Simple yet effective lighting
effect in Photoshop.
1)
First of all create a new image
and then right away create a new layer. Also
set the background color as black, (the image
size I used here is 350X500). Now make a selection
one pixel wide and make it cover the whole
length. Fill this selection in with white.
2)
Next you have to go to "Filter/Distort/Wave."
The settings are as follows, [Generators -
5], [Wavelenth - 225/299], [Amplitude - 5/35],
and [Scale - 100/100]. Now you have a wavey
line, Apply an outer glow and transform and
duplicate it a bit to look like this. ( Or
experiment, I am just giving you an idea of
how this is done.) I made the light balls
with the gradient tool set to "radial."
3)
You can now start to add detail,
smaller particals and some dodges. This effect
is easy, but it really depends on how much
time you want to spend doing it. It really
starts to look good on 3D explosions in abstracts.
I went ahead doing a little more detail using
the same techniques and styles.
