16 Great Photoshop Light Effect Tutorials

I’ve selected various Photoshop tutorials that I’m liking at the moment for light effects, some have quite cool techniques on how to achieve the end result that can be applied to a million different designs (try and experiment with them), check them out below.

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Abstract Light Rays

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Do you have any favourite tutorials that you have seen for light effects?

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Author of this post: Max Stanworth

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  1. awesome, really expressing .
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  2. just started using photoshop and i want to learn this kind of effects. i like the mac background
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  3. Fantastic resource, Ive been using Photoshop for years but still haven’t mastered the lighting affects. But you’ve explained the various methods perfectly. I’m bookmarking this page as we speak .

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  4. Excellent photoshop tips & tricks.
    Thanks Max

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  5. thanks all great collections

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  6. Oh man these are great. Gonna bookmark this. Thanks a lot for sharing the knowledge!

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  8. what was the floral brush you use?? where did you download it.. thanks…

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  9. I really like the dust and spray effect.. Thanks for sharing it with us Max.
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  10. There are some really great tutorials there. And the best is it’s easy with a great result.
    Very nice post. Thanks for putting this together.

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  11. great tutorial..thanks for sharing
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  12. I love lighting effect! And i will practice my skills with some of these tuts! Thanks
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  13. Those are awesome definitely going to have to try to incorporate those somewhere!

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  14. Now these are some usefull turtorials right here. Will take a look and try to learn some of them!
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  15. fantastic tutorial, thanks for the list
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  16. this post is pretty neat! thanks for this tutorial, i just started using photoshop and i want to learn this kind of effects. i like the mac background

    two thumbs up

    stay cool dude.

    :)

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  17. GUPIII

    coooooooooooooooooooooooooool!!!!! i’m gettin’ crazy with this!! awsome!!! wow wow, you’re a geniuus!!!! thankss!

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  18. Wow, thanks, well explained!

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  19. Big thanks for your collection

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  20. TGG

    this post is pretty neat! thanks for this tutorial, i just started using photoshop and i want to learn this kind of effects. i like the mac background

    two thumbs up

    stay cool dude.

    :)

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  21. Excellent! It is crazy how easy some of these are when looking at the amazing result you’ll make.
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