Create a Believable Sun Rays??

[midnitejam]

Can someone point me to a tutorial for creating light rays?

Thanks.
MJ

[Xaran]

Check out this thread.

http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/scratch-pad/8393-light-rays-sunlight.html

Christine

[cspringer]

here's an interesting way. I did it a little different...used 2 grid lines to find center, made the black layer the background and second layer the picture. After making the rays, I set the ray layer to Screen mode and blurred.

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/re...essage=8654559

[Axleuk]

I put together a quick example on another quick method to create sunlight rays.

[cspringer]

here is a video you might like...it does a similar edit but makes adjustments for each ray (starts about the middle of the movie).

http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=66

[Axleuk]

Hi cspringer - that very similiar to my method, it was also the same tutorial that inspired my Shark image - Bert Rocks !!

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