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Introducton to Adobe Photoshop

What is Photoshop

Photoshop has become the leading digital image editing application for the Internet, print, and other new media disciplines. It is embraced by millions of graphic artists, print designers, visual communicators, and regular people like you.

Traditionally, Photoshop has been and continues to be a print industry standard. It's likely that nearly every picture you've seen (such as posters, book covers, magazine pictures, and brochures) has either been created or edited by Photoshop. The powerful tools used to enhance and edit these pictures are also capable for use in the digital world including the infinite possibilities of the Internet.



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 colour blending. The end effect is quite stunning and hopefully you'll pick up some tips you didn't know before.


Step 1:

As with pretty much every tutorial I've ever written we begin with a radial gradient. This one is pretty harsh and goes from a reddish brown colour to black. Here are the exact colour codes:

Foreground colour - #922f00
Background colour - #000000










Step 2:

In this tutorial we actually need a pretty intense centre, so what we'll do is duplicate the layer we just made and set the one above to a blending mode of "Color Dodge" . There are a few types of blending modes, darkening ones, lightening ones, colourizing ones and inverting ones. Color Dodge is probably the stronges of the lightening ones. As you can see in the screenshot it produces a pretty full on centre













Step 4:

Now set the opacity of your layer to "Overlay" and 30% transparency. In some instances this would be enough, but for our needs we want it even smokier looking!

So go to Filter > Sketch > Chrome and use default settings of 4 and 7 for detail and smoothness respectively. Actually you can probably mess around with those if you want, but the defaults seem to be fine.

When you're done you the result should look a lot smokier (once its overlayed at 30% transparency that is). You can see the result in the background of the next screenshot.








Step 5:

Now before we can start making glows, we need to have something TO glow. Here's where we break out the pen tool. If you have used the pen tool much I suggest playing around with it a little. There are some tricky things you can do with shortcuts but for this tutorial you don't need those.

In fact all we want to achieve is some nice curves. Fortunately this isn't too hard. I find the trick is not to use too many points. Instead rely on the pen tools natural curving and drag the mouse out for each point so you get a big angle. In this S curve shown above I've only used three points, the starting point, the end point and one in between to give it the bend



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Step 5:

Once you have a nice curve, create a new layer. Then click on the paintbrush tool (B) and choose a very thin, hard brush. As you know soft brushes are the blurry ones and hard brushes are more solid. In this case I suggest using a thickness of 3.

Note that you can have any colour selected as your brush colour because we'll go over it with a layer style shortly.







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