Super Slick Dusky Lighting Effects in Photoshop

Sep 28th in Photo Effects by Collis
One of the best sites around for desktops has to be Desktopography. I've been inspired by their amazing work, so today we are going to put together a sunset image mixing some vector shapes and dusky lighting effects to produce a slick image that would make a nice album cover for a chillout mix!
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Author: Collis

Hello! I started Psdtuts+ because years ago reading Photoshop tutorials was how I got into design. You can find me on Twitter or on my blog theNetsetter.

What we are Making

Click the image for the high-res version.

Steps and Assets

As always you can download the PSD file to follow along at the bottom of this tutorial. It's a pretty large file so be warned! Additionally we are using a few assets including a photo from iStockPhoto and some vectors from Arsenal's Freebie Section. Note that in the sample PSD, I've merged some text onto the original image to protect its copyright since it's such a large copy.

Step 1:

So here's our original photo from iStock. It's a pretty gorgeous photo with great sunset lighting and contrast for us to build on.

Step 2:

First off we duplicate the photo, press Ctrl-Shift-U to desaturate the image to Black and White. Then go to Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast and make the image a bit brighter and contrastier as shown.

Step 3:

Now go to Filters > Blur > Gaussian Blur and apply a mild blur of 2px.

Step 4:

Now we set the blurred black and white layer to blending mode Overlay and Opacity 50%. This gives us a slightly surreal blurring on the image. BE WARNED: This effect (blurring then overlaying) is a bit of favorite of amateurs, so go easy on it. When you do use it, make sure you fade it out a reasonable amount so it doesn't look too tacky.

Step 5:

Now the lighting is pretty nice already, but I'd like some pinkish hues in the image as it makes the image a lot warmer than bluish colors.So in a new layer, use the Paintbucket to fill with a bright pink color. Then use the Eraser Tool with a large, soft brush and remove some areas where you don't want as much pink to shine through (this was pretty arbitrary for me and just gives the image more depth rather it being uniformly colored). We then set the blending mode to Color and 20% Opacity. Actually I did those two steps the other way around (I blended first then erased the bits I didn't want).

Step 6:

Here's the image after adding the pink.

Step 7:

Now to make the sun rays, we are going to use a combination of glowing edges and radial blurring. So duplicate the original colored layer and put it on top of all the other layers. Then go to Filter > Stylize > Glowing Edges and use settings of 1, 11, and 15 respectively for Width, Brightness, and Smoothness.

Step 8:

Now we go to Filter > Blur > Radial Blur and apply settings as shown. Make sure that you have set the blur method to Zoom (not Spin). Also importantly move the Blur Center until it's roughly in the position of the image where the woman was standing, i.e. where the 'sun' is going to be. You may have to do this a couple of times to get the positioning exactly right because it's a bit trial and error.

Once you've got it, apply the Radial Blur again by pressing Ctrl+F (to repeat the last filter used).

Step 9:

Now set the blending mode for this layer to Screen.

Screen blending mode basically knocks out darker colors to only leave the lighter ones. This is the opposite to Multiply which knocks out any lighter colors and just leaves darker ones. This is really handy for when you have say a logo on a white background and you want to apply it to an image but don't want to cut it out - instead you just set it to Multiply (or Screen if it's on black).

Step 10:

To get the light looking more like sunlight, we go to Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation and tick the box that says Colorize to add some more color to the light rays. Then move the sliders around until you get a reddish tint and press OK.

Step 11:

Now repeat the process (Glowing Edges > Radial Blur > Screening the Image) a couple of times to get more light rays as shown. Try moving the Radial Zoom filter around a little to get different casts of light to mix together.

