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Add Glints of Light to Your Images

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Scanned images and those taken with digital cameras, need a lot of color

correction before they can be put to any meaningful use such as publishing in a

magazine or on a Web page. Giving lighting effects to an image reduces the

efforts for color adjustment. Moreover, the variation in color does not remain

noticeable, especially in case of dark images. So, photographers or image

editors use special lighting effects to suppress problematic areas in images.

Glinting Starburst Effect in Photoshop is one such lighting effect that lets you

hide odd color variations in a single image.

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For creating the Starburst Effect, you need to use only a few tools such as

Line, Marquee, and one or two Blur filters. This effect is best suited for

evening party pictures, birthday party images, candle light dinner images and

images with a dark background.

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This image is a little dark,

especially the background portion. To make it bright and attractive, we

shall put glints of light on the black, round boxes on the wall
Create a new document of

approximately 200-300 pixels. Fill the background with any dark color, say

black. This would ensure that glints of light are clearly visible
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Select and hold the rectangle tool for a while. Now, in the

pop-up window, select the Line tool. In the Option bar on top, set the line

weight as two pixels
Put one cm wide guidelines on both sides and draw a one cm

wide, white line inside them. Select >Filter >Blur >Motion Blur and set the

distance angle between 60—90 pixels
Duplicate the layer with the

line and rotate this layer. Select Edit >Transform>Rotate option to

transform the selected area to a square. Rotate the square by 90 degrees
Select and merge both layers.

Now, duplicate this merged layer. Select the new layer and go to Edit

>Transform >Rotate to rotate it by 45 degrees; make it smaller by 50 percent
To add a Lens Flare filter,

create a new layer and select the elliptical Marquee tool from the tool box.

Select the Starburst Effect and then select >Edit >Stroke
Now go to >Filter >Blur

>Gaussian Blur to soften the lens effect. Here we used one pixel radius. You

can increase the radius to 3 pixels depending on the size of your final

image
Select all layers except the

background and merge them.Select the layer one, and copy-paste the layer to

the final image. Adjust the Starburst Effect as per background
Copy the layer one and paste it

to each box in the background. Select background and make shadow/highlight

and brightness/contrast adjustments. Your image is now ready
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