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Light From 3D Shapes

 

Corey shares another way to get a cool 3D light beam effect.

Corey Barker

Corey Barker is Executive Producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com and is an Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. Corey has also made numerous appearances on the highly rated podcast, PhotoshopUser TV, and is co-host of Layers TV.

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20 Comments

  1. Dylan Dietz said on — March 12, 2010 @ 6:38 pm

    Another excellent tutorial Corey. I appreciate the ideas, inspiration and innovation.

    Cheers!

  2. Kole said on — March 12, 2010 @ 7:09 pm

    nice… :) but you could just use radial blur to make light beam as good as this..anyway nice work

  3. Robin Kanters said on — March 12, 2010 @ 7:14 pm

    Wow, Corey! That’s once again an awesome tutorial!
    I would’ve never thought of using a cone for that!

    Also, make sure to check out http://soytuaire.labuat.com/, a nice one to show aroung at the office ;) .

    Gr. Robin

  4. Ben said on — March 12, 2010 @ 8:28 pm

    Great effect, with it being 3d it makes it so much more flexible then just a radial blur.

    I wish you did your tuts more often Corey, you’re such a great instructor.

  5. Derek said on — March 12, 2010 @ 11:05 pm

    This tutorial doesn’t work so well with CS3, but a slight change and you can make some pretty kewl fireworks. happy accident effects!!!!

  6. Neox said on — March 13, 2010 @ 5:14 am

    Great tutorial!

  7. Matthijs Rosman said on — March 13, 2010 @ 11:48 am

    Thanks! Great tut!

    Tried it on a recent photo I took of my car:
    http://www.matthijsrosman.nl/bmw/BWM530D.jpg

    Pretty cool I’d say!

    Keep it up!

  8. sharpless said on — March 14, 2010 @ 4:36 am

    Very good tutorial, as always

  9. Kyle Maloney said on — March 18, 2010 @ 2:07 am

    Aww, it was working fine for me (for once) until the part where you have to save the opacity texture. mine always /hangs/crashes at that point. :(

  10. Denise Orford said on — March 19, 2010 @ 11:09 am

    it works for me, many thanks. it can also be used for other projects …great

  11. Chelle said on — March 21, 2010 @ 11:24 am

    I think the issue people are having may be with their video cards. Anytime I try to do 3D in Photoshop it tells me that it will be rendered by software only because the video card doesn’t meet the requirements.

  12. Balakumar said on — March 22, 2010 @ 12:41 am

    Nice. Thx….. but this works only on Adobe photoshop CS4 Extended

  13. L Phillips said on — March 23, 2010 @ 7:57 pm

    I really appreciate your videos Corey. I was wondering why in some videos like “Masking with Channels” recently, the ‘tut’ is fantastic and clear at full screen… but others are so fuzzy like “Light from 3D shapes”? I’m sure I’m not the only one noticing this. I wanted to brag on you when I saw the ‘channels’ video because so many times video tutorials are so tiny one cannot see the menus or the options being clicked. Upon choosing the ‘full screen’ option the screens are even fuzzier… I’d hoped you had found the magic solution with the channels video, but alas the sharpness was short-lived. I’m watching on the same monitor all the time and have not changed the settings.

  14. Lucy said on — March 26, 2010 @ 6:53 am

    Kyle:
    Make sure when you make “opacity – new texture” that “background contents” is “transparent” .
    PS: sorry for my bad english :)

  15. raziq said on — April 1, 2010 @ 12:56 am

    greate tutorial sir. i have one request sir if u could make webdesign tutorial.

  16. Gabriela said on — April 2, 2010 @ 12:01 am

    Hello,

    I have a question?
    if i can send you a picture would you be able to custaminze it!

  17. hari said on — April 9, 2010 @ 6:51 am

    nice dude good tutorial

  18. Haley said on — April 10, 2010 @ 9:33 am

    I don’t know why but I can’t get it. When I create a new texture (opacity option), my cone is still there. It doesn’t become transparent. And when I open texture after that, a new window pops open and the background colour is already white. Please advise me, if it’s possible. :) Thank you!

  19. funpages said on — July 9, 2010 @ 8:19 pm

    thanks for sharing your knowledge! it is hard to come across useful information on photoshop give in a very easy to understand way!

  20. Himanshu Kumar said on — July 12, 2010 @ 3:34 pm

    Hi Corey Barker
    I like your tips & tricks but I aske one question this is one merge backgound & resize the background and after i see the backgound then pixelet the background
    how to improve background
    Pls. give the tips & tricks my mail id
    thank you

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