Photoshop Tutorial: Ray of Lights Effect

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10. Redo steps 2-9 to create the other lights

11. Duplicate your layer, give it a proper name.

12. Lock your new layer

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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%

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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.

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10 Comments »

Comment by ovi
2005-10-19 01:32:05

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?

Comment by Ra
2009-06-05 23:05:18

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.

 
 
Comment by Varun
2006-02-03 10:39:50

Nice tutorial.

Keep it up

 
Comment by aurora
2007-06-03 05:15:26

the rays look natural! thanks for sharing!

 
Comment by Rahul
2008-04-30 13:57:23

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????

 
Comment by Karthik Nayakkar Subscribed to comments via email
2009-11-26 08:22:57

Thanks…

Nice tutorial….

Keep up the good work :)

 
Comment by yasmin lind
2009-12-29 04:15:26

I USED adobephotoshop CS3..i cant found symbol paint bucket..

Comment by Wynton Jerrell Subscribed to comments via email
2010-01-08 15:11:46

The paint bucket is with the “Gradient Tool”. Click and hold the Gradient Tool button and a little option window will open to select the paint bucket.

PS – great tut.

 
 
Comment by ThierryD
2011-01-10 17:29:58

Good tutorial, this one of the method to create rays of sun or rays of light with Pohotshop.
You can see another technic :
http://rienquepourlesyeux.free.fr/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=77&start=0
It is for information and completion to this tutorial and create a very realistic rays of sun.

 
Comment by SEO Freelance Hyderabad
2011-01-13 02:26:10

Excellent tutorial, thanks for sharing, it will help me in my freelance web design projects

 

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