Adobe Photoshop – quick light rays effect tutorial

Ideas of rays effect is not mine I have also learned that rays effects from website talk-mania.com in 2008 also I am thankful to author, so today I thought to share this quick rays effects tutorial, this tutorial is very easy and its takes less time and steps to complete. so let’s start.

Open Photoshop and Create new

Create new document from file menu > new or press use shortcut key ctrl+n

create new document for rays of light effects

Select brush

Select brush tool from left side tools or Press B shortcut key for selecting brush tool, set Master Diameter 20 px and 0% Hardness, as I selected in following image.

select brush and brush size

Draw Lines

Draw the ugly lines in document with brush tool, it doesn’t matter if lines are different you have draw, The effect result will be different don’t worry about that.

drag lines in image

Apply Radial Blur Filter on lines

Go to Filter from Menu > Blur > Radial Blur as shown in following image

Radial Blur filter settings popup

Then a popup of Radial Blur appear on screen and select Amount: 100 and Blur Method: Zoom Quality: Good and click on OK. Apply same filter (Radial Blur) by using CLTR+F 4 times.

result after applying radial blur 4 times

Inverse the image by using CTRL+I check following result after inversed.

inversed by pressing CLTR+I

Apply Find Edges Filter

Go to Filter from Menu > Stylize > Find Edges as shown in following and

Stylize- Find Edges effect changes

Again inverse image by using CTRL+I

inverse-again

Apply Hue/Saturation

Select Hue/Saturation from Menu and use select Hue, Saturation, Lightness values as in following image.

Apply Hue-Saturation

Apply Radial Blur again.

Photoshop-quick-effect-final

Twirl Image just for fun.

Photoshop-quick-effect-twirl