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Angel Blur Effect

This is a pretty cool effect I found. This gives any picture an angel halo effect.

• The picture i aquired can be found here.
• Things needed: Gaussian blur, Lens Blur
• 1. Take the
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• picture and load it on photoshop. The absolute first thing you want to do is make sure you dupilcate the layer. You can do that simply by right cliking the layer and clicking "Duplicate Layer".
• 2.Now take the duplicated layer and go to "Filter"->"Render"->"Lens Flare" and place the light source right around the left corner overhead the building. Also try have something close to these levels.
• 3.Go to the layers box and click on the duplicated layer and go to the "Blending selection" on the layers box and select "Overlay". And you'll already notice a slight halo effect.
• 4. Go back to your original layer without the lens flare and duplicate that one again. this time your going to have to go to "Filter"->"Blur"->"Lens Blur" and try to match these settings. 5. Then take that layer and set the blending mode to "Screen"
• 6.Finally of you want to add more, Go to the gradient tool and set the gradient to this .Now all you have to do is move the "opacity" of the gradient to 68% and make the blending mode "OverLay" From there click and drag the mouse diagonally 2 times across the screen, and there you go, your very own halo effect. This technique can be used on anything. I hope you like it! For any questions or comments please comment on this post. ~PhotoShop Buddha~

Credits: Chris
Kasmadi for the pic.

posted by ccase2k @ 11:31 PM