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By Sean Hodge April 3rd, 2008 Tut ori als 119 Comments Publis hing Polic y Adobe Photoshop Tutorials – Rainbows, Glows and Light Effects URL: http ://www.smashingmaga zine.com/200 8/04/03/ad obe-phot oshop-tu torials-rainbows-g lows- and-light-effects/ Lighting effects in Adobe Photoshop are used to add flare and polish to images. They communicate feelings of creativity, technology, magic, and fantasy. Creating beams, glows, motion trails, rainbows, or an assortment of other lighting effects, give your images ambiance and de pth. Now it’s time for a sparkling dose of related Ph otoshop learning material. This article provides a resource of Adobe Photoshop Light Effects tutorials. These tu torials offer an assor tment of tech niques for making your work creatively glow. Please consider them as an e xtension of our ultimate Adobe Photoshop series: Adobe Photoshop Tutorials – Best Of (http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/01/10/adobe-photoshop- tutorials-best-of/) features some of the best Adobe Photoshop tutorials out there, Adobe Photoshop Video Tutorials – Best Of (http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/03/28/adobe- photoshop-video-tutorials-best-of/) showcases 80 excellent Adobe Photoshop video tutorials which you can use as a starting point to improve your skills or observe h ow professionals do their job. Photoshop Light Effects Tutorials Lines Tutorial (http://www.giackop.com/?p=70) A super simple tutorial that makes rainbow colored lines. It shows you h ow to give them an appe arance of brightness and depth. (http://www.giackop.com/?p=70) Expressive lighting effects (http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials/2d__and__photoshop /expressive_lighting_effects) This tutorial combines both vector and raster based tec hniques to ach ieve a glowing floral design. The glows are applied in Photoshop. Adobe Ph otoshop T ut orial s – Rainbows, Glows a nd L igh t Eff ects - Smash ... htt p:// www.smash ingm agaz ine.com/2008/04/ 03/adobe-photosh op-tutorial... 1 of 24 9/11/2010 2:07 PM

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By Sean Hodge April 3rd, 2008 Tutorials 119 Comments Publishing Policy 

Adobe Photoshop Tutorials – Rainbows, Glows and

Light EffectsURL: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/04/03/adobe-photoshop-tutorials-rainbows-glows-

and-light-effects/ 

Lighting effects in Adobe Photoshop are used to add flare and polish to images. They communicate feelings

of creativity, technology, magic, and fantasy. Creating beams, glows, motion trails, rainbows, or an assortment of 

other lighting effects, give your images ambiance and depth.

Now it’s time for a sparkling dose of related Photoshop learning material. This article provides a resource of Adobe

Photoshop Light Effects tutorials. These tutorials offer an assortment of techniques for making your work 

creatively glow.

Please consider them as an extension of our ultimate Adobe Photoshop series:

Adobe Photoshop Tutorials – Best Of (http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/01/10/adobe-photoshop-

tutorials-best-of/) features some of the best Adobe Photoshop tutorials out there,

Adobe Photoshop Video Tutorials – Best Of (http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/03/28/adobe-

photoshop-video-tutorials-best-of/) showcases 80 excellent Adobe Photoshop video tutorials which you can

use as a starting point to improve your skills or observe how professionals do their job.

Photoshop Light Effects Tutorials

Lines Tutorial (http://www.giackop.com/?p=70)

A super simple tutorial that makes rainbow colored lines. It shows you how to give them an appearance of 

brightness and depth.

(http://www.giackop.com/?p=70)

Expressive lighting effects (http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials/2d__and__photoshop

/expressive_lighting_effects)

This tutorial combines both vector and raster based techniques to achieve a glowing floral design. The glows

are applied in Photoshop.

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Vector Polishing Techniques (http://www.webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/vector-polishing-techniques/)

This tutorial covers numerous ways to transform your vector illustrations into masterpieces by using

Photoshop lighting techniques, glows, and filters.

(http://www.webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/vector-polishing-

techniques/)

How to Make the “Flare” Effect As Seen On WPCustomization.com

In this tutorial, the Lens Flare filter is used on the background. Then the lighting is created with brushes and

different blending modes.

