Quick and Extremely Easy Glowing Lights Photoshop Brushes


Two variations of the same brush

For the first alternative we will apply a Radial blur filter and a Sharpen More filter. The Radial blur will get rid of the most visible halos surrounding the glow. And the Sharpen More filter will increase the visibility of the light rays.

For the second alternative we will just apply a Motion blur filter. This will give  the glow a different shape.

The following examples were made with these two new brushes:

These examples were created the same way than the previous ones. Play with the brush tool blending modes (not with the layer blending modes) and also play with the brush dynamics. These settings can give you a lot of cool effects.

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  1. Nice tutorial, its got cool effects alright and its very useful especially if you are doing fancy designs and artworks. I used mine on making wallpapers and photo editing.

    Posted by Ray Balagtas on December 17th, 2006 at 7:56 pm

  2. Thanks Ray! Why don’t you share with us your designs? Leave a link here.

    Posted by Enrique Flouret on December 17th, 2006 at 8:03 pm

  3. Hey thanks for this tutorials!! It looks fun and easy!!
    After this comment i’ll go try it right away.
    This tutorial taught me ALOT thanks for sharing!!

    Posted by VzCwDFJ0 on February 23rd, 2007 at 10:40 pm

  4. Heres my results!! Although I didn’t know how to make the circles glow and all that.
    But I’m happy about the rest of my result, looks very nice. =)
    [IMG]http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l132/taznt/PhotoShop%20CS2/CustomizedBrush.jpg[/IMG]

    Posted by VzCwDFJ0 on February 24th, 2007 at 4:06 pm

  5. that genious - thanks for this great tip

    tobi

    Posted by tobi on May 9th, 2007 at 4:45 am

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    Posted by Tutorial Thursday: Photo Manipulation Tutorials - Photoshop Atmospheric Effect — How To Start Your Design Business on July 12th, 2007 at 4:36 pm

  7. Thanks for this! Exactly what I was after to finish off my renders. :)

    Posted by Akiwihere on July 20th, 2007 at 3:54 am

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