Showing posts with label light effects. Show all posts
Showing posts with label light effects. Show all posts

Combine Renders and Light Effects

Abstract artworks often combine renders, stock photos and simple techniques in Photoshop to create professional results.  However, understanding symmetry, composition, lighting and the tools in Photoshop can take awhile to learn, and practice is required.
In this tutorial, we are going to extract the ability of Photoshop tools to make an epic piece of digital art.  We’ll look at how to manipulate a pre-made render into the composition, as well as how to utilize blending modes, gradients and the liquify tool to achieve a brilliant abstract result.
You’ll learn a variety of techniques and useful tips to use in your own compositions, so let’s get started!

Tools Required:

  • Adobe Photoshop

Final Image Preview:




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Sign In Casino Style By Photoshop

So in this tutorial I will show you how to create a very nice light effect using basic filters, layer style, blend modes and some stock photos. The whole process won't take you more than 45 minutes and the level of this tutorial is in my opinion easy, but it require some attention to the details.

Step 1

Open Photoshop and create a new document, the size I'm using is 1113x1440 pixels. Make sure that the background is in black. After that add a text in a vertical order. The word I added is Abduzeedo and I used Arial Black for the color.
Easy Casino Style Sign in Photoshop

Step 2

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Lighting Effects Using Photoshop CS4

Final Product What You'll Be Creating
One of the best sites around for desktops has to be Desktopography. I’ve been inspired by their amazing work, so today we are going to put together a sunset image mixing some vector shapes and dusky lighting effects to produce a slick image that would make a nice album cover for a chillout mix! 
                    
Photoshop Lighting Effects
Photoshop Lighting Effects

Steps and Assets
As always you can download the PSD file to follow along at the bottom of this tutorial. It’s a pretty large file so be warned! Additionally we are using a few assets including a photo from iStockPhoto and some vectors from Arsenal’s Freebie Section. Note that in the sample PSD, I’ve merged some text onto the original image to protect its copyright since it’s such a large copy.


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