Sparkling Hot Girl in Photoshop (http://abduzeedo.com/sparkling-hot-girl-photoshop)

Utilize an assortment of techniques to achieve a sparkling design. Masks, blurs, brushes, layers styles and

other effects are used in this tutorial.

(http://abduzeedo.com/sparkling-hot-girl-photoshop)

Design by Function, Team23

GbR 

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Amazing Photoshop light effect in 10 Steps (http://abduzeedo.com/amazing-photoshop-light-effect-10-steps)

“If you know a bit of Layer Styles and the Brush engine in Photoshop you will be able to create amazing

effects. It will depend exclusively on your imagination and playing with the tool. Sometimes just changing

some settings and you get a totally different effect.” This tutorial applies lighting effects to a coffee cup icon.

(http://abduzeedo.com/amazing-photoshop-light-effect-10-steps)

Creating A Fantastic Fantasy Night Sky In Photoshop (http://psdtuts.com/designing-tutorials/creating-

a-fantastic-fantasy-night-sky-in-photoshop/)

Create cartoon style clouds with rainbows, stars, and glowing effects. Based on a Nik Ainley 

(http://www.shinybinary.com/) design.

(http://psdtuts.com/designing-tutorials/creating-a-fantastic-

fantasy-night-sky-in-photoshop/)

Neon lights with Photoshop (http://www.darjanpanic.com/tutorials/neon-lights-with-photoshop/)

Tutorial on how to make glowing lights effects out of vector shapes and brushes.

(http://www.darjanpanic.com/tutorials/neon-lights-

with-photoshop/)

Electrifying Energy Beams (http://luxa.org/tutorial_electrifying_energy_beams.php)

In this tutorial you start with the pen tool by drawing a line. Then you transform that line into an energy beam

with layer effects. This makes it glow white and purple around a microphone.

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Add Another Dimension (http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials/premium_content 

/2d__and__photoshop/add_another_dimension)

Use glows and blending modes to “add another dimension” to your Photoshop artwork 

(http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials/premium_content 

/2d__and__photoshop/add_another_dimension)

Magic lighting effect in Photoshop (http://abduzeedo.com/magic-lighting-effect-photoshop)

Learn to magically make text wave and glow out of a magician’s hat.

(http://abduzeedo.com/magic-lighting-effect-photoshop)

Extreme sports branding (http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials/2d__and__photoshop

/extreme_sports_branding,_part_one)

This tutorial first covers creating a logo then it gets into the main snowboard illustration. Vector shapes are

applied with layer effects and brushes to make the illustration stand out. This is part one in a series.

(http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials/2d__and__photoshop

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How to Create Intense Light Streaks in Photoshop (http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/tutorials/how-to-

create-intense-light-streaks-in-photoshop)

This tutorial shows you how to create light streaks that appear to flow around an object.

(http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/tutorials/how-to-create-

intense-light-streaks-in-photoshop)

Chroma Wallpapers (http://www.webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/chroma-wallpapers/)

This tutorial explains how to create an energetic design with lines. Utilize blurs, warps, and other effects. Addglowing and vibrating colors to give this image a dynamic feeling.

(http://www.webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/chroma-wallpapers/)

Advanced Glow Effects (http://psdtuts.com/tutorials-effects/advanced-glow-effects/)

This tutorial teaches how to create glow effects using layer styles, the pen tool, and some color blending

effects.

(http://psdtuts.com/tutorials-effects/advanced-glow-effects/)

Lighting Effects – Beam Wave (http://www.bluesfear.com/submittuts/ps/6/index.php)

Learn to transform a one pixel lines into a glowing beam. Then add radial balls of light to emulate a pulse

explosion.

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Add A Sparkle Trail To A Photo (http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/sparkle/)

Learn how to add a sparkling trail of stars to your photos using brushes, layer styles, and effects.

