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.

You might also enjoy:

Design a Vista Styled Wallpaper

vista-style

Windows Vista Aurora Effect

vista-aurora

Design a Vibrant Blackberry Inspired Ad

vibrant-blackberry-ad

NoPattern “Jumper” Effect

nopattern-jumper-effect

Mysterious Lighting Effect

mysterious-lighting

How to Create Brilliant Light Streaks

light-streaks

Creating a Mac-Type Background

mac-type-bg

Luminescent Lines

luminescent-lines

Create a Glowing Light Painting Effect

glowing-light

Abstract Dust And Spray Effect

dust-and-spray

Make a dreamy abstract background

dreamy-abstract

Digital Bokeh effect

bokeh-effect

Abstract Lines Background

abstract-lines

Abstract Light Rays

abstract-light-rays

Drawing an Abstract Lightbulb

abstract-lightbulb

How to create 3D abstract circles

3d-abstract-circles

Comments

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

Author of this post: Max Stanworth

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130 Comments (Leave a Comment)

  1. Vim

    Great post, really like the Luminescent Lines tutorial, will definitely use this in future design projects.
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  2. these are the tutorials that i’ve been looking for, thanks for the list
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  3. Thanks for the list ,they are amazing !!!!!!!
    Cheers :)
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  4. Oh my god,the photo is so powful.

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  5. b

    cool stuff long time no see

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  6. b

    hey max @ Max stanworth been a while like a month sioce your last post how so ?

    be good to know what your up to ? maybe post more frequently cheers b

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    • yeah, been busy lately, trying to get a new job sorted out, and working on a new design that ill probs post about soon, thanks for the comment.

  7. really nice collection :) thanks

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  8. Its a massive work. I found something for which i was in found of……………….Great collection.

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  9. Excellent list i laked so much :D

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  10. Excellent list… and also the way to present it is really great, I see can beleive you put alot of work on that list.
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  11. These are great. I really like the mac style background that looks really cool. Thank you for sharing.
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  12. Great effects!
    Thanks U
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  13. Great roundup. Thinking of combing a few ideas out of those to make a wallpaper.

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  14. Great post Max, all fantastic tutorials. I especially like the ‘Mysterious Lighting Effect’.

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  15. Great roundup! Thanks :)
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  16. Nice effects, thanks heaps!!

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  17. Awesome tutorials, thanks for sharing them all

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  18. ah, very good tutorial collection – I like your articles, not too short, but exactly in time – quality post!
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  19. Great work, as usual!
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  20. Thanks for the helpful tips
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  21. Nice collection. I really like what Tutorial9 brings to the table.
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  22. g8 collection.. Thx :)

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  23. The technique “How to Create Brilliant Light Streaks” from designreviver I absolutely adore and have adapted it into quite a few designs I’ve made. I’ll have to check quite a few of these other ones out, thanks for posting!
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  24. Wan Kimm

    Beautiful! Especially love the light painting effect. Totally bookmarking this for future reference.

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