Magic Hat Light Effect

[equinox10]

Difficulty: Experienced/Advanced

Step 1

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



Step 2

Add a really cool Icon of a magic hat from the Crystal Clear Collection by Everaldo



Step 3

Add some text and apply the Distort/Wave filter. Create two stripes of text.



Step 4

Rotate and place the text.



Step 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.



Step 6

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



Step 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 magicaly created



Step 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.



Step 9

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



Step 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 Apple (Cmd) key on Mac OS X or CTRL on Windows. Apply the COLOR DODGE blending options on it.



Step 11

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

Code:

http://creativebits.org/photoshop/magic_hat_light_effect_in_photoshop

This tutorial is not advisable for beginners. I've read some comments from the original website and it says that it's missing some important parts. However, if you're up to the challenge then go ahead and try it out.

Here's my result:

[aichin]

yung image ng hat di ko talaga makita..

mind posting it here as gif or png or jpg?

thanks po

[equinox10]

di ko din pala nakuha ung image ng hat. kasi nasa istock photo yun ng adobe. may bayad.

kaya ginawa ko eh pinirata ko ung hat dun sa image.

[d_palapuz]

ganda niyan, faye..!
makagawa nga ng layout sa friendster na parang ganyan..!
naluluma na friendster ko eh..
haha!

[equinox10]

hihi. infairness medyo nahirapan ako gawin yan.

[aichin]

for the benefit of others,




pasensya na medyo rough ang edges. that's the best na maproduce ko eh

[d_palapuz]

san mo ba nakita yung image nung hat, faye..?
try ko kunin, tapos kung rough edges, e-edit ko na lang yung outside niya saka ko post..

[equinox10]

sensya na. wala na kasi ung link kung saan pwede makuha ung image nung hat eh.

search na lang kau sa istockphoto.com for good images of magic hats.

sorry talaga.

thanks maruko for the extracted picture of the hat.

[d_palapuz]

ahh...
eto may nahanap ako sa google images..
na-chambahan ko lang..
LoL!
may mga puti nga lang, tanggalin niyo na lang..
LoL!

[aichin]

you're welcome faye.


uhm,


gawin mo sanang transparent yung likod,

pero pwede na rin yan. hehehe..

perspective, tapos konting retoke.

it should look like the one faye used.