Cool magic lighting Photoshop tutorial

[Robert]

Some nice magic looking lighting effects made with Photoshop Magic lighting effect in photoshop | Abduzeedo by design

I wish i could do that kind of thing with Photoshop but there are just to many buttons for me to figure out.

[cheater]

That's an amazing effect. I would love to be able to do that. Sadly, it is way above my experience level.

[macuser9214]

AWESOME! Anyone know of a GIMP version of this tut?

[cheater]

You should be able to preform many of the steps listed in the tutorial in GIMP. Try going through it. If you get stuck at a step, post the step here.

[macuser9214]

or not.. Mirror anyone (Digg talk, lol)

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[cheater]

http://www.abduzeedo.com.nyud.net:8080/magic_effect

That's a mirror of it, but the images won't load.

Edit: One of the comments had a copy of it.

Magic lighting effect in photoshop

Submitted by abduzeedo on Wed, 03/28/2007 - 12:48.

* photoshop
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
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2 - Here I added a really cool Icon of a magic hat from the Crystal Clear Collection by Everaldo (Everaldo.com : Crystal Icons)
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3 - Add some text, I used the source code of a site to get the text and apply the Distort >Wave filter
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Create two stripes of text

4 - Rotate and place the text
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5 - Add some light using glow : Use different values for each line of text, the secret here is the blending option COLOR DODGE..
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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.
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This will add a movement feel to the text, like they are really being magicaly created.

8 - Create a new layer below the text and with a regular big brush like 100px add a spot of light in white.
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The layer must be below the text, otherwise the glow will not affect the white spot

9 - Make some smoke again, I used the eraser, I could've used the liquify as well
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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).
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The same as the previous post, and the most important thing apply the COLOR DODGE blending options on it

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.
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End - The result is really simple but at the same time it looks beautiful.
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The whole process took me about 35 minutes, one thing I think is really cool is to apply the color dodge blending option to folder, and put blured elements inside of it. Using it you can create some really amazing light effects.

[macuser9214]

They loaded for me. I'll go try it and see if I can make it. You knopw what it looks like (from their preview thing?)
A linux Login screen, or something.

[macuser9214]

Having trouble creating the waves of text.. What settings do I use for the distort>wave thing?

[cheater]

Not real sure. I'm not that great with GIMP. I just know a little bit about following a photoshop tutorial using GIMP.

[macuser9214]

NOT exact, but close enough. Used gimp completely (no other programs), and for the text glow, used this plug-in:
GIMP script for 2.0 : layer effects (tested and improved)
Here it is:



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