Also as you add extra layers on you can always use the Eraser tool to remove some parts of a layer and leave others so that they blend together well. This is generally a matter of playing around with the image until it looks right. Also note that you can use Layer Masks to do this without losing any image data, but because I never used Masks when I was learning Photoshop, out of habit I still do things the old (and probably a bit dumb) way :-)

Step 12:

Next we want to add the big glowing center to the image. So create a new layer on top of all the others and get a large, soft brush and with White as your foreground color paint a blob of white over where the woman's silhouette is.

Step 13:

To this blob of white, we now add an Outer Glow of yellow set to Overlay (as shown). You can do this by right clicking on the layer and selecting Blending Options.

Step 14:

Now in your tools palette choose the Smudge Tool (R) which you can see in the image. Using your mouse, smudge your ball of light outwards. Note that in the image shown, I've done some pretty big smudges so you can see roughly what we're doing, but in reality you should make smaller, more subtle smudges.

What you are trying to do here is give it a burst of light feel. You might want to duplicate the layer and have a couple of them together which is what I've done in the sample PSD.

Step 15:

Now what sunset would be complete without a lens flare? Rather than using the filter though just create a new layer on top and draw a circle as shown and fill it with white. Set it to blending mode Overlay and about 10% Opacity. Then create a new layer and do the same with a smaller circle and repeat again a couple of times until you have a subtle lens flare as shown.

Then merge the layers together and set it all to about 30% because we want this to be really subtle!

Step 16:

Now in new layers we paste in some of our vector images. I've used a sort of swirly wing thing from Arsenal's Freebie Section and also the capital letter A from a font called Porcelain, which you can get from Misprinted Type for free.

I chose both because they have lots of lines and swirls which fits what I want to do. I also duplicated the swirly wing vector, flipped it by going to Edit > Transform > Flip Horizontal, then Ctrl+T to scaled it down in the transform menu. That way its good for little details.

Step 17:

Now fit the three images together as shown. When we switch them to white, we want most of the objects to be obscured with just bits of swirl poking out the edges.

Step 18:

So now for each layer we press Ctrl+I to invert the color from Black to White and then right-click the layers and select Blending Options. Then we add an Outer Glow as shown to make them fit in with the main ball of light.

Step 19:

You should now have something that looks like the image below.

Step 20:

Now for the final touches, I've added some text using the font Chalet which is wonderfully elegant but isn't too over the top. Note that you might feel tempted to add a swirly, cursive type font for text, but this would be overkill. It's much better to contrast the complexity of the main image with a very simple and understated type treatment (in my opinion). Anyhow as you can see I've placed it near the center of the image.

Looking at the final image, I also decided it needed a little more color so I added a layer at the very top filled with a reddish color (#957070) and set it to Overlay at 30%. This warms up the image a little more, and you'll see that layer in the final shot.

Final Image:

And finally we're all done. Click the image below for the high-res version of our finished product!

Sample PSD

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    hvdesigns September 28th

    excellent 5 stars again ;)

    your effects are great

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    Martin September 28th

    Great Tut! Can’t wait to try this. Keep up the good work.

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    giackop September 28th

    Wow amazing!!!!!!! Very very nice..

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    mediamelt September 28th

    You rule. Keep em, coming. :)

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    Smart Man September 28th

    Could you do an example of how you come up with a website design?

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    JD September 28th

    I just found this site but after reading this one tutorial I am definitely bookmarking it and reading through the rest of the site when I get the chance. Easily one of the best tutorials I’ve come across in a while, as far as image enhancing goes.

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    Matthew September 28th

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    Zeb September 28th

    Yours tutorials are great, as usual !! Great !!

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    Jason September 28th

    The most easy-to-follow and informative PSD tutorials I have ever found online. I am forever devoted to this site and look forward to more, more, MORE!

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    Hyder September 28th

    Awesome tutorial once again Collis. It’s amazing how simple it is to build once you know how to do it. But getting to that point takes years of practice.

    Thanks again.

    P.S – I hope you have some tutorials on making logos, modifying fonts and such, coming in the future.

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    Dao September 28th

    Great tutorial! very well written.

