In order to celebrate the grand festival, we always set off some fireworks to add to the fun. The fleeting fireworks are intoxicating. The National Day is coming soon, let’s use PS to create some gorgeous fireworks.
Final effect preview
1. Create a new file, set the foreground color to black, and fill the background layer. The effect is as shown in Figure 01.
Figure 1
2. Select the "Brush Tool" in the toolbox, set the brush size to 20 and the opacity to 100% in the property bar. Open the brush panel and select the "Shape Dynamic" option. Set the parameters as shown in Figure 02. Other dynamic settings are as follows: As shown in Figure 03.
Figure 2
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3. Set the foreground color to white. Create a new layer 1 in the layers panel and use the brush tool to draw a white line, as shown in Figure 04.
Figure 4
4. Copy layer 1 as a copy of layer 1. Select layer 1, execute the "Edit" → "Free Transform" command in the menu bar, move the center point of the free transform box downwards and rotate the free transform box 30 degrees counterclockwise. The effect is as shown in Figure 05.
Figure 5
5. Copy layer 1 again, select the move tool, execute the "Edit" → "Transform" → "Again" command in the menu bar, copy the white line and change the angle again, add a third white line, the effect is as shown in the figure 06 shown.
Figure 6: Adding a third white line
6. Use the same method to add more white lines. The effect is as shown in Figure 07.
Figure 7: Adding more white lines
7. Link all the layers where the fireworks are located in the layers panel, and then press Ctrl+E to merge the linked layers into layer 1.
8. In the layer panel, copy layer 1 to create a copy of layer 1, and hide layer 1. Execute the "Filter" → "Blur" → "Gaussian Blur" command in the menu bar. In the pop-up dialog box, set the radius to 7 pixels, as shown in Figure 08, and the image effect is shown in Figure 09.
Figure 8: Set the radius to 7 pixels
Figure 9: Image effect
9. Double-click the copy of layer 1 to open the layer style dialog box, select the "Gradient Overlay" style, set the parameters as shown in Figure 10, and the image effect is as shown in Figure 11.
Figure 10: Select the “Gradient Overlay” style
Figure 11: Image effect
10. Unhide layer 1. The effect is as shown in Figure 12. Copy layer 1 to layer 1 copy 2. The image effect is as shown in Figure 13.
Figure 13
11. Create a new layer 2. Hold down the Ctrl key and click on layer 1 to load the fireworks pattern into the selection. The effect is as shown in Figure 14.
Figure 14
12. Execute the "Select" → "Modify" → "Shrink" command in the menu bar, set the parameters as shown in Figure 15, and the image effect is shown in Figure 16.
Figure 15
Figure 16
13. Execute the "Select" → "Feather" command in the menu bar and set the parameters as shown in Figure 17.
Figure 17
14. Fill the selected area with white, and the image effect is as shown in Figure 18.
Figure 18
Then execute the "Filter" → "Blur" → "Gaussian Blur" command in the menu bar. In the pop-up dialog box, set the radius to 2, as shown in Figure 19.
Figure 19
15. Add a layer mask to layer 1, set the foreground color to black, select the gradient tool in the toolbox, select the gradient from foreground to transparent, set the type to radial gradient, drag from the middle of the fireworks to the outside, the image The effect is shown in Figure 20.
Figure 20
16. Merge the layer where the fireworks are located into layer 1, copy layer 1 as a copy of layer 1, hide the copy of layer 1, and set the opacity of layer 1 to 70%. The image effect is as shown in Figure 21.
Figure 21
17. Display the copy of layer 1 and execute the "Image" → "Adjustment" → "Decolor" command in the menu bar. The effect is as shown in Figure 22.
Figure 22
Then execute the "Filter" → "Blur" → "Gaussian Blur" command in the menu bar, set the parameters as shown in Figure 23, and the reduced image effect is shown in Figure 24.
Figure 23
Figure 24
18. Press Ctrl+U to open the Hue/Saturation dialog box, set the parameters as shown in Figure 25, and the image effect is as shown in Figure 26.
Figure 25
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19. After copying various fireworks with different sizes and brightness, the effect is as shown in Figure 27. Select a background, and the final effect is as shown in Figure 28.
Figure 27
Figure 28
