Magic Lightning

Magic Lightning

by : abduzeedo


Well what I want to show here is how to create a nice light and magic effect.

1. Create a radial gradient, in this case from a purple to a really dark purple

2. Here I added a really cool Icon of a magic hat



3. Add some text, I used the source code of a site to get the text and apply the Distort >Wave filter

Create two stripes of text

4. Rotate and place the text

5. Add some light using glow: Use different values for each line of text, the secret here is the blending option COLOR DODGE

Change the values of Spread, Size and Range

6. Group the 2 lines of texts and with one apply a mask to make the stripes disappear at their ends.

7. With the other group of text apply a gaussian blur, after that delete some parts to show the non-blury text.

This will add a movement feel to the text, like they are really being magically created.

8. Create a new layer below the text and with a regular big brush like 100px add a spot of light in white.

The layer must be below the text, otherwise the glow will not affect the white spot

9. Make some smoke again, I used the eraser, I could've used the liquify as well

10. Create a cloud: to do that make use a marquee with feather set to a value bigger than 20 and apply the render>clouds holding the command key(mac), ctrl key(win).

The same as the previous post, and the most important thing apply the color dodge blending options on it

11. Sparks: For the sparks create a brush, play with the shape dynamics, scattering, and other dynamics. After that, apply a Outer Glow and Inner Glow to create the magic effect.

End - The result is really simple but at the same time it looks beautiful.