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      Great tutorial!

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    This site has become a place to visit daily.
    Your tutorials are really good, they show things I haven’t see before, and are very informative. Two thumbs up!

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    Martín September 28th

    The effect looks very nice. Keep up the good work!

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    Tim September 28th

    Woooooowww… thx for the great source of inspiration !!!
    Love it !!!

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    Shadowfax September 28th

    Wonderful. Forget the tutorials. I love to come to your site to soak in the visual beauties u create

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    Shadowfax September 28th

    I would also like to create various radiant lines around various shapes, objects, logos. I have some Ideas now and for that I am indebted to you but i am looking forward to some aurora effect with more subtler styles

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    DS September 28th

    //speechless//

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    Great tutorial, very nice effect for wallpapers and whatnot. Keep ‘em coming!

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    This site is becoming really helpful, I’m a design student trying to get my head around Photoshop and your tutorials have taught me more than most of my tutors do :)

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    That is amazing. That is some really nice photoshop skills, guess some have it and some have to come to figure it out ;)

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    Steve September 28th

    Brilliant tutorial, lovely end result, going to have to give it a try myself later.

    Thanks for the post

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    very nice really I like it

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    Free stock photos September 28th

    Love your tutorials, keep it up Collis!

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    Very good tutorial!!!!
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    Just wondered if you had ever considered screen capture software to make tutorial videos?
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    I suppose the bandwidth might be an issue then?..
    Thanks and keep it up!

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    great tutorial!!

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    brandy September 28th

    very nice! it’s great to see you explaining things further now. each tutorial gets better than the next!

    others have mentioned they want tutorials for things like logo design and website design. i’d actually advise you against this… i don’t think anyone can really learn how to design a logo just from a photoshop tutorial! obviously, logo design and the like involves lots of work beyond the actual technical process.

    also, your website is very specifically called PSDTuts, which means (to me) that you should just do tutorials on image creation and manipulation using photoshop as a tool. people can then decide for themselves where the effects you teach are most appropriate to use.

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    your technique is great, but your ability to see effective light, colour and composition is absolutely fantastic. of course, it’s a little more difficult to offer a tutorial in “what looks good.” ;-)

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    I agree with what Brandy said (above). I think your tutorials teach fundamentals of manipulation, while true to rules of aesthetics and appealing design. Your tutorials end up looking professional, whereas many manipulation tutorials elsewhere end up overdone and amateur looking. Thanks for the beautiful work!

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    excellent tutorial. There is a lot of solid stuff in there to learn from.
    Thanks!

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    Great use of Arsenal elements, it’s not too obvious. Nice and subtle!

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    Great tutorial, thanks!

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    Awesome tutorial, looks like the perfect album cover as well.

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    Awesome! Do you do any Final Cut/Motion work? ;-)

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    This tutorial brought to you by the awesome power of Overlay =)

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    Very impressive! I am always delighted to see people who use PS as a tool to creative surreal effects.

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    thats brilliant! I never thought of that, especially the sun rays…awesome. I’m going to start trying that out myself. :)

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    Great Tutorial. I haven’t used it yet. But I’m looking for a client project I can incorporate this into. Thanks.

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    Awesome Tutorial!! :)
    The final result looks really great!!

    1 question ;) , i wrote a tutorial and submitted it.
    How long will it take for a reply about accepted / rejected?

    Could you let me know, i would appreciate it :)

    Kind Regards,

    Headshot

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    Awesome!

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    Kelvin September 30th

    WOW! that’s a great tutorial. I have been using some of your tutorials on some of my projects. It gave me brilliant effects and bascialy WOW-ed people.

    for this tutorial, may i ask where did u find your Chalet font from? i love it.

    Thanks.

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    Thnx 4 this =)

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    Fast server; I hit upwards towards 2Mb/sec downloading the PSD file. Great tutorial! Keep it up!

