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[So Duce]

Someone help me achive this effect,
http://imreallygood....date4/prime.jpg
http://imreallygood....date2/diddy.jpg

basicly the glow

[Andrei Doubrovski]

So Duce,
1. For the flares, try "Filter > Render > Lense Flare" and play with "Brightness" and "Lense Type" (I believe for the poster they used "35 mm Prime" )
2. For the glow, pull down "Layer > Layer Style > Outer Glow" and set the glowing color, opacity, size, etc.

[Dance]

Andrei, what on earth are you talking about?
1: there are no flares, if you are talking about the sparks that fly around or the sparkle in diddy kongs glasses, they are custom brushes all of them. The backglow behind the doorman is also brushed.
2nd: I dont think you know how outer glow works. you need a clear area around a cutout or object if you wish to put a outerglow around it. all that colored glow isnt mad by outer glow. The glow around the sparks is made byeither duplicateing the sparks layer, puting it ontop and put a abritrary gaussian blur on there and then settin the layer Blendmode to screen. Or more likly its a 100% brushjob. There is a chanse that they are made by outer glow but the guy who made these wouldnt use it due the inconsistancy of spark size. the only outer glow there is is the neon sign on the diddy kong picture.
Sorry for the mild flame but if you dont know guessing is often not a good idea as it could frustrate those who after the advice still cant get it right.

Now to make this kinds of pics and glow it realy helps if you have a tablet handy because this is a brush and maskjob of rank/pain.

Okay so you have your picture with backlighting. you create a new layer ontop of the image. When this is done you grab your brush and select the color of the glow, make it round and huge, 40% opacity and 0%hard. now start brushing outwards from the lightsource in the direction you want to have this colored glow. then pick another color and do it again. when you are done and have made it all around the image pick white and pull down the opacity to say 20%. Brush in the cender and mildly outwards untill you have a white core glow. at the point it wont look to much like a glow, more of a solid chunk of softcolored edges. Apply a large gaussian blur to it then make a layer mask and mask out the drak areas of the foreground character.
tweak by levels and or hue/saturation if nessesary.

ctrl click the color layer to select it and then prerss crtl-shift-i to invert it make a new layer on top of the stack and fill it with black. (unintentional rhyme) to get that vinitage affect. tweak if nessesary, dupplicate the layer and merge it if you want to have it blacker. make a duplicate of the orginal pic put it on top the glow but under the black layer and pull down the opacity untill you get a suitable result. make a layer on top ans slect a glow brush again but smaller this time and work up the glow on the hotspots around the edges. then go ahead and tweak and custom brush. but you can find that in a tutorial.

Example psd, pic from google image search dont use it for comercial purposes.

http://www.mediafire.com/?35mzxo52zzj

not spellcheaked or nothing coz im in a hurry. Kthxbye

[eatingcrayons]

What Dance said is pretty spot on but here is a tutorial to help out a bit more:

www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials/2d__and__photoshop/painting_with_light

Tutorila by No Pattern, he is the man when it comes to light effects.