Photoshop Tutorial: Ray of Lights Effect
10. Redo steps 2-9 to create the other lights
11. Duplicate your layer, give it a proper name.
12. Lock your new layer
13. Change the foreground color to black (D)
14. Fill the new layer with black (alt+D)
15. Change the new layer mode to overlay, and change the opacity to 64%
16. Rotate your new layer a bit by choosing edit>transform>rotate
and that’s it.
If you need to delete some part your new ray of lights, you might want to use the layer mask.
Here’s again the final result.
Submitted by Harryanto
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love it, only that the sun can’t do that if it’s not behind the clouds, if you think about it. the rays are a result of the sunlight hitting the clouds. so you should maybe include how to lower the sun?
it’s just fine, the sun can do that, thinking about it realy brings me to a conclusion that the sun would never be in front of any cloud on earth.
Nice tutorial.
Keep it up
the rays look natural! thanks for sharing!
Its nice,but the rays are a result of the clouds blocking the sun so that they get silver on their edges, it will be nice to see the dark clouds getting silvered on their edges + the rays…..
What a pic will that be????