Hello, I'm Helen Bradley.
Welcome to this video tutorial.
In this tutorial we're going to look at applying a very small Starlight effect to a portrait.
In this video I'm going to show you how to create a sort of Starlight effect like this
in an image and we're going to do it using a simple brush.
Now you could add it to a shiny point on a portrait for example someone's eye or you
could add a much larger one to a background.
All I'm going to do is show you where you can find the kind of tools that you would
use for this process and how to do it.
So let's just close this image down right now and this is the original image that we're
working on.
This is actually a very low res image.
So I'm just going to start with it here.
And before we can get started we need a brush to use so I just went to the web and I looked
up free style brushes and I found a set of style brushes here that I kind of liked.
And so all I did was click to download them.
Once they're downloaded you'll need to unzip them.
So these are nearly ready for us to have a look at.
Here they are.
They've opened automatically and this is the file that I'm looking for, this ABR file.
So I will click to extract all the files because I need to extract the ABR file from the zip
file.
Having done that I need to put it in the place where Photoshop can find it.
I'll select the file and I'm actually just going to copy and paste it.
So I'm going to copy it and now the location that we're going to use is on the C drive
so we're go to C drive and then Users.
I'm going to My User area here and then I'll choose App Data.
From App Data in here I will choose Roaming and then Adobe and now I'll choose my version
of Adobe Photoshop.
I'm using Photoshop CS6 right now so I'm going to click CS6 and then I'm going to just open
that folder, go to Presets and then go to Brushes and I'm just going to paste it here
into Brushes.
Now I already have it in here so I'm just going to replace that set.
Now we can come out and we can go to Photoshop and load these brushes.
Now if we were to close Photoshop and reopen it the brushes would be pretty much accessible
to us so I'm going to do that right now.
I'm just going to close this image and we'll save this and let's close Photoshop and reopen
it.
Now when I reopen Photoshop I'm going back to opening my file and the brush should now
be available.
So we're going to click the Brush tool here and then I'll go to the Brush palette and
select this small icon the Gear icon in the top corner.
And now the brush will be in the list here because Photoshop has had a chance to read
that brushes preset folder and this is the list of all the brushes that are in that folder.
So I want to select that one.
And I just want to append these.
So I want to append them to the end of my brushes set.
So I'm going to need to go down to the very end to find them.
Now I've got them in twice because I've appended them twice but that's alright.
I'm going to click this one, this is a four pointed Star effect brush.
So I'm just going to click it to use it.
Now it's way too big for this image so I'm just going to size it down by pressing the
Square Bracket key.
We'll also just zoom into the image so that we can see clearly the area that we're going
to be working on.
And the brush size is reasonably good, maybe just a little bit smaller.
Now I want to work on a new layer because that will separate the glint or the Star effect
from the rest of the image so that if I need to move it or change it I can do so.
I'm going to make sure white is my foreground color and I'm just going to click where I
want the Star effect to be.
And if it's too much of an effect I can just wind down the opacity of the layer.
Because the Star effect is on a layer by itself I can click that layer and click the Move
tool.
And now we could rotate it around.
So instead of being up and down we could have a sort of diagonal Star effect.
What you may want to do if you've got an image like I have here where perhaps the eyes are
a little bit on the soft side, I selected the Sharpen tool here.
I've turned the Strength down to 23 percent.
I'm on the layer that has the girl's face on it and I'm just going to sharpen her eyes
just a little bit.
And by sharpening the eyes I'll just brighten them a little bit and so they're a little
bit better to support the glint, the Starlight effect that I've put in her eyes.
And there's the final result.
Of course it can be moved around by just clicking on the Move tool.
Click on that layer and we can move it wherever we want to move it to.
I'm Helen Bradley.
Thank you for joining me for this video tutorial.
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