[rbfigueira]

Hello friends,

I am trying to "learn" how to do this king of lighting effects and i am using some image to get more close possible!!

Look at this image :



Note: This image is not my.


I think we can do that with de modes (overlay, hard light,ect)
I know that the guy have used something like this:

Filter>Render>Lens Flare

Filter>Artistic>Plastic Wrap

Then he put some layers with some transparency or screen, multiply mode.

Can anyone help me to obtain one image similar like that one?

Please post here the steps you have made and put the explication. Please

Thanks for all!
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Best regards,
Ricardo Figueira (RBFIGUEIRA)

[Ian Jones]

Pretty much just a matter of playing around with blending modes. Say for example you have a green background, then you make a new layer with white (good for colour dodge) with an interesting effect. Play around with the blending modes, opacity etc... and you eventually tweak it to a nice effect. You will become better at this over time, but even the pro's can spend hours tweaking and playing around... Design / art is afterall as much about the process. Nothing happens instantly.

The trick to these kind of effects, especially nowadays with the proliferation of 3D abstracts is to carefully balance your colour and tonal range until you get a really rich and interesting image. I see too many of these types of images that are just overdone, overexposed or overly detailed. Balance is the key. If you want your light effect to look really bright and glowing... don't just slap more and more areas of glowy stuff, think about making some areas darker and voila! you have contrast! surprise, suprise your light effect now looks really bright.

Hope thats what you wanted...