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Retrohelix — Photoshop: Quick sun tutorial
Published: 2005-10-19 12:00:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 15389; Favourites: 353; Downloads: 1634
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I made this tutorial for people who are beginning to use photoshop, if you're a know-all ps savvy then this is not for you.I made this in Photoshop 7, I have checked and the process seems to be the same up to Photoshop CS4.
It appears it also works for GIMP (thanks to Excalibur-T005 for pointing that out), although the options seem to be a tad different, I'll check into that and possibly edit the tutorial later.
*****Please note that Photoshop Elements doesn't have a Color Balance box, so there are 2 things you can do:
- Adjust Hue/Saturation (Enhance > Adjust Color > Adjust Hue/Saturation)
- Color Variations (Enhance > Adjust Color > Color Variations)
I'm not sure Color Variations will be of any help but give it a try if you don't like the result from Hue/Saturation.
If you like this please
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Comments: 103
It may be quick but it worked wonders for a piece I'm finishing. Thanks for this
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I'm glad it worked for you, it's a really cheap way to make a sun, but it's alright when you don't want to deal with it.
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I agree. Sometimes the most simple solution works best.
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You're welcome, I hope it helps
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I used this for my first comic page! Although I might of messed it up a bit. *sweatdrop*
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Don't worry about it, I checked the comic page you mention and it looks like you might have gone a little overboard, but it's easy to fix, just make the flare smaller
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thanks a lot^^ with your tut i made wonderfull sky^^
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I'm glad it helps, it came out pretty good
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I'm glad it worked out for you ;D
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thankee 
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no problem, thanks for the comment
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xD thanks, i hope it helps
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It helped me alot! Check out how well it worked: [link]
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thanks this helped, but one problem i have photoshop elements not photoshop and i couldn't find the ajustment color thing
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there are 2 things you could try, one would be the hue/saturation box (Enhance > Adjust Color > Adjust Hue/Saturation), the second one would be the color variations box (Enhance > Adjust Color > Color Variations), though i'm not really sure the second one would be of any use so try with hue/saturation first
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thanks
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OMG thank you so much! i love this tutorial and is very usefull
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Absolutely brilliant. You may, by the way, want to note that this also works perfectly for GIMP.
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It does? 
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Yeah, this tutorial meshes quite well with GIMP. Some of the things are a little different (for example, the Lens Flare is not under 'Filter->Render', but instead is under 'Filters->Light Effects(I think)'
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I see, I'll give it a try then, thanks for letting me know
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No problem - this tutorial helped me a lot.
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lol thanks, if you have any questions let me know, i might have to rewrite this thing again at some point mmmm
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ah, okay, thankoooo..
dunno why tho, it seems fine to me *but, than again, im the kinda non-caring person...*
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It should, what version of Photoshop are you using? I know it works in both 7 and CS2, in any case try looking for this "color balance", it should come up by going Image > Adjustments > Color Balance, that works up to CS4 as far as I know.
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Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0 (long name, haha)
okay, i'll try that, but when i didnt use that, the sune was fine, but not great, lol
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Photoshop Elements is a stripped down version of Photoshop, so you might not find many of the settings and filters, I did a quick google search and found nothing but questions without answers, however you could end up with a similar effect by using Hue/Saturation instead of Color Balance, do Enhance > Adjust Color > Adjust Hue/Saturation and adjust the colors of that layer, I've never used that version so I can't really tell you any more than that, you might have to play around with those settings until you end up with a yellow flare instead of red/white.
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I'm using PS CS2, but I can't find lense flare? Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Great tutorial, by the way!
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Filter->Render->Lens Flare
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Well... I'm a preety much of a know-all about Photoshop, but I can't draw sun for buttons so this was really helpful. xD
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