(http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/sparkle/)

Creating light motion trails & glowing sparks (http://veerle.duoh.com/blog/comments

/creating_light_motion_trails_glowing_spark/)

This tutorial covers creating light motion trails by using the pen tool with layer styles. It also covers creating

sparkling stars in Illustrator and then importing them into the Photoshop design.

(http://veerle.duoh.com/blog/comments

/creating_light_motion_trails_glowing_spark/)

Blue Glow Layout (http://www.flash-game-design.com/tutorials/blueGlow-photoshop-tutorial.html)

This tutorial reviews the process for creating a simple layout in Photoshop, while revealing techniques for

creating an abstract glowing centerpiece design.

(http://www.flash-game-design.com/tutorials/blueGlow-

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Fantasy Art Photoshop tutorial (http://loreleiwebdesign.com/2008/07/05/fantasy-art-photopshop-tutorial-

plasma-in-the-lake/)

Learn to create a fantasy image with glowing halos of lights and stars. Notice how you can apply glow directly 

to a cropped image. The tutorial creates the halos with the Elliptical Marquee tool. It applies a stroke and then

a glow to the selection, on its own layer.

(http://www.loreleiweb.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9518)

Photoshop: Light Beam (http://photoncubetutorials.blogspot.com/2006/04/photoshop-light-beam.html)This tutorial reviews the basic process of creating a light beam in Photoshop; however, it does refer to other

tutorials for some effects. The techniques in this tutorial involve using different brushes to paint the light, and

then they are smeared with the Smudge Tool. There are a few filters used as well.

(http://photoncubetutorials.blogspot.com/2006/04/photoshop-

light-beam.html)

Even fairies have to rest – glow and lightning tutorial (http://bwebi.com/fairy-glow-lightning.html)

First, the photograph is treated to make it a little darker so that the points of light in the design will stand out.

Both a linear wrapping beam and points of radiating light are covered in this tutorial.

(http://bwebi.com/fairy-glow-lightning.html)

Beautiful lighting FX effect in Photoshop (http://pixelmana.com/?p=26)

This tutorial will show you how to make a beautiful lighting effect with the scatter brush. This tutorial covers

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the basics.

(http://pixelmana.com/?p=26)

High-Tech Swirling Aurora (http://freeonlineclasses.net/index.php/Photoshop-Classes/Photoshop-

CS3-Photo-Effects-for-Photographers/High-Tech-Swirling-Aurora.html)

This tutorial covers how to apply the Wind Filter to a waving light beam to create an aurora effect.

(http://freeonlineclasses.net/index.php/Photoshop-Classes

/Photoshop-CS3-Photo-Effects-for-Photographers/High-Tech-Swirling-Aurora.html)

Slow shutter text effect – Photoshop (http://www.shotgunmag.co.uk/?p=33)

Layers of blurred elements are used in this tutorial. This blurring technique is worked into glowing linear text

and circle shapes.

(http://www.shotgunmag.co.uk/?p=33)

Seriously Cool Photoshop Explosion Effect (http://psdtuts.com/tutorials-effects/seriously-cool-photoshop-explosion-effect/)

Use layer masks and light effects to creatively break apart an image. Points of bright lights, swirly brushes, and

warped lines help bring this design together.

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(http://psdtuts.com/tutorials-effects/seriously-cool-photoshop-

explosion-effect/)

Which techniques can be applied?

At the compositional level, these effects are often applied through shapes. So, you might start with the pen tool

by drawing a curvy line. Or, grab a brush and draw some scattered stars. Or, open up Illustrator first to compose

design elements that you then pull back into Photoshop. The tutorial Expressive lighting effects

(http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials/2d__and__photoshop/expressive_lighting_effects) demonstrates

how to use interesting design shapes first and then apply glowing effects to them.

Once you know how you’d like to use shapes, you can apply effects to them. Layer styles and Blending Modes

are common effects used to create this look. With Layer Styles, you might apply Glow. Or, with Blending Modes,

you might set the layer to Lighten, Overlay, or Color Dodge – get the element you’re working with to sparkle and

shine.

(http://www.webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/chroma-

wallpapers/)

In the tutorial Chroma Wallpapers (http://www.webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/chroma-wallpapers/), lines are

bent with the Warp Transform tool before being given a glow treatment.

