The effect of the picture seems to be more light, in fact, by a few simple beam copy deformation. And the production of small light beam is very simple, can be directly with a pen to check out the curve of the smooth curved path, with stroke path or color fill can be a very good beam.
Final effect
1, create a new 800 * 650 pixel canvas, background filled with black. To make a simple composite beam, the effect needs to be completed as shown below.
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2. Create a new group, create a new layer in the group, select the Pen tool, and check out the arc closed path as shown in the following figure.
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3, press CTRL + ENTER, the path into a selection, feather 1 pixels after the fill light blue: #E6EAF5, after the determination of the opacity to: 80%, the effect of the following figure.
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4, create a new layer, with a pen to check out the selection shown in the following figure, feather 1 pixels and fill the same as the light blue.
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5, cancel the selection with a pen to check out the selection shown in the following figure, feather 3 pixels after the layer to add a mask, the following figure.
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6. Create a new layer and add a little more light to the left middle position of the beam.
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7, create a new layer, with a pen to check out the selection shown in the following figure, fill the light blue, opacity to: 60%, the following figure.
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8, the selection after the cancellation, with a pen to check out the selection shown in the following figure, feather 1 pixels after adding a layer mask.
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9, create a new layer, with a pen to check out the selection shown in the following figure, fill the light blue, and then press CTRL + D to cancel the selection.
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10, with a pen to check out the selection shown in the following figure, feather 1 pixels after adding a layer mask.
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11, with a pen to check out the selection shown below, fill the light blue, opacity to: 30%, and then press CTRL + D to cancel the selection.
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12, then use the pen to check out the selection shown in the following figure, feather 1 pixels and fill the layer mask.
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13, the beam part of the basic completion. Create a new layer, hide the background layer, and press CTRL + ALT + Shift + E-stamped layer.
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