[Medium Advanced guide] Ray of Light

[Spurven]

To start off, we need an image that has some gap or spaces where lights normally pass through, such as a window, clouds, or hallway. In my image to the left, I will create a ray that will pass through the hole in the cliffs.



First off, we need to duplicate the original layer, one of the ways to do this is right click the layer in the layers pallete and select "Duplicate Layer"

Then:

Now go to Filter->Blur->Radial Blur
Set amount to: 100, Method: Zoom, and Quality: Best

Then move your cursor over to the "Blur Center", then click and drag its center point to the upper left corner.

Note: Where you drag this will depend on your image and depend on where you want the source of light to come from.



Now set the layer's blending mode to "Lighten" or "Screen" and change the opacity to around "60%"

Then use the eraser tool with the soft brush (size 150px soft brush) and erase out part of the layer where obviously light is not passing through.

That's it!

[Nilrac]

Nice tut... ill could a sweet sig with this, tobad i hate animated

[Spurven]

Keep in mind that you dont have to animate it

[Puff]

Yeah would look alot better not animated well done, maybe reduce the opacity abit, its a tad too strong.

- Puff

[EliMob441]

Can you please put link of source?

[Spurven]

Yeah would look alot better not animated well done, maybe reduce the opacity abit, its a tad too strong.

- Puff

Thanks for the comment

@ Elimob, a friend sent the Tut to me by msn, i don't know if he has ripped it, if he has, i will offcourse post the source.

[Puff]

I have seen ALOT of light ray tut's so he may of made it himself (wording pic wise) but it may of spurred from somewhere else.

- Puff