12 Top Quality Photoshop Light Effect Tutorials

Below are a few Photoshop light effect tutorials that have caught my eye while looking over the tutorial sites, for me these produce the best results while using brushes, blurs and other media such as textures to create a top quality effect.

Create Awesome Abstract Nebula Circle Shape in Photoshop

Covers using filters with textures such as the twirl filter and warp filter with a Nebula star texture making for impressive results.

Create Awesome Abstract Nebula Circle Shape in Photoshop

Create a Colorful Aged Poster With Special Lighting Effects

You’ll learn how to use texture and adjustment layers to create an aging effect on a colorful abstract poster design.

Create a Colorful Aged Poster With Special Lighting Effects

Create a Surreal Girl with a Raven Composition in Photoshop Tutorial

Loads of great tricks in this tutorial. If you want to take your creative composition skills to the next level, this Photoshop tutorial is perfect for you as it involves illustration, textures and Photoshop.

Create a Surreal Girl with a Raven Composition in Photoshop Tutorial

The Making of “Constant Slip”

This is more a process description of making this illustration, than a detailed step by step how to, but is very detailed and can lead to some very creative ways of achieving light effects.

The Making of Constant Slip

Achieve Brilliant Lighting Effects in Photoshop

Using default brushes, blending options and a few stock images, you’ll learn step by step a variety of techniques that you can use in your own digital artworks to achieve professional results.

Achieve Brilliant Lighting Effects in Photoshop

Add Brilliant Light Effects to Your Work with Photoshop

Several super easy techniques for incorporating remarkable light effects to your work using Photoshop. Including making your own set of abstract brushes and working with textures.

Add Brilliant Light Effects to Your Work with Photoshop

Create a Cosmic-Inspired Dreamy Scene in Photoshop

A demonstration of how to use stock photography, 3d elements, and various techniques to create a cosmic-inspired Photoshop master piece.

Create a Cosmic-Inspired Dreamy Scene in Photoshop

Create A Gorgeous Light Effect Using Photoshop

Using soft brushes and smoke textures allows you to create simple yet effective light effect all is explained.

Create A Gorgeous Light Effect Using Photoshop

Creating a Surreal Smoking Bird Composition in Photoshop

Making a monochromatic scene with the subject being a bird with smoke surrounding its body. Using a high contrast stock image combined with smoke brushes.

Creating a Surreal Smoking Bird Composition in Photoshop

How to enhance your subjects with striking light effects in Photoshop

A simple technique that can be used to enhance any kind of subject with stunning light effects. Using a particular selection tools, gradients and brushes to achieve the result.

How to enhance your subjects with striking light effects in Photoshop

MSNBC New Background Design in Photoshop

Plenty and blur effects and colours to create a simple vibrant background.

MSNBC New Background Design in Photoshop

Show me the light digital art tutorial

How to use stock images to make a beautiful digital artwork with nicely colored lights, All you need for this tutorial is the provided colors in Motion textures pack and a model.

Show me the light digital art tutorial

Comments

Have any favourite Photoshop light effect tutorials let us know in the comments, also if there are any that aren’t on the list that are awesome let us know in the comments or on Twitter thanks.

16 Great Photoshop Light Effect Tutorials

I’ve selected various Photoshop tutorials that I’m liking at the moment for light effects, some have quite cool techniques on how to achieve the end result that can be applied to a million different designs (try and experiment with them), check them out below.

You might also enjoy:

Design a Vista Styled Wallpaper

vista-style

Windows Vista Aurora Effect

vista-aurora

Design a Vibrant Blackberry Inspired Ad

vibrant-blackberry-ad

NoPattern “Jumper” Effect

nopattern-jumper-effect

Mysterious Lighting Effect

mysterious-lighting

How to Create Brilliant Light Streaks

light-streaks

Creating a Mac-Type Background

mac-type-bg

Luminescent Lines

luminescent-lines

Create a Glowing Light Painting Effect

glowing-light

Abstract Dust And Spray Effect

dust-and-spray

Make a dreamy abstract background

dreamy-abstract

Digital Bokeh effect

bokeh-effect

Abstract Lines Background

abstract-lines

Abstract Light Rays

abstract-light-rays

Drawing an Abstract Lightbulb

abstract-lightbulb

How to create 3D abstract circles

3d-abstract-circles

Comments

Do you have any favourite tutorials that you have seen for light effects?

Create a stunning grunge background – A video Tutorial

With the release of my 300+ hi-res grunge texture pack i thought id do a nice quick simple video tutorial to create a stunning grunge background using the colours from a photo on deviant art and a texture from the texture pack,

The result from this method creates a cool background that could be used for the basis of a poster, showing off your work or as web site background etc. just add your own cool designs to the mix.

This is what we shall be creating:

Using the colours from “Be nimble”:

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The Online Video tutorial


Watch the HD version here

Download Files

  1. Stock Image (deviant art link) Credit to anaritalanca on deviantart
  2. Slate Texture Right Click – Save As

Download Video Tutorial Versions

  1. HD Version (66 mb)
  2. ipod Version (20 mb)

A cool background made simple, if some one could test the ipod version for me and tell me what it is like that would be great as I don’t have an ipod, and I cant preview it that would be awesome. Thanks for looking and don’t forget about the RSS feed.