PS Tutorial: Colorful light around the beauty effect

Photoshop Tutorial: Colorful light around the beauty effect.

Photoshop adds a gorgeous halo effect to beautiful photos.

Effect chart

The first step: open a photo of Maggie Q, as shown in Figure 01. You can choose their own material pictures, but pay attention to choose the character's clothing and background are darker photos, so we make the halo effect will be more obvious.

Figure 01

Step two: Look at the photo above, we found that the photo is a little "gray." So before we add a halo effect to a photo, we have to do a simple retouching of the photo. In the Layer palette, select the thumbnail of the background layer and click the right mouse button to select Copy Layer from the pop-up shortcut menu and get the background copy layer. Perform a filter-blur-Gaussian blur command on the background copy layer with a blur radius of 5 pixels. Then change the layer blending mode of "background copy" to "overlay", as shown in Figure 02. Compared with the original, the picture becomes more layered.

Figure 02

Step three: Select the Pen tool in the Toolbox and use path mode to draw the path shown in Figure 03 to select the character's skirt section. Constituencies don't have to be precise.

Figure 03

Step Fourth: Press the "Ctrl+enter" key to convert the path to a selection. Click on the "Create New Layer" button below the Layer palette to create a new layer named "Light". Confirm that the foreground color is black, the background color is white, and the filter-render-Cloud command is performed on the light layer, as shown in Figure 04.

Figure 04

Step Fifth: Perform the filter-art-plastic wrap command on the light layer, using the default settings for the parameters. Then change the blending mode of the light layer to "color Dodge", and then press the "Ctrl+d" key to cancel the selection, as shown in Figure 05.

Figure 05

Step Sixth: Select the Pen tool to draw the curve path as shown in Figure 06.

Figure 06

Seventh Step: Create a new layer, named "Light". Sets the foreground color to white. Select the brush tool with a brush diameter of 5 pixels and a hardness of 0%. Enter the path palette, click the right mouse button on the thumbnail of the path you just drew, select the stroke Path command in the pop-up shortcut menu, click "Simulate pressure" in the pop-up "Stroke path" dialog box, and tap "OK" button. The stroke effect is shown in Figure 07.

Figure 07

Eighth step: Select "Brush Tool" again, press "F5" key to pull out brush palette, check "scatter" option, its specific parameter setting is shown in Figure 08.

Figure 08

Create a new layer, named "Spot", follow the steps in step seventh, stroke the path again, and the effect as shown in Figure 09.

Figure 09

Nineth step: In the Layer palette double-click the "spot" layer thumbnail, bring up the Layer Style dialog box, tick the "outer glow" option, its specific parameter settings as shown in Figure 10.

Figure 10

The effect of adding a layer style is shown in Figure 11.

Figure 11

Step Tenth: Select the Eraser tool in the toolbox to erase some of the images in "light" and "spot" to form a light that surrounds the character, as shown in Figure 12.

Figure 12