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    Awesome Tutorial!
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    your tutorials make me speecless…

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    Levi Figueira October 1st

    My first reaction when I opened this was: … (silence… awe! :o )

    I will use this technique someday, but the most useful thing to me was the fonts you presented. That cursive is exactly what I’ve been looking for for an idea I’ve been having!!

    Thank you so much! :D

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    Cool, you are my favorite photoshop tutorial

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    Thanks for this, great tutorial as always!

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    Great tutorial once again, learned some techniques I will use in other images.

    The multiply and screen for cut-outs….never even thought of that!

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    super!!!!!!!!!!
    looking like exibhition invitation card

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    great tutorial, i was searching for somethig like this ..thanx!!!

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    You’re tutorials are simply awesome. Thanks for sharing it.

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    Absolutely fantastic site, lovely design, excellent use of icons. really great images! keep up the good work!

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    Great Tutorial. Thank you.

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    Tommy Lee October 4th

    ok so i did everyting like u said just when it came to the vector image it wouldnt save or instal right idk if i did it wrong but how can i get that free pack thing from go media

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    Jimbo October 4th

    Great Tutorial, I must know, Where did you get the Chalet Font from? Please e-mail me when you can :)

    Jimbo

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    Great tutorial man.

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    wow…!……..really nice one.

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    You rule man. HARD.

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    Super! I’ll try use it for a brochure design.
    I hope it works at 300dpi…

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    very Goods

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    Great tut man! i love it. i tried it and has come out well. want to see more from you :)

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    Wow, amazing! Thanks!

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    I have visited your site 255-times

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    Erik October 8th

    Sweet effect!
    Really dig this one!

    Great work, keep it up! =)

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    Boris October 8th

    Greth tutorial i want to be there.

    Thanks!

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    nice tutorial, thx a lot !

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    shinu October 9th

    Mind-blowing… Great man. Thanks 10 out of 10 points

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    Daniel Costa October 9th

    Amazing effect! Congrats!

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    J Bobbink October 9th

    Thank’s again for such a nice tutorial! Keep up the good work!

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    Martha October 10th

    Wow! Great tutorial! I’m now inspired to read more and learn more! Thanks, keep them comin’!!

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    mossiwo October 10th

    Awesome! you have perfected the technique, great way to go! I’ll give it a try.

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    rachel October 10th

    This is beautiful. Thanks for the tutorial, I can’t wait to try it out!

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    Ian Farrell October 10th

    You really should get a book of tutorials out, you have some amazing techniques!

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    Awesome tuts… some of the best i’ve ever seen!!!

    Well Done!

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    Chibone October 11th

    Sweet

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    Eduardo Guerrero October 11th

    Excelente, muchas gracias !!!

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    R3D October 11th

    Oh my god, really nice. I always wondered how people made these kind of pictures. Or I was to lazy to try it myself ;o)
    Thanx for sharing!!!

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    M.Gökhan AKSAN October 12th

    This work is so great ! Congrulations !

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    sorry… -> congratulations

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    Iman October 12th

    Great!
    Keep up the creative work
    :)

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    Soumya October 12th

    Another superb tutorial! Your tutorials teach quality stuff! It’s very, very helpful for amateurs like me! Thanks a lot! Keep up the good work!

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    eliwagar October 13th

    Thank you very much for this great tutorial! Just did my own piece and I love it…if anybody want to see it: your welcome to visit my Site :) …I love the glowing edges effect! Thank you so much for sharing!

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    emol October 13th

    wow.. cool.. colors are very smooth but contrast in tone.. love it!

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    KoLdSnow October 15th

    hmm, i cant get the vector swirly shape from arsenal freebies
    T.T) where i can get them..

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    dillip October 15th

    Great tutorial

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    Aroldo Contreras October 15th

    WOOOW! so F***** awesome!! De maravilla! Saludos Desde Venezuela! xD

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    Cristine October 15th

    It’s a very nice……
    but how can u remove the watermark

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    SATORi October 16th

    Hi, Great work! Excellent. You make it look so simple yet it takes a great amount of time and hardwork to get such effects!

