70 Tutorials For Learning And Mastering Light Effects In Photoshop
- August 30th, 2010
- Tutorials
This compilation offers a diverse selection of tutorials, each designed to help you master a different type of lighting effect in Photoshop. Whether you’re a novice or a seasoned guru of Photoshop, there are tutorials here that can teach you new tips and tricks to add to your arsenal. From basic lighting effects to more advanced techniques, this collection has something for everyone. And because it’s a bookmark-worthy resource, you can come back to it again and again for future reference. We hope you enjoy exploring all the possibilities that this collection has to offer!
1. Create a Glowing Effect Scene in Photoshop
This tutorial will teach you how to come up a cool glowing effects on your artworks.
2. Electrifying Energy Beams
Here’s a great effect that will bring some energy to your subject. We’ll be wrapping this singer’s arm with a glowing beam of light, adding sparkles, and adjusting the colors to make it all seem magical.
3. Space Lighting Effects in 10 Steps – Photoshop Tutorial
Here’s a great effect that will bring some energy to your subject. We’ll be wrapping this singer’s arm with a glowing beam of light, adding sparkles, and adjusting the colors to make it all seem magical.
4. Drawing an Abstract Lightbulb
in this tutorial It will cover a couple of different photoshop techniques.
5. Creating Energy Spheres in Photoshop
For this tutorial you’ll need a photo that you want to manipulate and some special brush sets.
6. Amazing Photoshop light effect in 10 Steps
A great tutorial on how to create magical sparkles using Photoshop brushes.
7. Seriously Cool Photoshop Explosion Effect
A great tutorial on how to create magical sparkles using Photoshop brushes.Explosions are cool. Seriously cool. So when I received some e-mails asking about how to create a break-apart, explosion effect, I knew it’d be worth making a tutorial on. Read on to find out how to break apart a body, then add some awesome lighting and glow, and nopattern style, to finish the image o
8. Adding Flames and Effects to Make an Image with Impact
Instead of riding snow, this boarder is flying through flames. In this tutorial, we’ll create fire and smoke without using any photos. You’ll learn how to combine both to create a flaming, dynamic image that jumps right at you.
9. Creating Colorful Disco Lines Effect
This simple tutorial will show how we can create professional-looking colored lines with the usage of Photoshop Brushes and Blend Modes. It’s an interesting find for me when I was doing random experiments with Photoshop.
10. Digital Bokeh Effect
It will show you how to create a digital bokeh effect, but this time in Photoshop. The process is very easy and we will be using the super powerful Brush Engine, one of the coolest things in Photoshop.
11. Advanced Glow Effects
In this tutorial, we’re going to create some really sharp-looking glow effects using a combination of layer styles, the Pen Tool and Color Blending. The end effect is quite stunning and hopefully you’ll pick up some tips you didn’t know before.
12. Design a Coldplay/Apple Inspired Portrait in Photoshop
This tutorial will show you how to create a portrait based on the style of the latest Coldplay / Apple Ad featuring “Viva la Vida” from Coldplay.
13. Create a Space Explosion From Scratch in Photoshop
If you’ve ever wanted to create a space explosion in Photoshop, then we have the tutorial for you. With the techniques learned in this tutorial, you can create explosions as seen in a Sci-Fi television series. Let’s learn how to make this effect from scratch.
14. How to create 3D abstract circles in Photoshop CS4
You will create abstract circles in real 3D. To complete this tutorial you need Photoshop CS4 (…), a good graphic card and 5 minutes.
15. Create a Layered Glowing Text Effect
In this tutorial, you will create this effect using very basic Photoshop tools and layering effects. This tutorial is simple enough for a beginner to understand, but I should warn you that in this tutorial there ends up being over 60 active text layers, which will require a heavy use of your computer’s memory. Let’s jump into this tutorial and layer some glowing text.
16. Design a Vibrant Blackberry Inspired Ad in Photoshop
The Blackberry Loves U2 TV promo features some awesome, bright and vibrant lighting effects. Let’s take a look at recreating the style to produce a Blackberry inspired design of our own.
17. Design a Vista Styled Wallpaper
Today you’ll create a wallpaper in Vista style. A black background will be filled with stylish gradients decorated with blue and green abstract curved shapes. The techniques used in this tutorial are scalable. It’s easy to turn the final design into different sizes to fit various monitors.
18. Beijing 2008 Logo Light Painting in Photoshop
In this tutorial It will show you how to create a nice light painiting effect for texts and logos. You will be able to design nice wallpapers and images using this technique and even different light effects. Also, celebrating the Olympic Games we will use its logo for the example.
19. Energize Your Graphics with Abstract Energy Lines
This tutorial, will show you how to create some energetic lines you can use to create more lively digital creations. Effects such as this are great for enhancing abstract compositions!
20. Luminescent Lines
This tutorial will mainly explore the brush engine and you will also learn how to create custom brushes and use them effectively, combined with some interesting layer styles.
21. Create a Glowing Light Painting Effect
A few weeks ago a friend of mine had published an article on my blog about Light painting. I was really impressed by all the effects these guys can create taking photos with long exposures. Then I thought it would be a nice idea to do that in Photoshop. So in this tutorial I will show you an easy, and very fast way, to create a light painting in Photoshop.
