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Create Dynamic Lighting Effect Using Custom Brushes in Photoshop CS5

Click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Outer Glow.

Create Dynamic Lighting Effect Using Custom Brushes in Photoshop CS5

Add Satin

Create Dynamic Lighting Effect Using Custom Brushes in Photoshop CS5

We’ve got the next result:

Create Dynamic Lighting Effect Using Custom Brushes in Photoshop CS5

Choose the Pen Tool (P), set the drawing mode on Shape Layers in Options bar and draw the next shape of #B5DC5B color as shown.

Create Dynamic Lighting Effect Using Custom Brushes in Photoshop CS5

Set Fill to 63% for this layer and change the Blending mode to Screen.

Create Dynamic Lighting Effect Using Custom Brushes in Photoshop CS5

Use also the previous tools to represent one more shape of the same color. Set Fill to 43% for this layer and change the Blending mode to Screen.

Create Dynamic Lighting Effect Using Custom Brushes in Photoshop CS5

Using the same tools (Pen Tool (P)) we have to represent the third shape of the color #76E4FF.

Create Dynamic Lighting Effect Using Custom Brushes in Photoshop CS5

Set Fill to 36% for this layer and change the Blending mode to Linear Dodge.

Create Dynamic Lighting Effect Using Custom Brushes in Photoshop CS5

Insert the mask on each of the layers containing the shapes by choosing Add layer mask on the bottom part of the Layers panel and choose the Soft Round brush of black color.

Create Dynamic Lighting Effect Using Custom Brushes in Photoshop CS5

Use this brush to paint in the mask to clean the edges of the shapes.

Create Dynamic Lighting Effect Using Custom Brushes in Photoshop CS5

Combine in a group all the shapes layers (press CTRL button to select the necessary layers and hold on the left mouse’s button while dragging the selected layers on Create a new group icon from bottom part of the Layers panel).

Make a copy of the got group and use the Free Transform (Ctrl+T) command to change the copies’ sizes, placing them as on the next picture.

Create Dynamic Lighting Effect Using Custom Brushes in Photoshop CS5

Now we have to represent more shapes, applying the already described method above.

Create Dynamic Lighting Effect Using Custom Brushes in Photoshop CS5

Click Create new fill or adjustment layer from bottom part of the Layers panel and click to Curves to adjust the curve shape as shown to make a little color corrections.

Create Dynamic Lighting Effect Using Custom Brushes in Photoshop CS5

We’ve got the next result:

Create Dynamic Lighting Effect Using Custom Brushes in Photoshop CS5

Create a new layer and select the Paint Bucket Tool (G) to fill the new layer with black color.

Create Dynamic Lighting Effect Using Custom Brushes in Photoshop CS5

Insert the mask on the layer by choosing Add layer mask on the bottom part of the Layers panel and choose the Soft Round brush of black color.

Create Dynamic Lighting Effect Using Custom Brushes in Photoshop CS5

Use this brush to paint in the mask to clean up the central part of the canvas, leaving shadowy only the edges.

Create Dynamic Lighting Effect Using Custom Brushes in Photoshop CS5

Combine in a group all the layers (press CTRL button to select the necessary layers and hold on the left mouse’s button while dragging the selected layers on Create a new group icon from bottom part of the Layers panel).

Make a copy of the got group. Rasterize te group’s copy (press CTRL+E to Merge Down). Apply on the rasterized layer the next filter Filter > Blur > Gaussian blur.

Create Dynamic Lighting Effect Using Custom Brushes in Photoshop CS5

We’ve got the next result:

Create Dynamic Lighting Effect Using Custom Brushes in Photoshop CS5

Set Fill to 29% for this layer click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Linear Dodge.

Create Dynamic Lighting Effect Using Custom Brushes in Photoshop CS5

Put together all the layers (including the rasterized layer of the group’s copy and the main group, rasterizing it also preliminary). Apply on the rasterized layer the next filter Filter > Sharpen > Unsharp mask:

Create Dynamic Lighting Effect Using Custom Brushes in Photoshop CS5

We’ve got the next result:

Create Dynamic Lighting Effect Using Custom Brushes in Photoshop CS5

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