camera some kind of torch.
If you would prefer to skip straight to the digital techniques, download the ready-made resources from the Six Free High-Res Glowing Light Stream Images post and head on down the page! In this article we’ll be starting from scratch, working away from the computer to gather together the resources which we’ll be manipulating later.
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My previous How to Create Intense Light Streaks in Photoshop article turned out to become the most popular tutorial here on Blog.SpoonGraphics, so it seems to be quite a hot topic! It makes sense, therefore to take another look at the intense light effects area of design and experiment with a range of techniques to produce our own vibrant artwork.