How do I make a meteor effect?

Preview the finished product:

Step-by-step instructions:

1, first set background color for the sky of Dark Blue (r:32,g:34,b:99), the foreground color is a meteor golden (r:243,g:245,b:113).

2, click the Menu "File/new ..." Create a new image document with background selection background color.

3, in the "Layers" Panel stall "Background" layer to the bottom of the button, copy the background layer, you can see the Panel on a layer of "Background Cpoy" layer, and this layer for the current work layer.

4, click menu "Filter/noise/add noise ..." Add noise, set "amount:30" in open dialog box, "Distribution:gaussian", select "Monochromatic", click "OK" button. Get the following effect.

5, click the Menu "Image/adjust/threshold ..." field value command, in the Open dialog box, set "Thredshold level" to "95", which is in the image of all pixels than the value of the field is converted to white, All pixels that are darker than the field value are converted to black. Click the OK button. Get the following figure effect.

6, in the "Layers" Panel "Background Copy" on the right button, in the pop-up menu select "Layer Options ...", in the pop-up dialog box set "Mode" for "screen", click the "OK" button.

7, at this time the star effect has been completed, as shown.

8, now we have to do meteor effect. Click on the Pen tool in the toolbox to create a path with only two nodes in the image, note that you should click on the following node first.

9, click the Pen tool does not put, in the pop-up menu select, in the image of the tow two nodes, pull out the handle, pull the handle to make the path into a parabolic shape, as shown.

10. Double-click the Brush tool in the toolbox to activate the Paintbrush options panel and set "Fade" in the panel with a value of "100".

11, in the "Brush" panel to select the smallest fuzzy circle (if your panel does not show up, then click Window/show Brush), as shown.

12, in the "Layers" Panel of the label to activate the "Paths" Panel, click the following two times, to the path stroke, if the effect is not obvious, you can click a few more times.

13, double-click the Dodge tool, in the activation of the "Dodge Options" panel, set "Mode" as "highlights."

14, in the "Brush" panel to select the label 35 fuzzy Circle, in the image of the next node click several times, so that the path of the next node into a shiny light group. Click the hidden path in any area of the Paths panel. Did you see it? A meteor has been done.

15, and then a few meteor, merging all the layers, you can get a preview of the effect.