Magic Lighting Effect in Photoshop

Since my last article on how to create smoke generated lots of traffic, I decided to write another one on some of the photoshop effects. Although I use Photoshop on a daily basis, I am by no means a photoshop expert.

Well what I want to show here is how to create a nice light and magic effect.

1. Create a radial gradient, in this case from a purple to a really dark purple

2. Here I added a really cool Icon of a magic hat from the Crystal Clear Collection by Everaldo



3. Add some text, I used the source code of a site to get the text and apply the Distort >Wave filter


Create two stripes of text

4. Rotate and place the text



5. Add some light using glow : Use different values for each line of text, the secret here is the blending option COLOR DODGE.Continue more...