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Posted on 12/11/08 1:24:24 PM |
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chris berry
Overhead Overlord Posts: 724 Reply  |
bright flare
Hi everyone Does anyone know how to create a flare of light, the sort of thing you see in a horror logo, where it bursts out in beams from behind a closed door. In this case, it will be bursting out from behind a logo. Cheers Chris |
Posted on 12/11/08 5:28:31 PM |
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Luis
Six-String Synthesist Posts: 236 Reply  |
Re: bright flare
Chris, is this what you want to create? if so try this. 
For this logo, I used a solid white logo. 1. Create logo and center in middle of document. Duplicate layer and turn that layer off. 2 On the original layer go to, Filter > Distort > Polor Coordinates. Select Polar to Rectangular 3. Press Ctrl T to bring up the Free Transform. Right click and select rotate 90CW. 4. Filter > Stylize > Wind. For the Method, select Wind. For the Direction, select From the right and click OK. Press Ctrl F to apply the filter 2 more times. 5. Press Ctrl T to bring up the Free Transform. Right click and select rotate 90CCW. 6. Go to, Filter > Distort > Polor Coordinates. Select Rectangular to Polar Center logo in the document and use the free Transform to rotate to make it straight. 7. Filter > Blur > Radial Blur. For the amount: 100. Blur Method: Zoom Press Ctrl F to apply the Radial Blur again. If you want, you can apply a layer style to this using the Gradient Overlay or Color Overlay Now turn the duplicate copy layer on and add any layer styles to it if you want. I hope this helps. Luis |
Posted on 12/11/08 6:04:16 PM |
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chris berry
Overhead Overlord Posts: 724 Reply |
Re: bright flare
Thanks, Genius! Exactly what I was looking for. Will post result. Thanks Luis, really appreciated. Chris |
Posted on 12/11/08 6:48:20 PM |
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maiden
Golden Gif Gagster Posts: 471 Reply  |
Re: bright flare
Great Tutorial Luis |
Posted on 12/11/08 8:17:35 PM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 6935 Reply  |
Re: bright flare
Luis, you're clearly some kind of genius. Have you written a book yet? |
Posted on 12/11/08 8:39:00 PM |
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Luis
Six-String Synthesist Posts: 236 Reply |
Re: bright flare
Me a genius? I don't know about that. I'm still learning things in photoshop. Actually, I learned this technique a while back in a book. So when I saw this topic, I just shared what I learned. What I like about this effect, the rays fit well with the logo. I haven't written a book, but I can make a book in photoshop from your tutorial Steve. Luis |
Posted on 12/11/08 8:52:21 PM |
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maiden
Golden Gif Gagster Posts: 471 Reply |
Re: bright flare
Luis I agree with Steve, you underrate your own genius. The Corkboard tutorial the jigsaw puzzle this you have a book in the making. I'd buy it. |
Posted on 15/11/08 06:55:16 AM |
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Nick Curtain
Model Master Posts: 1768 Reply  |
Re: bright flare
Great tutorial Luis - get writing!! Nick |
Posted on 16/02/09 5:33:58 PM |
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Swade
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Re: bright flare
Nice one Luis, dunno where you read it, but i learnt that method a while ago when i first started Photoshop. It was in a tutorial on how to make an eclipse (yes steve i LOVE eclipses as you can tell now) out of nothing. I never though of applying it to a logo though, it really fits nicely !! Well done ! Really ingenius ! Swade Edit : actually i just googled "tutorial photoshop eclipse" and you find that technique on the first tutorial you come accross ! |