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25 Brilliant Glow Effects

Written by Ross August 29, 2008

Glowing effects are getting used more and more now and they look awesome when done well so I’ve compiled a list of the best tutorials showing you how to achieve these effects. All these Photoshop tutorials give you great results and a good explanation of how to get there. I’ve included 25 so it should keep you busy for a while anyway!

Glowing light trails

Create this awesome effect and learn a thing or two about the pen tool.

Sparkling girl

Learn how to mix people with glowing effects in this great tutorial

Electrifying energy beams

Use Photoshop to create these energy beams that glow and sparkle.

Electrifying energy beams

Learn a quick and useful technique to make stuff glow

Advanced glow effect

Use a combination of layer styles and blending to give the glowing effect.

Luminescent lines

One of mine focusing on achieving the popular glowing lines effect.

Simple glowing beams

A simple yet effective light effect in Photoshop.

Green glowing portfolio

Use the glowing effects in web design.

Glowing light painting

Mimic the effect of a long exposure light painting in this tutorial.

Glowing rings

Create tutorial on creating this amazing effect.

Colorful glowing text

Learn how to achieve this stylish glowing text effect

Neon text

A simple technique that will allow you to create glowing neon text.

Layered glowing text

Use multiple layers to get this lighting effect in Photoshop.

Glowing sparks

Another simple yet useful technique to create glowing sparks.

Blue glowing layout

This tutorial shows how to make a blue glowing web layout with a brilliant result.

Fantasy light effects

Learn some light effects that give the fantasy feel to an image.

Glowing flower

Learn how to make this image from scratch using transparency effectively.

Glowing forest

This tutorial shows how to add some fantasy lighting effects to your photography.

Magic glow effect

Create some really nice lighting effects by using text.

Glowing website header

Learn how to create and use this glowing effect in a website.

Viva la Vida

Learn how to create the effect from the Apple ad which featuring Coldplay.

Scanline text

Create this glowing scanline text effect in Photoshop.

Glowing planet

This tutorial shows you how to use outer glows to give impressive results.

Surreal glowing planet

This one shows how to make a slightly less realistic planet that also glows.

Vista effect

Learn how to create the Windows Vista style background in Photoshop

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18 Responses:

  • August 29th, 2008

    NaldzGraphics:

    Great list!!! Its looks more abstract style:)thanks

    Ronald

  • August 29th, 2008

    Ross:

    Thanks Ronald, glad you found it useful

  • September 1st, 2008

    David Leggett:

    Thanks for including some of our articles from Tutorial9 in here. Quite a wonderful list you’ve put together!

  • September 2nd, 2008

    Ross:

    Thanks David, I like what you’re doing over at Tutorial9 and I check your site most days; it’s great. Thanks for stopping by!

  • September 10th, 2008

    Tim:

    Just stumbled this site – it’s great. I will be book marking for future reference..
    Tim

  • September 14th, 2008

    xual:

    Thanks for the posting this glowing effects

    thanks for helpp

  • October 6th, 2008

    Gian:

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  • October 20th, 2008

    Fabrizio:

    Tnx 4 this post ^^

  • February 10th, 2009

    Hendi:

    I Just wanna say :
    F U N T A S T I C !!!
    Thankz Ross!!

  • April 20th, 2009

    wgs_ind:

    cool …more tutorial ;)

  • January 7th, 2010

    Liza:

    Hi,

    Thank you so much for featuring my “Plasma in The Lake” tutorial. I just have one concern, if I may – I moved the forum to a blog platform, could you please change the link for the tut(# 16 here) from
    http://www.loreleiweb.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9518

    to

    http://loreleiwebdesign.com/2008/07/05/fantasy-art-photopshop-tutorial-plasma-in-the-lake/

    That would be much appreciated as the forum is totally inactive and people can’t view the tutorial.

    Thank you!!
    Liza Kliko aka Lorelei

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