    However, I am getting a problem as I can’t get the “Glowing Edges” effect of the sun’s rays to come on the picture. Is it because I applied the previous layer’s colour to half of the picture vertically?

    Not have the ray’s effect really distorts the image as a whole.

    I would like to get a reply from you ASAP as I am working on something and it’s taking some time to finish it due to the ray’s problem which also causes smuding problems x_x.

    Regards,

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    Edgar October 16th

    Ja wie por favor!

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    Tanja October 16th

    Awesome, beautifull, here’s mine:

    http://shmizlicka.deviantart.com/art/corfu-66976963

    not so good as yours!

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    Brad October 17th

    Jumpin’ Jesus on a Pogo Stick!!!! This tutorial ROCKS!!!!! Thanks! :)

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    Frankey October 17th

    oh emm gee..
    this is awesome..
    but its difficult to understand..
    i got lost on the step 8..
    ):

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    solon October 18th

    cool tutorial men

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    greetings from vzla XD

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    非常漂亮，谢谢分享

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    RebelDesigner October 19th

    Nice nice nice… wish I had 3 dollars to offer you Coffee, but you deserve whole one moth supply of coffee after this tutorial.

    Thankyou

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    Hi nice tut look out my portfolio http://www.rephixartlab.com

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    woooooooooohhhhhhhhhh………..Excellent. Very very Nice

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    nice!

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    kirby October 22nd

    this is such a good desine.

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    Juha October 22nd

    Wow, this was simply amazing tutorial! Thanks!

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    Joe October 23rd

    Best Tutorial Site on the net. Well done.

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    Jenny October 23rd

    Great tutorial. I tried it, but I didn’t do to well. I’ll try again some other time.

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    Bobi October 23rd

    Awesome, Keep at that way.

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    rubens October 24th

    please…translate for português – brazil. thanks.

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    Swany October 24th

    Great Tutorial.

    You can view my take at your tutorial here

    you can also view Swany’s Portfolio Web Site here

    Thanks!

    Swany

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    danjay motee October 25th

    great site , great tutorial

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    MegamaN October 29th

    Wow. I like it. :D

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    lyying October 31st

    it’s cool… dam nice.. i like it

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    joseki November 3rd

    yuh amına koyim ne lan bu ÅŸerefsizler vallaha ebesini sikmisler fotoÅŸotun kasiyim bari de yaparim heralde…vay amına koyim yaa
    kim yaptıysa elini öpem

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    Michael Sågerås November 6th

    I´m so impressed of your excellent work and the tutorials you show are easy to understand even for a swedish man:-)

    I´ve bookmarked you and I´ll come back for more.

    Thank you

    Michael from Sweden

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    Custom Icons November 7th

    Great tutorial. Simple and easy to follow.
    Thanks!

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    OUSSAMA November 7th

    JUST GREAT WORK AGAIN!!!!
    WELL!!!
    I’M NOT GAY!
    BUT I MUST SAY THIS: I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!!!!!!

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    伊沙 November 9th

    很漂亮 如果有中文版的就好了

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    marta November 9th

    precioso¡¡¡¡ elegantisimo efecto y resultados maravillosos¡¡¡

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    Panagiote November 10th

    Nice

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    punyeta November 10th

    wow!!!! really awesome!

    really outstanding…

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    sean steezy November 14th

    yes. awesome techniques esp. the glowing edges thing. thank you.

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    Helen November 15th

    Thanks so much for the tutorial – it works really well! You are awesomely-awesome for putting it up, so *bow*

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    $N3yD3n November 17th

    Awesome, it looks great & thks 4 the tips………

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    tricker November 20th

    excellent work… :)

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    Steve November 27th

    Damned Good Tut, thanks.

