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Step 13 - Light Blurs
Again at Lost & Taken, download several images of Light Blurs. I used this.
Step 14 - Bubbles
Next we'll want to give the piece a 'sparkly' effect. There're several ways to do this, you can go for lighting stock photographs which you can find on the internet quite easily, use C4D effect renders, etc. For now we'll be using stinky666's Bubbles. In case you're wondering where to get those, here's the link. If you have a slow internet connection, you can download the Bubbles first. The main guideline for this is to set the layer's blending mode to Screen or Linear Dodge. You can add as many as renders as you like until you like the result, however, for variety, we'll want to decrease the area taken from a single source, and increase the number of sources. It'll make the piece look more customized and less cut&paste-ish. So I started off with this (007):
Step 15 - Variety of Bubbles
Similar concept and technique, but now we'll be using this. (047)
Step 16
Next, Bubbles 049 from stinky666's Bubbles Pack.
Step 17
Bubbles 023.
Step 18
Bubbles 041. Don't mind the repetition, patience is virtue.
Step 19 - Last Bubbles!
Bubbles 001.
Step 20 - Lighting
I realized that 'streak of light' wasn't bright and dramatic enough. It's probably not going to be eye-catching if we leave it that way. So grab a white soft brush with 0% hardness and brush it like this, then set it to Hard Light 30%.
Step 21 - Light Textures
I wanted a more magical feeling to it, so the best thing to do would be adding light textures by Sanami276, because they reminded me of fairy dust. You can download the pack here if you don't have anything similar. I picked a blue one.
Step 22 - Another Light Texture
From the same pack, pick another one that has this orange color.
6 comments on “How to Create an Underwater Abstract Art in Photoshop”
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Some of these tutorials are extremely good, magazine like. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for the tutorial. It turned into my first photoshop project; took me a few hours and some frustration, especially at the beginning, but I feel I understand it much better now :) your directions were also very clear!
I really can't find the C4D craze from stinky666, can you maybe share the picture or a link to the picture?
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