Glow Lines Portrait Photoshop Compositing tutorial

[@KellySWard]

Just rewatched this - I would have always made a solid color layer then selected pixels and masked in the color, but you did it without making a solid color layer at all! Choose the pixels, and press option + delete and it fills it in with the color! I have never seen anyone do that before! So awesome what you put in these videos - thank you again

[@colinweir5807]

Your attention to detail is impeccable. 🐯

[@cobusprinsloo]

I always learn something new from your great tutorials - thank you!

[@WanderFeetChronicles]

Thanks Rikard, as always.

[@KellySWard]

Keeping the vertical line in curves at the center of the stack - brilliant! I finally get it, thank you SO MUCH for that tip!!

[@michaelpitt3640]

OK I'm fairly handy with Photoshop but this made me feel like a third-grader dropped into an upper-level college Physics class! More here than I can absorb. Glad others got something out of it and you obviously have a lot of compositing talent.

[@nuclylearn]

Oh no! I promise I have more beginner tutorials too.

[@Yurok22]

whew!! took me two days but loving every minute of it thank you so much wonderful tutorial will put my finish on fb

[@Stellifant]

Fantastic video. Thanks Rikard

[@creatormedia8416]

very cool

[@yitzhakamedi1689]

love it.

[@theworldtravellerm]

Nice tutorial. Thank you.

[@mustlearnmore4884]

LOVED this tutorial! Thank you so much!

[@rgarlinyc]

Very cool - great idea to use drop shadow to make things glow!

[@christophemignerat6115]

Very nice ! Thank you

[@umm-salmaadam6637]

Thank you, amazing tutorial. I have been looking for something similar for my art work. a divine glow light falling on an open book. is this the same technique I should follow and instead of Blue, I should use more whitish light? Thank you, appreciated.

[@leehalvorsen2219]

I am not able to widen my glow rings by unlinking the mask from the layer, command/click the layer to get marching ants on the ring, in the layer holding the option key down; about 23:30 in the video. The behavior I get is always to move the entire ring. I've done it several times with same result...I must be missing something, I mimicked your keystrokes exactly. Thanks, Lee

[@nuclylearn]

Make sure you have the rings layer selected and when you're dragging the ring, hold down the option key (MAC) or alt key (PC). This will copy the pixels of the ring rather than moving them, effectively making your ring thicker by copying it onto itself.

[@leehalvorsen2219]

@@nuclylearn Thanks, I thought the action was supposed to enlarge the area of the ring, I have been duplicating it but not thinking that was the right solution.

[@SPDBIKER]

Thanks for another brilliant tutorial. Can I ask why do you use 72 pixel resolution?

[@nuclylearn]

It's the default for screens, which is where most the art is viewed. When working on print projects, I use 300 dpi as my default resolution.

[@ErikGoulet1]

What us the difference between Drop Shadows instead of your Glow Action?

[@nuclylearn]

The lightsaber glow action effectively does the same thing, using layers instead of layer effects. Two methods to achieve the same result.