Photoshop gives black and white pictures a perfect transmission beam

There are many ways to make transmission beams, and filters are more common. This article introduces a pure hand-made method. General process: First set the light source position, with the curve, such as lighting. Then select the high light area, pull into the beam effect, with the mask control area. Later, the beam to the bottom of light can be added.

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Final effect

1, by dragging the picture to the bottom of the layers panel to create a new layer icon to copy the background layer layer. Name it "base light."

Select this layer in the Layers panel and press CTRL + M (CMD + m) to apply the curve. Adjust to a very strong curve, so that the contrast of the clouds to the maximum, so that a small area of which completely white. I focus on the third small area on the top left, where the light will penetrate through the clouds.

2, now apply to the Layer 2 pixel Gaussian blur. (Filters > Blur > Gaussian blur)

3, temporarily close the underlying Ray layer, select the background layer. Select the Polygon Lasso tool (L) to set the feather value in the tool's properties bar at the top of the screen to 50.

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