There are more techniques often used; such as different types of blurs and gradients. You could play with

Photoshop’s built in lighting effects, like Lens Flare, as well. Or get creative. Mix in rainbows. Paint glowing

bursts of light. Manipulate the lines and shapes your working with.

In the tutorial Chroma Wallpapers (http://www.webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/chroma-wallpapers/) lines are

bent with the Warp Transform tool before being given a glow treatment. This puts a new spin on the use of glowing

light techniques.

Where can I get some inspiration?

Consider raising it to the next level, after you’ve mastered the basics of lighting and glow techniques. To raise the

quality of your glowing work you’ll need inspiration and imagination.

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Homepage (http://www.aiburn.com) Twitter Page (http://twitter.com/SeanHodge)

Look at artists, such as Chuck Anderson (http://www.nopattern.com/nopattern/), that have mastered these

techniques. Try to figure out what they have done – beyond the basics.

(http://www.nopattern.com/nopattern/)

Chuck Anderson (http://www.nopattern.com/nopattern/)‘s work impresses with the beauty of its lightning

effects.

Also, look at photographic effects; for example, look at how light appears to blur and travel in long exposure

photography. See the Flickr Group Light Stream (http://www.flickr.com/groups/lightstream____/pool/)for

samples of this kind of photography.

Keep your eyes and mind open. You’ll start to see these effects in the real world. Or look to fantasy art; the

sparkling feel of these effects can be used to supersede reality, magically transforming your designs.

Sean Hodge

Sean Hodge is the creative mind behind AiBURN, a weblog about design, creativity,

inspiration and graphics.

Tags: effects, photoshop, Tutorials

1JoomlaNinjaApril 3rd, 2008  6:11 am

Smashing mag strikes again!

Love this one :)

119 Comments

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2giackopApril 3rd, 2008  6:19 am

uooooooooooo my tutorial in smashing mag?!?!?!? thanx!!! !!!

3MikeApril 3rd, 2008  6:38 am

the best photoshop tutorial collection i’ve seen.

thanks SM! *thumbs up*

4YUIApril 3rd, 2008  6:44 am

another bunch of photoshop tutorials, thanks

5DavidApril 3rd, 2008  6:54 am

Once again, an absolutely amazing collection!

6Altair April 3rd, 2008  6:56 am

Great article… i love light effect…

7ArrianeApril 3rd, 2008  7:24 am

This is superb! Thanks for the collection of tutorials!

8AriaApril 3rd, 2008  7:34 am

Wow! Great! thx so much!!

9GautchApril 3rd, 2008  8:07 am

So are lighting effects and glows the new bevel or drop shadow?

At what point is it an old out dated style?

10anwar April 3rd, 2008  8:23 am

that,s amazing whit photoshop!!

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11HaobamApril 3rd, 2008  8:47 am

PSDTuts.com is one cool Photoshop tutorial site

12Vlad GerasimovApril 3rd, 2008  8:55 am

Hey! I’ve read Psdtuts tutorial and I thought I could try to make it better! So I wrote my own

Rainbows tutorial, please check it out:

http://www.vladstudio.com/photoshoptutorials/?36

13aliApril 3rd, 2008  9:14 am

pretty much all of them were from psdtuts

14Shobhit

April 3rd, 2008  9:15 am

Stunning TUTORIALS!!!!!

Great to see them all in ONE…

Smashing u guys are the best

15fabio SassoApril 3rd, 2008  10:02 am

Thanks a lot for listing some of the tuts I wrote ;)…

16DavidApril 3rd, 2008  2:45 pm

Sweet, now this is what I want to see more of!

Light makes such beautiful motion within pictures!

I’ll be back for sure now ;)

17The FachiaApril 3rd, 2008  3:28 pm

I like the flare effect for WordPress logo.

18Raymond LopezJuly 5th, 2010  10:21 am

did you find the tutorial?

