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Abstract Glowing Background

Create a new layer and apply here a brush to paint the ornament’s branches. Choose the color #F0A7D3 (Opacity 10%)

Create an abstract glowing background in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Use the same brush on a new layer (Create new layer) to represent the spots and paint the ornament with the color #A8D196

Create an abstract glowing background in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Create an abstract glowing background in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Next we’ll download a set of ready to use brushes for Adobe Photoshop named: fmask, Floral_vector_2_by_madsatsuki.

Create a new layer and apply here a brush out of the set fmask of white color.

Create an abstract glowing background in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Create an abstract glowing background in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Set the Fill to 65% for this layer and change Blend mode to Overlay.

Create an abstract glowing background in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Create a new layer and use a brush out of the same fmask set to represent several butterflies of white color.

Create an abstract glowing background in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Create an abstract glowing background in Adobe Photoshop CS4
On the next new layer we’ll apply the brushes from Floral_vector_2_by_madsatsuki set of white color.

Create an abstract glowing background in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Create an abstract glowing background in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Set for this layer Blend mode to Overlay and go to Layer Style > Inner Glow by clicking on this layer in Layers panel:

Create an abstract glowing background in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Create an abstract glowing background in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Create another new layer, use here a brush to represent several spots of white color and smudge the spots with Smudge Tool (R). Then apply the brush from the smaller diameter to the bigger one on the ornament’s ends (indicated below) to represent the effect of luminescence of white color (Opacity 10%).

Create an abstract glowing background in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Create an abstract glowing background in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Create an abstract glowing background in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Set the Blend mode to Soft Light for this layer

Create an abstract glowing background in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Make a copy of the layer containing the Floral_vector_2_by_madsatsuki brushes and choose Free Transform option to turn over the copy, placing it, like on the picture below:

Create an abstract glowing background in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Create a new layer again and select for it a brush of white color to represent many dots of different diameters:

Create an abstract glowing background in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Create an abstract glowing background in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Click on the same layer on the bottom part of the layers’ panel on Add a Mask selection and choose a brush of black color (Opacity 20%) to clean out a little the white dots.

Create an abstract glowing background in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Create an abstract glowing background in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Click on the bottom part of the layers’ panel on Create new fill or adjustment layer>Curves to add some color correction.

Create an abstract glowing background in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Create an abstract glowing background in Adobe Photoshop CS4
The final result!

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