Photoshop Zone

One of the things I’ve seen around quite a bit lately is a transparent rainbow gradient effect on a dark background. It seems to me that flashy transparent gradients are in these days. They make me think about magic. Today I’ll show you how you can create a magical rainbow color flame. OK, maybe I’m using too many words in a row here, but it’s the best I can do to describe this. I should tell you upfront that for this tutorial basic knowledge of Photoshop is needed. Draw smoky lines First we start with the creation of the smoky lines by using the Pen tool . Use a white fill for each shape layer and an Opacity of 40% . Set the Layer mode of the layer to Overlay and the Fill to 0% . Double click on the right on one of the layers to open the Layer Styles . Add a white Drop Shadow of 100% Opacity and set the Blend Mode to Overlay . Distance and Spread is set to 0 and Size to 11 . Next, make sure to uncheck Layer Knocks Out Shadow . Now ch...

Final Image Preview Firstly create a new document ( Ctrl+N ) in Adobe Photoshop with the size 1900px by 1200px ( RGB color mode) at a resolution of 72 pixels/inch . Take the Gradient Tool (G) and open the Gradient Editor from Options Bar : Choose the Foreground to Transparent gradient. Apply the gradient from the top to down. Apply the next filter: Filter>Distort>Wave and choose the next settings: It’s the result you should get: Click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Inner Shadow . Add Gradient Overlay : Click in the color bar to open the Gradient Editor and set the color stops as shown. Click OK to close the Gradient Editor dialog box. We’ve got the next effect: Create a new layer , fill it with black color applying the Paint Bucket Tool (G) and drag it under layer with gradient in Layer panel . Back to layer with gradient and make a copy of this layer ( Ctrl+J ) and apply Edit>Tran...