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Before we begin, let's take a look at the image we're creating

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Now let's start!

Step 1

Open this image and resize it if you want. First of all, we will enhance the color of our
image by using an old trick but still valuable.

Change your image's mode to Lab Color by going to Image > Mode > Lab Color. If you
switch to Channels tab, you can see there are four channels (they are named Lab,
Lightness, a and b). We can use "a" channel to enhance our image.

Create a new layer and set the blending mode to Soft Light, as you see below:
Go to Image > Apply Image and use these settings:

It is simple, isn't it? But now you can realize your image has been changed, click on the
Eye icon near the Layer 1 several times to feel the change if you don't believe!

Press Ctrl-E to merge the 2 layers and change your image to RGB mode by going to
Image > Mode > RGB Color.

Step 2

Create a new layer and fill it with black. Go to Filter > Render > Lens Flare and choose
105mm Prime. Remember to place your lens flare in the center of our image.
Step 3

Change the Blending Mode of this layer to Screen. If you don't see your Len flare in the
center of our galaxy then go back and correct your lens flare location at step 2.

Go to Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation (or press Ctrl-U). For this image I used 18
for Hue, 57 for Saturation and 0 for Lightness but these values depend on the image
you use
Step 4

Create a new layer and change the Blending Mode to Overlay so that it interacts with the
dark and bright colors of our image. Reset your foreground to white and background to
black (press D and X). Use the Gradient Tool (G) with Foreground to Background and
Reflected Gradient options

draw it from the center and you will achieve the result as shown below
Select the Eraser Tool (E) and set the eraser's opacity to 100% to wipe everything
EXCEPT the light we created in the previous step. This step will make our image brighter

Step 5

Press Ctrl-J to duplicate your current layer. Go to Edit > Transform > Scale and rotate it
a bit. Press Enter to leave this mode

Repeat this step several times until you get the following result:
Step 6

Create a new layer and select the Gradient Tool (G). Keep the previous settings and
draw a line as we did previously, but notice that we DO NOT use Overlay mode
Step 7

Change is blending mode to Screen. Go to Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation and
use these settings
Step 8

Select the Burn Tool and drag along our light to make it thinner. The more you trace, the
thinner it becomes. Here is my image after this step:

Step 9

Now we will add some glowing lights in the center with the Pen Tool. But first, we need to
make some adjustments with the Brush Tool.

Select the Brush Tool and look on the right toolbar until you find an icon named
"Brush" (you can see it in the next image). Click on it, tick on the Shape Dynamics
checkbox and choose a soft brush size
Use the Pen Tool (P) and draw a nice curve. If you don't do it right, press Delete and try
again. When you finished right, right click and choose Stroke Path.

Choose Brush from the drop-down box and make sure to tick on the Simulate Pressure
checkbox

Delete the path you just created by pressing Delete twice

Double click on the current layer to bring up the Layer Style dialog, choose Outer Glow
and use these settings:

Step 10
Press Ctrl-J to duplicate this layer, go to Edit > Transform > Scale to scale and rotate it

Step 11

This step is very simple, just use the Rough Round Bristle brush to decorate our light, I
leave this step for you.

And the final result is shown below... what will you say ^_^ ?
Two things I think are really cool in this tutorial are to apply the Overlay blending mode
and the Burn Tool to make our lights more appealing

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Comments

Ngoc Hai 06-12-2008

Nice Tutorials but I have a problem.In fifth step I can't do it, when I duplicate it didn't like
your result, It's more dark ....

lol 06-12-2008

dude this is soo ugly. Look for some greg martin tutorials they rock, there not about ur
lame sun beam thingy bug, for making planets and starfields and if u take some time doing
those u will rock

admin 06-13-2008

To Ngoc Hai: you have to change your layer blending mode to Overlay

Hayden 06-15-2008

Having trouble with step 9. when i use the Pen Tool it fills it in white and i don't have the
option of Stroke Path. If anyone can help me, Thanks

Casinha 06-21-2008

Hayden, when you use the Pen tool, there should be a toolbar up top with a "Paths" icon
(a box with the Pen icon inside it), select that. That should change it from the "Shape
Layers" it was probably on in the first place. I had the same problem and was randomly
clicking until it worked :)

me 08-21-2008

nice tut but is so hard

jamnold 08-21-2008

wow that is great i could make it but some problem while i scle and rotate it havenot
worked well
thanks

tin 08-22-2008

thnx for this tutorial.. but my problem is the step 4 coz d rays that i made were thicker than
what you did.. hahah.. i did erase the other parts so it will become thinner but it will
obviously see the erased parts. i dont know how to this thing.. ^^

Kyon 08-27-2008

Cool a lil hard,but i got it.

Anonymous 08-29-2008

the pen bit is so dam hard!!!!!

Murugan 09-07-2008

realy this tutorial is simply super

kandarpa kachari 09-22-2008

it was cool!!! i try to do it but hang on step 4

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