40 Photoshop Tutorials for Amazing Lighting Effects – Part Two

Published in Design, Photoshop Tutorials

One of the most popular posts of 2008 on this blog was 40 Photoshop Tutorials for Lighting and Abstract Effects. Since it has been close to a year since that collection was put together, a number of excellent tutorials for working with lighting effects have been published. With this post I’d like to present the second edition of tutorials.

Flying Girl in Photoshop

Flying girl in Photoshop

How to Digitally Illustrate a Camera with Light Streaks

Light Streaks

The O Series Tutorial

The O Series

Creating Energy Spheres in Photoshop

Create energy spheres

Transform Your Doodles

Transform Your Doodles

Create a Magical Rainbow Color Flame in Photoshop

Colo Flame

Make Photos Sparkle

Make photos sparkle

Iron Man View Interface Effect in Photoshop

Iron Man View Interface

Photoshop and Illustrator Grid and Glows (update: this tutorial is no longer online)

Grid and glows

Add Another Dimension

Add another dimension

Create Cool Neon Effects

Create cool neon effects

Glow and Lighting Tutorial

Glow and lighting

Color Effects with Alpha Channel

Color effects with alphs channel

Lighting Effects in Photoshop

Lighting effects

Swirls Tutorial

Swirls Tutorial

How to Creat Brilliant Light Streaks in Photoshop

Brilliant light streaks in Photoshop

A Set of Glowing Rings

glowing rings

Fantasy Light Effects in Photoshop

Fantasy light effects

How to Create Intense Light Streaks in Photoshop

Intense light streaks

Surprisingly Easy Rainbow Light Painting Effect

Easy rainbow light painting

Light Effects

Lighting effects

Beautiful Fluffy Clouds in Photoshop

Fluffy clouds

Creating a Nuclear Explosion Effect

Nuclear explosion effect

Crazy Lighting in Photoshop Tutorial

Crazy lighting in Photoshop

Dreamy Mystical Photo Effect

Dreamy mystical photo effect

Electrifying Energy Beams

Electrifying energy beams

Fantasy Art Photoshop Tutorial

Fantasy art

Create Simple Light Stripes

Create simple light stripes

Photoshop Light Beam

Light Beam

How to Create Light Beams with Photoshop

Light beams with Photoshop

Making Funny Disco Style Background

Disco style background

Light in the Forest Photo Effect

Light in the forest

Creepy Ghost in Photoshop and Cinema 4D

Creepy ghost in Photoshop

Create an Amazing Ad in Photoshop

Create an amazing ad in Photoshop

Storm Effect

Storm Effect

Surprise Behind the Curtain

Surprise behind the curtain

Light and Glow Effect in Photoshop

Light and glow effect

Starburst Photoshop Tutorial

Starburst

Abstract Image

Abstract Image

Light Effect on a Model

Light effect on a model

Northern Lights

Northern lights

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51 Responses

acidcloud January 27th, 2009

Holy wow! These are simply amazing! You’ve outdone yourself with another great post! Thank you!

Tom Ross January 27th, 2009

Good post, and many that I hadn’t seen before, but to be honest I was surprised to see not even one tutorial from PSDFAN. Keep up the great posts though!

Valiik January 27th, 2009

Very awesome post! Amazing tutorials. It’s crazy how many breathtaking tutorials abduzeedo puts out. Love their work. Thank you!

joyoge designers' bookmark January 27th, 2009

very nice all effects thanks..

moih60 January 27th, 2009

thanx for that amazing collection…u made gr8 work man

Danny Outlaw January 28th, 2009

These are all really cool. I must admit when I first saw these light streaks in designs I though they would just be another design fad.

They seem to be holding strong as a design element though.

It will be interesting to see where these go in the future.

Leah January 28th, 2009

wooooooow, this is a VERY good post. I like the sample images you have on here too. I was looking for a tutorial to teach me how to do this because I am making an album cover. I’m using a free version of photoshop which is an alternative (photoshop cost too much!)

Hannah January 28th, 2009

Im speechless… just the things i’ve been looking for.. thanks a million!

Web Design Wollongong January 29th, 2009

How do you continually find such great art work … amazing! Well done

Sally House January 30th, 2009

These are simply amazing. great work

Jag January 31st, 2009

Really amazing effects :)

Antti February 1st, 2009

Perhaps the best list of light effects I have seen. Thanks for including my tutorial!

Business Unleashed February 27th, 2009

These are truly beautiful graphics – some of the most wonderful I have ever seen. Well done!

Vasali February 27th, 2009

These dazzling effects :) Thanks

BAE March 12th, 2009

Fantastic :-) .

Dragster June 10th, 2009

wow this site is crazy tutorials are great..thanks 4 the help learnt allot.

nazcar July 21st, 2009

great collections of tutorials..

http://game4home.com September 22nd, 2009

nice effect

Joaquin October 24th, 2009

what”s the software name?

AKSHAY DUSANE October 26th, 2009

all useful tutorials

Santa Clara divorce lawyer October 29th, 2009

Awesome effect! Thanks for sharing such a great collection.

guri November 3rd, 2009

am thankful to u that u helped to this awesome effects

Orlando Web Design November 29th, 2009

Awesome collection of Tuts!

chip tuning January 2nd, 2010

Very nice tutorial, wondreful effects.Great job, thanks for the sharing!

Ralph Michael Garber February 2nd, 2010

I think this has limitless capabilities. Now I have to dive in.

PsdDude April 12th, 2010

Lighting Effect Tutorials look very Cool ! You have really nice tutorials in this list!

deepak April 24th, 2010

Super!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Colour”s, I am Glad

eddy July 11th, 2010

i want more this type of abstract lightning effects,,,,,,,please suggest me site ,,,,,,,,,,,I will be thankful to you.THANKS

imedialabs August 4th, 2010

Holy cow! Really amazing source for photoshop techniques…

D Ainsworth February 14th, 2011

Yay! It’s a whole list of Photoshop effects! I’ve been using Photoshop for 13 years now, but it’s my belief that no one can ever learn enough. Thank you so much for sharing this. I’ll be back for more!

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