Learn how to create a very beautiful cosmic light effect. Category: Filter Effects

Learn how to create a very beautiful cosmic light effect.

Step 1: Start off by making a 500 x 300px document and filling the background black, than head up to Filter -> Render -> Lens Flare, and use the settings below and place the flare like below.

Step 2: Now go back up to Filter -> Render -> Lens Flare, and make it look like below.

Step 3: Now go up to Filter -> Distort -> Wave, and use the settings below to get an effect like below.

Step 4: Now duplicate the layer, and with the new layer selected which should be on the top, go up to Edit -> Transform -> Flip Vertical, and put it's blending mode on "Linear Dodge" and merge the layers by going up to Layer -> Merge Down.

Step 5: Now duplicate your newly merged layer, and with the new layer selected, go up to Edit -> Transform -> Flip Horizontal. And put it's blending mode to "Screen" and merge it down as well by going up to Layer -> Merge Down.

Step 6: Now duplicate the layer again, go up to Filter -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur: amount 10, and put its blending mode on "Overlay" and merge it down once again. I think you probably have this down by now.

Step 7: Now once again duplicate the layer, go up to Filter -> Distort -> Wave, and use the settings below.

Step 8: Now go up to Filter -> Brush Strokes -> Angled Strokes, and use the settings below.

Step 9: Now go up to Image -> Adjustments -> Hue/Saturation and check the box "colorize" and get a purpleish color and hit OK. Now set the layers blending mode to "Linear Dodge", and merge the layers once again.

Step 10: Now duplicate the layer again and go up to Filter -> Blur -> Radial Blur, and use the settings below.

Step 11: Now go up to Filter -> Blur -> Guassian Blur: amout 10. Set the blending mode to "Lighten", and merge the layers, and you can call it good.

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