A FREE COLLECTION OF PHOTOSHOP TUTORIALS FOR YOU FROM VARIOUS DIGITAL ARTISTS

TUTORIAL 1: LIGHT SPHERE USING FILTER LIGHT RENDER

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1. Open a new window with WIDTH 300, HEIGHT 300, and black background. Go to Fil-ter > Render > Lens Flare and choose Brightness: 105% Lens Type: 105mm prime. Adjust the position of your flare with your mouse as shown below.

Click OK.

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2. By now Lens Flare filter should be applied. Now go to Filter > Distort > Polar Coordi-nates. Make sure you have chosen Polar to Rectangular. Click OK.

By now your image should look like this:

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3. Now go to Image > Rotate Canvas > Flip Canvas Vertical.

4. Go to Polar Coordinates again but this time choose Rectangular to Polar. As you see our Sphere can be seen already.

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5. Choose the Elliptical Marquee Tool (M) to create a round selection around the sphere as shown below.

Choose Select > Inverse ( Ctrl + Shift + I) and hit delete button on your keyboard to delete the selected sides around the sphere.

6. Now go to Image > Adjustment > Color Balance ( Ctrl + B) and play with the sliders until you get the desired color.