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    Tony November 27th

    coool things

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    RyZeL7 November 27th

    really.. really superb

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    Gozde November 28th

    You are amazing! I just find your site, everything looks great, and also this tutorial is great! =)
    Thanks alot for sharing!

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    TheDarkRabbit November 28th

    http://TheDarkRabbit.deviantart.com/art/a-burning-cross-70846132

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    shark December 2nd

    In Step 16:
    How do you open the vector images??

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    abdul hameed December 3rd

    very nice tutorial image site ,,,,::: your work is excellent,, ::::

    take care

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    cristofer December 8th

    your work is great!
    i’m inspired!

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    kofty December 10th

    I just found this site today… and… WOW! I’m bookmarking this. And I bought ya a coffee haha

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    Sanket S December 15th

    Can you elaborate more on the procedure used to import the vector art from the .EPS file
    when i import any art from the .eps file into a new image in photshop and i try to scale it
    to a higher size it becomes pixelated , how did you resize it exactly.

    This is my problem
    Image: http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/1087/queryqo3.png

    Please help me with this.

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    hossein December 17th

    very nice effect
    thank you

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    Angad Sodhi December 26th

    Great tutorial man!
    Keep it up!

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    onezzz December 27th

    full star!!!!

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    du-an December 28th

    Exellent!

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    petistovka January 16th

    Cool! Thank you.

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    cekay January 19th

    Very nice tips here. Thank you!
    They should add a preview function to the radial blur function :)

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    Ola January 21st

    Just stumbled upon your site and really I appreciate what you’ve done here. Many thanks. I’ve gone through a few of the Tuts and they’ve been of great help. Thanks once again.

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    bratwurst January 29th

    “We’re not worthy! We’re not worthy!” Seriously, this is the best piece of photoshop art ive evr seen so far

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    Brian February 1st

    I tried this… and it came out beautifully. I also tried the “dusk lighting” one too…. perfection.

    These are some great tutorials, cant wait to see some more that appeal to me.

    Keep it rockin.

    -Brian Gerbetz

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    sunny February 7th

    good stuffs… I see a lot…

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    laxmikant February 12th

    Hi

    This is laxmikanty freelance webdesigner from Hyderabad- India.

    Your work is awsome dude.

    Great to see you work and request keep the same spirit with you and guide us the new tips and tricks.

    Thank a lot for you sharing you knowledge with us.

    FIVE PIONTS

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    shaila February 13th

    simple.
    coherent
    i absolutely love what you can teach.
    may you live long and prosperous
    teaching us the ways of the PS

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    shavonn3 February 17th

    wow i luv this was very except for where u had to add the vectors i was confused but i soon figure’d it out this help me out alot

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    Andreas February 27th

    Pretty good
    Here is mine

    http://MyStyleDea.bilddagboken.se/index.php?main=L3Avc2hvdy5odG1sP2lkPTE3MDkzNTA3OCZ0PTEyMDM5ODA0MDEmY3VycmltZz0z

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    Pentel March 4th

    Unbelievable aye? With only the use of the simple effects that photoshop has to offer to make such striking design. Impressive.

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    sabdiel March 8th

    I see all tutorials and I think tha all are excelents, I don´t speack english but I undertain everything, you work very well. thank……

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    sachinKT March 10th

    wow… very nice tutorial thanks..

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    rob March 11th

    Incredible! I’ve been looking for some tuts on this kind of stuff. Just came across the site and rated it as high as I could on CSS Remix. Keep up the great work. I’ll definitely be visiting often.

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    krishnamoorthy manickam March 12th

    Nice tips and useful also…

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    gimp March 16th

    i hope you don’t mind but were trying to re-create this effect with gimp here http://gimper.net/index.php?topic=219.15 were using your psd for images sources. is that ok?

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    n6 March 22nd

    …::: T H A N KS F O R S H A R I N G :::….