I can’t find it anywhere

19Raymond LopezJuly 5th, 2010  1:22 pm

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I found a very similar one for all the people that are looking for it and can’t find it>

great-design.blogspot.com/2007/10/creating-lens-flare-with-wordpress-logo.html

20flkoApril 3rd, 2008  4:20 pm

GREAT TUTTOS, i like all

21imsraaiaApril 3rd, 2008  4:51 pm

Excellent collection…

22ChrisApril 3rd, 2008  6:16 pm

@”Anonymous”

I’m not seeing any degrading pictures here, but then again, that’s a bit subjective. Care to clue me

in?

23KimApril 3rd, 2008  7:26 pm

@”Anonymous”

I’m not remotely offended by anything in the article but like Chris said, something that is offensive

to one may not be to another. Sadly, the only think that offends me on this page is your 

comment…

24Oscar April 3rd, 2008  7:49 pm

Espectaculares!!!.

25christopher jackApril 3rd, 2008  9:50 pm

wow, coool. that is what i want to study : )

thanks.

26RohilApril 3rd, 2008  10:16 pm

I am sorry but this is getting very repetitive. We have seen most of the tutorials before. Anyone

who reads Smashing magazine surely reads PSDtuts and other good graphic sites as well. and

thus. These tutorials have already been publicised enough.

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27PauloApril 3rd, 2008  10:19 pm

Great tutorials guys, as always!

28Frank FelixApril 3rd, 2008  10:55 pm

Die beste und schönste PS Tutorial-Sammlung, die ich je gesehen habe! Danke!

The best and nicest PS tutorial-collection i’ve ever seen! Thanks! :P

29Psycho2481April 3rd, 2008  11:50 pm

damn, you did it again xD

best collection, awesome things,…

SM rockz

30gr8pixelApril 3rd, 2008  11:56 pm

hold on.. hold on… is this for real?? wait imma scroll back and see… LOL

awesome tutorials! thanks guys!

cheers SM \m/

31One Winged AngelApril 4th, 2008  1:28 am

I really love this tutorials collection. They sure help me a lot. Thanks SmashMag!

32JasonApril 4th, 2008  5:19 am

Although these are great tutorials… this style has seen its day. Its over used these days.

33BepponeApril 4th, 2008  6:14 am

Veeery nice… thanks….. :)

34designlabelApril 4th, 2008  6:22 am

Thanks for this list though i knew most of em’ already but its good to have a list. :-)

DesignLabel

35SkekuApril 4th, 2008  6:54 am

Sorry, but I find this post very repetitive. Ok, nice effects but in most cases, same things about

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glows and lighting effects.

36VTFootballGradApril 4th, 2008  7:23 am

This is why Photoshop rocks.

37kidslovemusicApril 4th, 2008  8:20 am

Absolutely great. Thank you!

38boboApril 4th, 2008  4:45 pm

starting to double up from other ps posts. maybe less is more in this case so you can post more

later 

39Ex April 4th, 2008  7:10 pm

Nice tutorials guys, as always!

40MikkelApril 4th, 2008  11:47 pm

I absolutely agree, its like its so over used..

41Jason Reed

April 5th, 2008  5:56 am

Wonderful resource list. I can’t wait to try some of the new ones that I haven’t seen before.

42ReginaldApril 5th, 2008  9:42 am

This post is literally jam packed with exceptional hard to find yet practical and useful information.

Thanks for investing the time and effort this post may have required.

43LoreleiApril 6th, 2008  2:33 am

Hi,

Thank you so much for adding my tutorial (fantasy art, by loreleiweb.com) to your list, it’s a great

honour for me!

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44alexApril 6th, 2008  9:32 am

the greatest ever..thank you very much for your precious information.

45pocketfullofrosesApril 6th, 2008  1:08 pm

wow that’s stunning… thanks a lot for all these awesome tutorials!!!

46Avasilcai DanielApril 6th, 2008  3:47 pm

For every lightning effect you’ll need a dark background, that’s the first rule,

as you see in your examples are almost all with a dark background.

47John NelsonApril 8th, 2008  1:52 am

Wow, pretty usefull.

