Hello again, in this tutorial I want to cover a couple of techniques, namely
- Glows using layer styles
- Stroking paths
- Particles using brush dynamics
- Bokeh effect
The PSD and full size image can be found at the bottom of this post and we’re
going to draw a lightbulb:
[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذه الصورة]Step 1:Create a new document, 1600×1200 and fill the 1st layer in black. Then set
your primary colour to white and set your brush hardness to 0% and a size of
30. Create a 2nd layer and then use the pen tool to draw the coils of the
lightbulb. Once finished, right mouse on the path and select
stroke
path and make sure simulate pressure is ticked.
[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذه الصورة] Step 2:Add inner and outer glows to the resulting line to produce a suitable glow
effect. I used an outer glow size of 27 with a mid orange and an inner glow
size of 5 with a slightly lighter orange. Next, click on the paths tab to
reselect your coils path, change your brush size to 7 and set it to 25%
hardness, create a new layer and stroke the path again, and again add inner and
outer glow layer styles. Finally move each smaller coil a few pixels so that
they’re not directly overlayed on top of each other. (Repeat this process twice
to achieve the effect below)
[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذه الصورة]Step 3:Next we’re going to create the particles around the coils. Click on your
brush tool and enter Brush Dynamics. Set hardness to 0%, spacing to 1000%, tick
shape dynamics and set size jitter to 1000%, tick scattering and set scatter
jitter to 1000% percent
[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذه الصورة]Create a new layer, then with these brush settings, paint
around your coils. Once finished, copy the layer style from one of the coils
and paste it onto this layer. Next customize the layer style so that it
resembles something like this:
[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذه الصورة]Step 4:Use the techniques demonstrated in steps 1 and 2 to draw the edges of the
lightbulb in new layers. Set their opacity to 10% so that the focus remains
the coils
[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذه الصورة]Step 5:Now we’re going to add some colour to the interior of the lightbulb. Click on
the gradient tool, then edit the gradient so that it goes from a strong colour (
e.g. bright green) to 0% opacity. Then in a new layer create a radial gradient
near the top of the image. Then, draw another radial gradiant using a different
colour (e.g. bright blue to 0% opacity). Finally add a layer mask to this layer
and paint out all parts of this layer that fill beyond the extremities of the
lightbulb. Finally set this layer to 25% opacity.
[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذه الصورة]Step 6:Create a new layer and repeat step 5 again with 3 radial gradients, using a
mid green at the top and 2 orange/red gradients at the bottom. Next add a layer
mask, set your foreground and background colour to white and black respectively
and then use the render clouds filter to simulate a smoke effect. Go to
image> adjustments> brightness & contrast and up the
contrast of the layer mask by 100%. Finally set this layer style to color
dodge.
[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذه الصورة]Step 7:Next we’re going to add a bokeh effect. Bokeh is a term used to describe
light sources out of focus, think blurry circles. An example of what bokeh is
can be found
[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذا الرابط]. Hopefully
you’ve retained the brush settings from the particles in Step 3. All you need
to do now is change them slightly, so set the brush size now to 75 and set
hardness to 100%. Create a new layer, set the brush colour to a mid/light
orange and then proceed to draw over your image. These circles still look a bit
too defined, so then use a gaussian blur filter with a radius of around 5%.
Finally set the opacity of this layer to around 9%.
[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذه الصورة]Step 8:The final touches involve creating a new layer and using a standard brush to
paint over the coils with a dark purple colour, then setting this layer to color
dodge, and this enhances the glow effect of the coils. I also added some text
along the path of the edge of the lightbulb.
[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذه الصورة]And that’s pretty much it. I hope you enjoyed this tutorial
and found it useful.
Final
Image[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذا الرابط] (the psd file here is at 1024×768 resolution to save on bandwidth)
