Create a beautiful rainbow starry sky with Photoshop

This tutorial mainly introduces the production of a beautiful cartoon starry sky effect. The idea is: first make a dark background, and then use the set brush to make clouds. The brush setting is very important. Usually we will ignore its role and match the brush with Nice style. The clouds made like this are very nice. Finally, add rainbow and star brushes to complete the final effect.

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1. Create a new 600px * 375px file, unlock it, then double-click the layer to bring up the layer style and select gradient overlay. The color and parameter settings are as shown in Figure 1, and the effect is as shown in Figure 2


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2. Create a new layer and press the letter "D" to return the front background color to black and white. Execute the menu: Filter > Render > Clouds. After confirmation, press Ctrl + Alt + F to enhance the effect until you are satisfied with it. The effect is as shown in Figure 3. Then change the layer blending mode to "Linear Burn" and the effect is as shown in Figure 4


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3. Select the brush tool and press "F5" to bring up the brush panel parameter settings as shown in Figure 5-7

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4. Create a new layer and name it cloud layer. Double-click the layer to bring up the layer style parameter settings as shown in Figure 8-11.

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5. Copy the styled layer into three copies and divide it into upper, middle and lower layers. Use the brush tool to click on the top layer. Add a few more points to the middle layer as shown in Figure 13. The bottom layer The effect is as shown in Figure 14

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6. In the same way, we can create multiple cloud effects, as shown in Figure 15

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7. Merge several clouds appropriately and then change the layer blending mode to "Overlay". The effect is as shown in Figure 16

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8. This step is to create a rainbow effect. Create a new 600px * 600px file, then create a new layer and use the rectangular marquee tool to draw a long selection and fill it with dark blue. Copy a few more layers and fill them with different colors, as shown in Figure 17. Combine several long bars of different colors, press Ctrl +

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9. Drag the rainbow in and place it under the cloud layer, scale it appropriately, and then delete the excess area outside the cloud. The effect is as shown in Figure 20.

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10. Finally, apply the brush. Pay attention to constantly changing the blending mode and color of the brush. If you want to decorate other brushes, please click here to download to complete the final effect.

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