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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Design a Vista Styled Wallpaper

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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

Iam the creator and editor of Design Shard, I created this blog to post my inspirations, work and free resources that I hope others find interesting too you can also follow me on twitter @designshard. See all posts by:

130 Comments (Leave a Comment)

  1. No efficient words for your works for your web site, tanks for your information.
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  2. thanks for sharing all these great tutorials. Very useful information.
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  3. Tim

    This is awesome. Some great inspiration lighting effects.

    Thanks.

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  4. awesome, really expressing .
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  5. just started using photoshop and i want to learn this kind of effects. i like the mac background
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  6. 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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  7. Excellent photoshop tips & tricks.
    Thanks Max

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  8. thanks all great collections

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

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  10. I just saw your web-site on Yahoo its a fantastic web site you’ve carried out an awesome job I will surely come back Thanks!

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

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  12. I really like the dust and spray effect.. Thanks for sharing it with us Max.
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  13. 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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  14. great tutorial..thanks for sharing
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  15. I love lighting effect! And i will practice my skills with some of these tuts! Thanks
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  16. Those are awesome definitely going to have to try to incorporate those somewhere!

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  17. Now these are some usefull turtorials right here. Will take a look and try to learn some of them!
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  18. fantastic tutorial, thanks for the list
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  19. 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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  20. GUPIII

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

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  21. Wow, thanks, well explained!

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  22. Big thanks for your collection

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