22. Fire tutorial
This tutorial will teach you how to create creative and stylish fire lines in 10 easy steps!
23. Really cool Eclipse Effect in Photoshop
In this tutorial It will show you how to create the Abduzeedo’s footer. Some of the techniques I used here I took from other tutorials and also from another tutorial I wrote some time ago for PSDtuts Mix Cool Retro Curves Into Your Photographs. Besides, the design is inspired by the amazing work of James White, so I highly recommend you to check his work out.
24. How to Make a Stylish Glowing Box in Photoshop
In this Adobe Photoshop graphic design tutorial, we are going to create a magical glow effect coming from a box in Photoshop. This is a pretty simple effect that looks great and can easily be adapted for use in other ways.
25. Colorful Glowing Text Effect in Photoshop
After seeing some recent Type work by Vicenç Fontanet (or, Drasik), in his recent project for “Miniblack“, I just had to give the effect a shot myself in Photoshop. It’s a wondeful little style that could easily be integrated into any dark graphic design where some upbeat text is needed.
26. Expressive lighting effects
Lighting effects are an effective way to add a detailed illustrative touch to a photo. Justin Maller demonstrates how to go about combining several lighting techniques.
27. Lighting Shutter Text Effect Tutorial
Web Design Blog teaches you how to create this beautiful slow shutter text effect.
28. Super Fast – Speed Lighting Effect
Take an image of a fireworks display and turn it into an intense sensation of speed. Manipulate natural lighting to fill a motion filled scene. Use masks to blend the effect over a car image to make the car appear to be in motion. This tutorial shows you exactly what to do. Let’s get moving.
29. How to Create Intense Light Streaks in Photoshop
A great lighting tutorial useing the pen tool.
30. End of the World Photo Manipulation
A great photo manipulation tutorial which you use some amazing lighting effects.
31. Electrifying Glow Album Art
In this tutorial we will use the pen tool, paths brushes and brush dynamics along with a neat little trick using thresholds to create a cool album cover look.
32. Flying Girl in Photoshop
In this tutorial you will use some stock photos and mix them together to create a nice effect. It was inspired by a chapter of the depthCORE collective called NOIR.
33. Make an Apple Coldplay Style Ad in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a very similar effect to that used in the Apple Coldplay Video Ad. If you have done the Sparkling Hot Girl tutorial in Photoshop, you will find it similar in some steps of this tutorial.
34. Striking Text Effect Using Glows and Blends
In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to create the image above using a combination of glows and blends in 7 steps. All the files for this tutorial are at the bottom of this post.
35. NoPattern “Jumper” Effect
One of the coolest digital artists around is Chuck Anderson, a.k.a. NoPattern. After seeing a recent Psdtuts+ reader request, I decided to show you how to create a light effect similar to NoPattern’s Jumper Poster.
36. How to create neon glow
In our Photoshop Tutorial, you will create a Glowing Neon Girl from scratch. Throughout this tutorial, you will simply learn how to make some cool Glowing Effects in Photoshop.
37. Ahhh alien Invastion
Time again to talk about aliens! No, not the illegal kind. The green kind! What better way to kickoff the summer spirit than with explosions, death rays, and a little stormy weather – thanks to our friend, Photoshop.
38. A Cool Lighting Effect In Photoshop
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create that effect we saw on the screen at the Macworld San Francisco. It’s basically some lighting effects with blurs and blend modes, but the effect is awesome.
39. Iron Man View Interface Effect in Photoshop
So in this tutorial It will show you how to create the Iron Man screen interface, I don’t even know if I can call it that way :). We will use Illustrator to create some vectors and Photoshop to put everything together.
40. Create a Dramatic Car Speeding Scene
An awesome Photoshop tutorial on how to create a speeding car design.
41. Give a Photo a Complete Glamour Makeover With Stunning Light and 3D Effects
Have you ever wanted to see what you would look like after a complete makeover? Today, I’m going to show you how to transform a regular, every day photo into a real glamour shot. In this tutorial, you will learn how to retouch a model’s face and subtly manipulate her hair. In addition, we will enhance the canvas by adding attractive lighting and 3D effects.
42. Displacement effects
In this tutorial you will learn how to use a variety of filters and techniques to produce an image in an experimental style. It’s a flowing work technique, and things will always change and blend into the image in different ways, so don’t expect to recreate the exact image I have created here.
43. Colorful Light Effect in Photoshop
So in this tutorial It will show you how to create a super easy but at the same time beautiful light effect.
44. Splattered Photoshop
It’s a little long at 25 mins but theres a lot of good little tips and tricks in it.
The tutorial is a follow on from my learn how to make a custom brush tutorial where you will now learn how to effectively use your custom brushes and create this stunning design. You can also use the same work flow on different images with similar effects.
45. Super Easy Neon Style in Photoshop
In this tutorial I will show you how to create a nice light effect in Photoshop. We will use Layer Styles and Blend Modes to simulate a neon text effect.
46. Design a Space Inspired Iphone Advert
Learn how to create amazing space age lighting effects as part of a sleek, professional Iphone advert.
