Since my last article on how tocreate 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 - Add some text, I used the source code of a site to get the text and apply the Distort >Wave filter
Create two stripes of text
3 - Rotate and place the text
4 - 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
5 - Group the 2 lines of texts and with one apply a mask to make the stripes disappear at their ends.
6 - With the other group of text apply a gausian blur, after that delete some parts to show the non-blury text.
This will add a movement feel to the text, like they are really being magicaly created.
7 - Create a new layer below the text and with a regular big brush like 100px add a spot of light in white.
The layer must be below the text, otherwise the glow will not affect the white spot
8 - Make some smoke again, I used the eraser, I could've used the liquify as well
9 - 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).
The same as the previous post, and the most important thing apply the COLOR DODGE blending options on it
10 - 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.
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.
