There are many ways to make color beams, and here is a quick way to do this. First the outline of the beam to hook up, fill the gradient, reduce the opacity of the layer, and then use the selection to copy the edge of the beam of the high light area can get good results.
Final effect
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1, first to decompose the structure of the beam, roughly divided into the main beam, such as Figure 1, and some thin light beam as shown in Fig. 2.
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2, the need to complete the first beam as shown below.
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3, create a new 1024 * 768 pixel document, select the Gradient tool, color settings such as Figure 4, and then from the lower left to the upper right corner pull out the radial gradient shown in Figure 5 as the background.
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