Create a Fantastic Special Lighting Effect in Photoshop

Photoshop is one of the best tools for designers to create most amazing and beautiful effects. We can see many photo manipulations and stunning artworks on internet and most of them are created with Photoshop.

Today in this tutorial, we are going to show you a cool and easy way to use the Special Lighting Effect in Photoshop. Learn the techniques on how to create this cool lighting effect.

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Tutorial details:

• Program: Adobe Photoshop CS5
• Difficulty: Intermediate
• Estimated Completion Time: 30 Mins

Fantastic Special Lighting Effect in Photoshop – Final Preview

Tools and Resources

Photoshop Tools

• Brush Tool
• Gradient Overlay
• Eraser Tool
• Rectangle Tool

External Resource

• Frost Fractal Flame
• Ice Hockey Player

Lets start to create our incredible special lighting effect in Photoshop

Step 1

Create a document (Ctrl+N) 1000×1000 of size.

Step 2

Add the Beautiful Background Picture in Photoshop to create our special lighting effect.

Step 3

Now create new layer select any soft brush with 40px and draw some lines with this color #2b808e as like in picture below.

 Step 4

Set the brush layer Blend Mode ( Color ).

Step 5

Now select 15px small soft brush and make some spots with white color #ffffff as like in preview.

Step 6

Select the Rectangle Tool (U) and draw a rectangle on full canvas with this color #662d91.

Step 7

Select 40px soft brush and draw some lines with this color #662d91.

Now set the Blend Mode (Color) of this rectangle layer.

Step 8

Add an image of any body as like I am adding a hockey player image and erase the background this picture with Eraser Tool.

Step 9

Go to Layer > New Fill Layer > Gradient and set this gradient setting.

After applying gradient, we get a cool result.

Step 10

Now set the Blend Mode (Liner Burn) of this gradient layer.

Step 11

After set blend mode of the gradient layer we get incredible special effect in final preview.

Final Preview

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