48mellowdesignApril 8th, 2008  12:05 pm

Lighting is one of my favourite areas of Photoshop – a great post!

49iuliuxApril 13th, 2008  1:49 am

hey, what took you so long? :)

I’ve been searching for this effect for some time

50bojjaApril 14th, 2008  11:08 pm

Best stuff, excellent !!!

Thank You :-)

51JB BurayagApril 27th, 2008  8:54 pm

its awesome!! ! very addictive….

52PrashantApril 29th, 2008  12:12 pm

Awesome tuts. Lovely works and great learning for newbies like me.

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53VIDAApril 29th, 2008  10:19 pm

U are the best ..it really helped me a lot..thanks !

54rodrigoMay 6th, 2008  3:13 pm

Hola podrian colocar esta misma pagina pero en español

para ver los controles

espero respuestas

gracias

55Web DesignMay 15th, 2008  9:41 pm

Great Tutorials!

56eugeMay 19th, 2008  6:45 pm

amazing..i really like it..:)

57Kumar D'signer May 19th, 2008  9:27 pm

Awsomeeeeeeeeeee tutorials. Smashing Guys trully doing amazing Job.

58Holly May 30th, 2008  12:30 am

im so glad i came accross this website youve helped me out loads :D thankyouuuu

59BisriJune 4th, 2008  1:24 am

Woww .. :) great list SM. Todays trend : Glow and Light Effects … Rockkkkss …

I’ve created a social link share about tutorial links for designer. Visit Tutzz.com. I hope it will be

useful.

60sanzaJune 5th, 2008  12:12 am

Sweeeeeeeet! thanks

61MalshanJune 8th, 2008  1:54 am

Nice very nice thanks for adding this stuffs I very much appriciate your work thanks again

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62musique101June 18th, 2008  5:09 pm

All of them are beautiful to look at But some of the tutorials are hard to follow and too long. I know

that everyone likes to show off but I think it will be muh better if someone can post the basic steps

to get those effects instead of “do this do that”.

63Denny July 15th, 2008  6:41 pm

so coooooooooooool!!!!!!!!!!

64perrycokeJuly 17th, 2008  10:45 am

very good stuff here

65Sebel

July 18th, 2008  3:53 am

I wonder how this pictures would be print. If I change the Color-Profile to CMYK the colors are

natural not that bright as in RGB…

66OnealJuly 22nd, 2008  8:56 am

HOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA nice really nice

67

QyounkJuly 30th, 2008  12:39 pm

you’re the best

68R3XAugust 15th, 2008  2:04 am

I’m truly grateful for all your effort into helping us noobs.

69meAugust 30th, 2008  3:17 pm

utterly speechless

70GemmaSeptember 2nd, 2008  2:15 am

Yet another fantastic compilation. This one is especially inspiring. So well done, Smashing

Magazine – never fail ing to impress!

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71StormVonkSeptember 5th, 2008  8:47 am

dammmmm awesome!!! Really Well Done Once Agian!

72Zach D.September 9th, 2008  1:14 pm

Dude, I love you! I have been looking for stuff like this everywhere. Very nice collection, you rock!!!

73RobertSeptember 18th, 2008  10:54 pm

So Far this is one of the best collection of tutorials I ever got on the internet. Keep up the great

job.

74MareikeNovember 3rd, 2008  6:04 am

BEAUTYFUL EFFECTS i love it! How can i get them or how do i have to work with photoshop,

that i can handle it alone? Awesome…

Greetz Mareike from vinergy

75AlexeiNovember 11th, 2008  10:36 pm

WOW this is quite impresive for me i can create more nice looking sig and banner using this tutor 

i hope you will release moooore efect that will booms my skilll up and UP hahahaha btw thanks

76MimiNovember 24th, 2008  9:30 pm

Will definitely try my hand at a few of these. Thanks! :)

77party,amDecember 2nd, 2008  1:31 am

The most of tutorial ..

it very very Good …

i love thai page ..

78LisaDecember 2nd, 2008  4:07 am

this is superb . but how can u download it?