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    BenRulz March 25th

    Thnks for the amazing tutorial….had fun doing this one….amazing style ….simple yet elegant……
    Keep At It…!!
    O_o

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    AMAR March 27th

    hey MAN!!!!
    u r gr8…………..
    truly speakin i never felt tht photoshop was is tht difficult whn i was editin th pic with ur blogs help……
    thank you very much.
    keeep some more editon here………

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    rehan April 5th

    oooooooooooooo hhhhhhhhhhhhhh
    very nise

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    Gimper April 16th

    one of our members manged to get this tutorial done in GIMP :)
    http://gimp-tutorials.net/dusky-lighting-effects-in-gimp

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    pxlchic April 24th

    just like everything else here at PSDTUTS..this is quality workmanship..absolutely superb.I am new to photoshop and i have to say this site and it’s members are top notch!
    loved this tut..will use it later.Thanks for inspiration

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    Danny May 9th

    Really an excellent effect…

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    DAVID LYNCH May 9th

    I hate it when artists show some tutorials and skip steps such as when you did you blur a few more times. I cant get it like you did, since you went ahead a few steps and expect people to know how to do exactly what you did. Next time show all your steps. I would appreciate it.

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    SAM May 23rd

    Rocking!!! You guys RULES

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    Paulszukerman May 24th

    Love this site really good info.

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    alexander_sp May 27th

    A great tutorial … incredible….Congratulation

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    Joe Imes June 4th

    beautiful, not another victim of photoshop

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    ZaFaR June 10th

    wow.. cool.. colors are very smooth but contrast in tone.. love it!

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    shiv June 24th

    it’s creativity!

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    Rajesh July 6th

    An excellent tutorial, I have submitted your tutorial to PSLinks
    Super Slick Dusky Lighting Effects in Photoshop

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    Dan July 9th

    More tutorials like this. This is one of my all time favorite tuts here.

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    evan July 23rd

    very nice!

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    Atualizado July 26th

    Very nice tutorial !
    incredible effect….
    Congratulation

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    aankun August 17th

    i love the light effect, very nice :)

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    Benjamin Sathyanandam September 2nd

    This is really good.. Simply excellent. Thanks for the tutorial and keep up the good work… I have learnt somethig new and valuable today…

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    Xed September 8th

    brilliant technique.

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    pohkoon September 12th

    wow great sharing you have! i have tried you tutorial, was so nice.. and i learn something new today..thanks!

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    Photoshop Brushes September 19th

    Damn Collis, you are so good. Thanks again@!

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    Ali Raza September 21st

    Thanks. Now i am able to make light steaks…Great work

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    rashida September 22nd

    im pretty new to photoshop… but all the pics i’ve browsed on istockphoto is REALLY expensive… just curious how this one is $4..???

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    athelionravi September 24th

    I saw this effect a lot of time of Trance Album Covers and I always wanted to know how this final work was achieved. I am so thrilled that I stumbled finally on a tutorial that could shed some lights on this matter.

    Hey there, thanks a lot for this tutorial. Please post some more!!!!

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    Niclas October 14th

    I cant get the sun rays, I do exactly as u say but no rays appearing… :S

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    droble October 14th

    awesome. im a web designer, and ivent been tutored much, mainly because ive always been against it. wow, but this rocks!

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    First steps Designer November 7th

    i CANT GET THE HUE AND SATURATION AT STEP 10! THE WHILE IMAGE GET COLERED AND BY THE WAY MM IM USING A SPANISH VERSION OF PHOTOSHOP, CAN U TELL ME WICH IS THE SCREEN BLENDING MODE IN SPANISH??

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    Isis December 8th

    Love this tutorials which make me learn a lot of different techniques which are usable not just for an specific image, but for everything.

    Thanks for share your idea with us.

    =D

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    rahul sahu December 12th

    it is very use full design . thanks

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    rendermx January 15th

    Thanks a lot :)

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    MikeM January 16th

    Great way to combine multiple photos and text.

