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Retrohelix — Photoshop: Quick sun tutorial
Published: 2005-10-19 12:00:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 15407; 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
it.
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I've got Photoshop for about two weeks now and I'm looking for all kinds of tutorials to understand this program.
Thanks again = ) It was really helpfull and it looked really great ^-^
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Best part about being lazy, IT LOOKS GOOD 70% OF THE TIME. XD
On the anyhoo, this will save me a lot of time. Great job!
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this is really great and all, but can you please do one for oc?
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not to sound ingnorant, but, what is "oc"?
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oh, not ignorant at all, actually, my fault, I should know these people are artists in their spare time, but anyhow, it's open canvas. it's free I think if you go to the website but you can get a better version if you talk to eshiza, I think? Yes, not ignorant at all , 
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oh i see, i haven't used open canvas since i changed computers, i'm glad it kinda works, i'll install it again and see if i can replicate the effect, thanks for the head up
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no problem, thanks for the tutorial!
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THAT'S SO COOL!! I'm still getting used to photoshop and i have no idea how to use 70% of the stuff on it yet (laugh) I only just learned how to use the lasso tool yesterday for my pic (blush) hehe so thank you for the tutorial it kicks ass! (especially compared to my attempts at sunlight).
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I'm glad it works, what version of PS are you using?
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umm CS2 lol it's so fun, i always used to use paint but photoshop had much more features i'm like a child in a huge sweetey store XD
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oops i meant version 9.0 hehe i'm such a ditz sometimes XP
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Thanks for making this it really helped it kicks butt!!
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You are so welcome XD
It works so well!!
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Such a simple tutorial, with an amazing outcome
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YOU ARE SOO COOL MON!!!!!~~
THAT ISH AN AWESOME TUTORIAL!!!!
THANK YOU SOOO MUUCCHH!!!~~
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Thanks, I hope it helps
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IT DID!!!~~~XDD
this ish my end result ~~> [link]
KYUU~~
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I've been known to be loved by many
xD I hope it helps
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Wow, thank you!
I needed an "easy tutorial for beginners". Not that I'm a beginner, but I don't pick things up as easy as this! This was very helpful! ^_^
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Wow, this is exactly what I needed-Thanks for taking the time to make it!
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no problem, i hope it helps
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thanks for showing me this its helpful, but i have a question ,if you have like an actually picture like with alot of layers, should you do THIS first then draw the picture or do it last and would you put this on top of the other layers? I'm assuming you would but im not sure thanks
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it depends on whether you want the entire picture to have the light from this efect, otherwise just put it in between layers, probably just trying to match the sky
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awsome. this helped me out alot. i am also practicing with backgrounds.
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thanks, i'm glad it helps
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x3 thank you im practicing on backgrounds and this helped me so much!
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Easy-to-follow tutorial, but the results are pretty nice. :]
Thanks for putting this up.
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Does this work for multi-colored suns, too, or just yellow/white ones?
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yeah, you just have to choose a color with the sliders, as for multicolor suns you can just duplicate the original layer several times, change the color of each one, then erase a piece of each layer with a soft brush 
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So like, how would I make a sun that was, say, purple, but let off the white glow like a white sun? (light, not glow xDDD)
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umm, for that it would be easier to just create a new layer over the one with your white light and, using a soft brush, color the original circle of your sun, it will kinda look like an eclipse though o.O, another way would be to duplicate the original light layer, then using this technique just replace the colors to the ones you want, in this case purple and white, reorder the layers so the purple one stays on top, and then using soft brush color with black whatever you dont want from the purple layer, if you instead use the eraser tool you'll have a problem because "screen" will need the black background to make it invisible, if you erase the black you'll have white strikes or something like that.
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Other, not multi XD But multi would be cool.
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Nice effects in just simple steps
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no problem, as i said ive seen people do really cool stuff in ps but still make red or white suns using lense flare O_o
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I Havn't had the time to do it yet, homework is beating me down ^_^
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