Creating light effects is often a pretty easy process. Giving those light effects life and making them resemble real-life objects can require a bit more skill, time, and patience. Today, we will demonstrate how to create a grungy, Street Fighter inspired composition that includes light, photo, and text effects. Let’s get started!

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Today is Blog Action Day, a day when bloggers all over the world unite to discuss a particular topic. What a lot of people may not know is that Envato founders, Collis and Cyan Ta’eed founded Blog Action Day in the summer of 2007 hoping to raise awareness about the environment. Since then, Blog Action Day has become a huge success with the participation of thousands of blogs including the White House and the UK Foreign Office. Today, Blog Action Day is being managed by the team at Change.org; the topic of this year’s event is Water.

Right now, almost a billion people on the planet don’t have access to clean, safe drinking water. That’s one in eight of us who are subject to preventable disease and even death because of something that many of us take for granted. Psdtuts has decided to help raise awareness of the issue by doing what we do best, publishing tutorials. Today’s tutorial will demonstrate how to create a wallpaper for Blog Action Day. So let’s get started!

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