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79?007January 7th, 2009 11:38 am

wooooooooooooooooooooow realy i searshed for tut like this and i finaly found lol

80yomiJanuary 10th, 2009 4:08 am

thanks for every thing

81iLseJanuary 13th, 2009 6:25 pm

zttaa muuY wenOO gRaaCiaaaz! :D

82AsheshFebruary 7th, 2009 4:44 am

Smashing magazine is absolutely Superb!

Best of luck to the editorial team.

83Hussain AswanFebruary 24th, 2009 11:57 am

dame seein these stuff here made me horny :D

84Siew ChingMarch 16th, 2009 10:26 pm

It’s amazing,thx for sharing

>@<

85bressonMarch 24th, 2009 9:55 am

stop referring and linking to computerarts.com – their tutorials seem to be written in stupor 

induced hazes because they seldom ever work and are filled with errors. otherwise nice tutorial

but would have been better had you actually tested some of these tuts for quality as some are just

horrific

86Kyle007

March 26th, 2009 6:56 pm

I love it…..Thanks for everything!……I love it

87AbadiApril 1st, 2009 4:30 am

Amazing, really nice !!

Thank you alot !

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88AhmadApril 14th, 2009 8:38 pm

Hiiiii

I like your technics but some time problem with images inwhich these not show the view….

otherwise this is best….

89wgs_ind April 20th, 2009 1:24 am

thank’s very much for tutorial..

90GaryOMay 9th, 2009 3:55 am

There’s no link to the ‘“Flare” Effect As Seen On WPCustomization.com’ Tutorial. Can anyone

help?

91KatMay 10th, 2009 11:14 pm

AMAZING!!! Thanks a lot

92torradoJune 2nd, 2009 6:17 am

yyesssssssssssss, i like it!!wwoowwwwwwwww

93

elaineJune 11th, 2009 5:42 pm

awesummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm i lurvee this fankkkk uuuuuuuuuuu

94nancyJuly 19th, 2009 6:38 pm

i can’t do that. it’s very beautifull.

95LintuSeptember 6th, 2009 6:18 pm

This is amazing! Can’t wait to try it!! XD Thankies!

96the andy leonOctober 7th, 2009 12:12 pm

whats photoshop?….

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97miemiiOctober 8th, 2009 3:37 pm

Awesome tutorials!!

Thanks a lot *bows*

98Ryla

October 9th, 2009 10:21 am

ONE WORD: beautiful *__*

99adodoOctober 14th, 2009 8:12 pm

great ! love it so… :D

100paulNovember 5th, 2009 12:54 pm

Fantastic collection, wil l save me a bunch of time.

Thanks for compiling!

101LuceNovember 22nd, 2009 5:02 pm

Awesomeness! A great thank you Sean! : )

P.S. from one comment to be the one hundredth!!

102

MwidayatNovember 25th, 2009 2:15 pm

THKS FOR THE TUTS

103sinyoDecember 17th, 2009 9:13 am

amazing,.

104SanthoshsivaDecember 21st, 2009 6:21 am

Thanks for uploading friends !

105LizaJanuary 5th, 2010  10:43 pm

Hi,

Thank you so much for featuring my “Plasma in The Lake” tutorial. I just have one concern, if I

may – I moved the forum to a blog platform, could you please change the link for the tut #20 from

http://www.loreleiweb.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9518

to

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impressive tutorials i learned something new from this tutorial and i bookmarked thanks freelance

web designer 

115Beyy.June 21st, 2010  11:27 pm

love your creativity . :)

rofl~

PLS POST . ANOTHER :”>

116TessJune 29th, 2010  5:22 am

Great roundup :) I love glow effects, you can do amazing things with those. They give that little

extra touch to some photos, it’s amazing. Thanks for sharing.

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yusdeiviAugust 12th, 2010  3:54 pm

km puedo hacer una imagen de esas con mi foto

118akashAugust 23rd, 2010  4:53 am

thanxxxxxxs

it was very helpful for me

119cheeneSeptember 6th, 2010  9:21 pm

nice tutorials . . hmmm is there any other effects that would suit to a poster making?

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