Make a light texture!

[angelwatching]

Want to make your own light texture? Now you can just by using own icon base!

This
to this





Now you can make your own light texture in just a few simple steps. Every texture turns out different but you'll be
satisfied with your results.

I am starting off with this base of Sara Lumholdt



I am not going to mess with this but I'll make a new copy of this base [ctrl-c ; ctrl-v]

With the new copy > Duplicate > Effects > Distortion > Wind > setting: from left; strength: 100

Now blur > Motion blur > angle: 65 ; strength: 82 > merge layers

Now you have something like this



Now, with this texture I'll > Duplicate > set layer mode to burn at a 38% opacity > duplicate > set layer mode to dodge at 38% opacity and
duplicate that one more and then merge my layers together! I'm now done!



Now I want to this texture over the original image...so with the original image...

I sharpen > duplicate > adjust > hue and saturation > Hue/Saturation/Lightness > Hue: - 180 ; Saturation 0 ; Lightness: 0

Set the blend mode to softlight. Merge layers.

The first example is with the texture set on light and the second example is set on screen.

lighten mode
  screen mode

There you have it! Let me know if you have any questions or comments! I'd love to see what you come up with.

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