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Stage Lights

 

Learn how to make these smoky stage lights by creating a gradient selection in quick mask mode and applying some filters and layer styles.

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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44 Comments

  1. Celeste said on — May 30, 2008 @ 5:00 pm

    Pretty cool Corey! thanks and keep ‘em coming.

  2. samia said on — May 30, 2008 @ 5:48 pm

    wow Ilove it

  3. Gameguru101 said on — May 30, 2008 @ 8:43 pm

    WOW do you ever run out of ideas and tutorials, you have tutorials coming out of your ears.

  4. Jason Loucs said on — May 30, 2008 @ 9:15 pm

    Corey,

    Another great tutorial for all of us. You are amazing. Thanks so much! Keep up the fine work.

  5. almutere said on — May 30, 2008 @ 10:30 pm

    imba Corey!!

    thanks very much for ur Tutorials

  6. sanjeev said on — May 31, 2008 @ 3:27 am

    Best tutorial so far, keep up the great work Corey!

  7. kurt said on — May 31, 2008 @ 1:57 pm

    really great, corey. an excellent and unusual tutorial. just perfect and inspirational.
    -kurt

  8. Dani Crisan said on — June 1, 2008 @ 9:11 am

    omg sooooo coooooooooooooool dude

  9. vu said on — June 1, 2008 @ 4:18 pm

    so cool, Corey. You have talents, man.

  10. Victor M said on — June 1, 2008 @ 7:37 pm

    this tutorial is amazing keep doing we are learning a lot ,,
    Thank you

  11. Jorge said on — June 2, 2008 @ 9:15 am

    This one was great, Corey. It would love to see how you would handle the glow on the band if you were to use two different colours of light.

  12. Brandon said on — June 2, 2008 @ 1:12 pm

    Great Tutorial. You should make the project fils available to use, just like the ones you guys do on Layers TV.

  13. Carl said on — June 2, 2008 @ 1:39 pm

    Hi corey,

    Man…Another very well explained tut….I love these..and am learning so much….please keep them up…

  14. John said on — June 2, 2008 @ 11:14 pm

    Ahhhhhhh wow…love this tutorial, way to go… You da boss Corey…

  15. DarkThoughts said on — June 3, 2008 @ 2:38 am

    holy S**T dude! this is awesome!!!! loved it!!! cant wait to see all your other tuts! excellent works just excellent!

  16. Alexandria said on — June 3, 2008 @ 11:22 am

    This tutorial is terrible. Not really. It is great and has so many applications, really gets my wheels turning. Just thought I’d mix the comments up a bit :P

  17. Issac said on — June 4, 2008 @ 5:07 am

    Holy CRAP man! That’s freakin’ intense! Outstanding work!

  18. Kyle said on — June 4, 2008 @ 9:50 am

    Awesome tut. Very informative and has many more applications than the subject shown. Thanks for your wonderful service to this community!

  19. Sean said on — June 4, 2008 @ 4:14 pm

    Thanks so much i have learned so much from all of these tutorials and please keep them coming, thanks again

  20. David said on — June 4, 2008 @ 4:52 pm

    Really good.
    I think you said the shortcuts too quickly and I got a little lost during colour fill, but otherwise I found it a very good tutorial.

    Thank you.
    David J

  21. jean said on — June 5, 2008 @ 9:57 am

    Man all i got to say is that is one cool trick i tried it out with some other black and white backgrounds and the results are crazy. there was times i did get lost a bit but i got back up and did it. keep ‘em coming

  22. Gabriel Rodriguez said on — June 5, 2008 @ 3:32 pm

    Awesome tutorial yo, do you got the band image so i can try it? Thanks

  23. Dick Katz said on — June 7, 2008 @ 1:14 am

    Cool man - - - Very cool.

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  25. Sérgio said on — June 11, 2008 @ 9:56 am

    i’m having a problem in the last step. When i add the solid color adjustment layer my document just keeps black and white like i never added anything. Does anyone know what i’m doing wrong? I’m kind a new in Photoshop

  26. KEN said on — June 12, 2008 @ 9:45 am

    AWSOME

  27. Kenny said on — June 13, 2008 @ 1:09 pm

    you’re putting us lighting guys out of a job :(

  28. donella debesa said on — June 13, 2008 @ 7:06 pm

    so interesting so different and very well explained!
    Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
    Donella
    Arte Moderno Cubano

  29. Seven In Vegas said on — June 19, 2008 @ 10:36 am

    I work in lighting for a showroom in Las Vegas…and am a photographer…this lets me enhance all my photos and graphics in a phat way!!!!! Outstanding!!!

  30. Samurai said on — June 22, 2008 @ 6:02 am

    Awesome man! btw I’ve been trying to find out how to get the workspace background in ps transparent so i can get to files without minimizing ps. never found the solution. care to tell me any1?

  31. Jorge Nieva said on — June 25, 2008 @ 2:13 am

    Estoy sorprendido con este tutorial, me gustó muchisimo; justamente lo que estaba buscanso, ese efecto tan real de estar en un escnario con sus luces.Realmente es grandioso tu trabajo.Muchas Gracias

  32. Cyberbite said on — June 25, 2008 @ 10:23 am

    Simply amazin!!! Dats creative dude!!

  33. Matuvo said on — June 29, 2008 @ 3:03 pm

    i’m just a little kid around 13 years and is willing to learn alot about this if you could help me out that would mean the world to me.. and your really good at nice job!!!

  34. destroyer~lws~ said on — June 30, 2008 @ 12:25 pm

    really good tut thanks

  35. Jennifer said on — July 1, 2008 @ 10:42 pm

    Wow-Ive been looking at tutorials on PS for a week and just came across yours tonight. Apparently you single-handedly created PS,kidding but you are by far the most talented on the web, and you do it without sounding like a complete dork..thanks!

  36. shan said on — July 2, 2008 @ 4:51 pm

    swell… and what an easy to do it! thanks much for sharing.

  37. Anand said on — July 22, 2008 @ 11:38 am

    hey frendz
    can anyone send me the whole tutorial os the stage light as written to my mail ?
    plz frendz help mee coz my system wont support flash player 9 and hence the video wont play…………
    so i kindky request u frendz to forward me this tutorial so that i can also know abt this tutorial ………….

  38. Dynomyke said on — August 7, 2008 @ 9:43 pm

    Amazing, Just simply Amazing

    In my own Opinion, i liked the Soft Light

  39. danhm said on — August 15, 2008 @ 5:42 pm

    very veryy nice..thanks a lot…….I have a doubt…we can copy this movie of tutorial to keep it????

  40. Xavi said on — September 10, 2008 @ 10:18 am

    Hi guys, do you know why i can not see all the video-tutorial?? When it isin the middle, it appears and add and then the video doesn’t continue playing…

    Thanks

  41. ibi said on — September 14, 2008 @ 11:30 pm

    nice but where do u get ur photos mate

  42. rachel said on — September 18, 2008 @ 3:56 am

    this is really nice :)
    i tried it <3<3<3

  43. Voskan said on — September 27, 2008 @ 12:40 pm

    This tutorial is really amazing!!!

    I cant imagine people have nice ideas like this!

    But I say it 10 seconds ago.;)

    Keep amazing us!

    Voskan

  44. David said on — November 11, 2008 @ 1:48 pm

    Good tut.

    I had to do the gradient selection backwards though. Otherwise the marching ants were on top. I did everything you did, don’t know why it gave opposite. The quick mask looked the same, but when I came out of quick mask mode, the marching ants were on the top half, not bottom half. :P

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