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How To Make Light Rays Through Clouds In Photoshop

April 8, 2016 By Eric Reagan

In this new video from Phlearn, Aaron Nace walks us through how to create light rays through clouds inside Photoshop.

He does this buy using the radial blur filter as a smart filter, along with some simple strokes from the brush tool. Pretty cool results. Check it out above.

Filed Under: Learn, Photoshop Tagged With: how to, Learn, light rays, Phlearn, Photoshop, tutorial

 

Atmosphere Aerosol Gives You Instant Haze for Making Light Rays

November 11, 2015 By Eric Reagan

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What makes a great backlight even better? How about some fog or haze? But what if there is no fog or haze at your location?

Fog and haze machines are awesome for creating rays of light in your images but they are not very portable. And that’s part of the motive behind Knoxville-based photographers Joe and Kathleen Atkins’ desire to put haze in a can. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Lighting Tagged With: Atmosphere Aerosol, haze, light rays, Lighting

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