Thursday, May 27, 2010
Photoshop Workbench 229: Simulating the Hand-Held Sparkler Look
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If you’ve ever seen an image with streaks of light dancing around the subject, most likely it was captured at night using a long exposure while someone “painted” around the subject with sparklers. I’ve always wondered if there’s a way to reproduce this look in Photoshop. Much to my delight, I recently stumbled across a tutorial from the ever-masterful Corey Barker that illuminated my way. Here’s what I learned…
Thursday, May 27, 2010 at 8:16 pm
Great tutorial! I predict a lot of sparkler shots showing up on Flickr soon!
I could never figure out why I would want to make a layer style into its own layer when I saw the option in the menu. Now I know!
Monday, May 31, 2010 at 7:13 pm
Matt, interesting technique. I’ve wondered how to create the same effect, so thanks for the lesson.
Rick
Monday, May 31, 2010 at 7:14 pm
Mark / Matt – senior moment. Sorry.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010 at 9:54 am
Very nice tutorial Mark, You and Corey did a great work again.
Amicalement,
David