    -chicago website design

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    Andy January 21st

    OMG!! It’s beautiful. Thanks for Photoshop tutorial

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    prashant February 3rd

    Great way to combine multiple photos and text.

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    Refresh February 4th

    Brilliant !!!

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    Nix February 6th

    I want to learn it .but, my English doesn’t very good.
    i don’t understand all,who can help me?

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    Gandhi February 21st

    mind blowing

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    Amjad Miandad February 25th

    Thanks budy,
    Every tutorial in this site is helping me lot in building up my PS skills

    Thanks again.

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    st0rm March 6th

    Big respects! I did the music for all the desktoptopography. It is great to see the inspiration of their art go back into the creation of the art itself for the future generations to come. Well done, good Karma and happy vibes man…

    Chilled greetz
    St0rm

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    Clay March 21st

    Great tutorial man, here is my contribution thanks to your expert tutorial.

    http://s669.photobucket.com/albums/vv57/slovmeister/?action=view&current=solo_design_bg.jpg

    Thanks

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    kuldeep singh April 11th

    Great, 5 star. i think ur r best

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    JP April 16th

    Extremely nice!

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    Gyrel Dagooc April 26th

    Wow! Stunning!

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    Sara April 26th

    Amazing, simply amazing. This is such a good tutorial and it is wonderful.

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    Rayner June 10th

    EXTREMELY AWESOME!!!!

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    BHARATH July 7th

    I HAVE NO WORDS TO EXPLAIN U R CREATIVITY U R AWESOME>……………..

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    ariz July 11th

    thank’s yach master ,it’s very good

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    abhi July 11th

    excellent
    thanks a lot..

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    Landscape Photography July 15th

    Really beautiful effect, thanks for posting.

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    Egypt Web design July 16th

    excellent 5 stars

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    Nikolle August 8th

    Thank you so much for sharing with us your talent.

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    xenaire August 31st

    Fine..I have seen this effect but wondering till now how did they do that.Today I can say I can do that with a help of a friend.
    Thanks to you for sharing and want some more.

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    ramchand September 25th

    Great!

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    Irene October 13th

    this is fantastic!! tq so much for the tutorial..

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    tonella October 13th

    Greatlooking picture. I tried something similar…and thanks for inspiration

    Here is my work:

    http://tonela.deviantart.com/art/Sunset-140174401

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    Santosh Prasad October 16th

    Your Grt Tut ! we can learn a so much 4m dis site wow

    Really Awesome Works . After seeing this i thought we

    can do Every Thing in Photoshop. Really Great Wrok

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    ralph October 31st

    Nice art..love it…hope i can learn something like that…two thumbs up..!!

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    Meredith Limbaugh November 10th

    Great tutorial! I have a photoshop tutorial blog also. You should check it out – I’d love to get your take on how I could improve.

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    Art Expressions November 25th

    This is my first time on your site and it not only showed me precisely what effect I was looking for a logo design but was explained beautifully! Very easy to understand and thorough. I will definitely be browsing more of your tutorials. Many MANY Thanks

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    Fotoandmore December 25th

    The effect looks very nice.Great!

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    satya December 27th

    Very Nice tutorial

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    afino December 28th

    Cool I like it! 5 points!

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    ken December 28th

    For me it is the effects that I am looking often from websites. Luckily I found it here…I give you five (5) stars. bravo

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    Mehran January 1st

    Thank you for your the best tutorials, you are my good friends:-)

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    Mehran January 1st

    you are the best!

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    Brii January 5th

    this was GREAT! i tried and i succeeded at doing this! but do yo know how to make the sort of lighted swirls around people on photoshop?

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    In Style January 12th

    Excellent lightning effect!

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    Nudels January 29th

    Thanks for the tutorial.

    Here’s mine:

    http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=106051&l=600260231b&id=100000429755324

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