Photoshop makes an elegant color smoke beam

The beam is made of wins and patience when making it. Not only the beam of high light from the dark light slowly portrayed, you can first pave the main color, and then use the pen and other selection tools to accurately add highlights. If there are more beams, it needs to be portrayed.

Final effect

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1, the effect of the beam although it looks more complex, in fact, are composed of some small beams. First to make the main part of the beam. The approximate effect is the following figure.

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2, a new 1024 * 768 pixel canvas, background filled with red or dark blue, the following figure.

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3. Create a new group, create a new layer in the group, use pen to check out the outline of the main beam, and then fill the same color as the background, as shown below.

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