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Create Magical Light Over Christmas Tree in Photoshop
We will open a custom photograph of a Christmas tree and add a ray of light over it to make it look magical in this Photoshop tutorial.
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Open a random Christmas photo.
I have searched and found a Christmas tree on Google images.
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Select Rectangular Marquee Tool (M).
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And create selection around the tree as I did.
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Press D key to set black and white color.
Then click above on Filter, Render and select Clouds.
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Set layer's blending option to Screen.
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Click above on Filter, Blur and select Motion Blur...
In a new window set the same values like I did and press OK.
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Then click above on Edit and select Free Transform.
Hold Ctrl (Command on MacOS) key and drag upper corner together, like I did.
Confirm transformation by pressing Enter key.
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Click above on Layer, Layer Style and select Color Overlay.
Set the same values like I did and set yellowish color.
Click OK.
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Select Polygonal Lasso Tool.
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Now select the edges of just created light over the tree (see my pic).
Hold Shift key to create selections that are separated.
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Click above on Filter, Blur and select Gaussian Blur...
In a new window set the same values like I did and press OK.
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Click above on Select and choose Deselect.
Select Eraser Tool (E).
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Right click on document and set up the pretty much same values as I did.
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Remove the unwanted light on the document.
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Set layer's opacity around 60% (see my pic).
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