28 Powerful Photoshop Lighting Effects
There is something about beautiful lights that can mesmerize an audience. Take a fireworks show for example. It’s been around for thousands of years, yet still has the power to put looks of amazement on faces of all ages. That’s why lighting effects make such powerful design elements. They are a great way to grab the attention of your audience and leave a lasting impression.
Below is a collection of the best Photoshop tutorials for creating powerful lighting effects.
Amazing Photoshop Light Effect In 10 Steps
A smokey light effect complete with glowing particles.
Fire Lines Tutorial
This tutorial teaches you how to create stylish fire lines in only 10 steps.
Luminescent Lines
Iron Man View Interface Effect In Photoshop
This is very close to the amazing effects seen in the movie.
Luminescent Lines
Advanced Glow Effects
A Cool Lighting Effect In Photoshop
End of the World Photo Manipulation
Creating Smoke
A popular effect explained very well.
Design a Coldplay/Apple Inspired Portrait in Photoshop
This one shows you how to design portraits based on the Coldplay – Apple ad.
Magic Lighting Effect In Photoshop
Make your image look awesome with a few light effects
Flying Girl In Photoshop
Creating light motion trails & glowing sparks
A nice technique for creating light motion lines.
Awesome Digital Bokeh Effect In Photoshop
Create An Amazing Ad In Photoshop
Beijing 2008 Logo Light Painting in Photoshop
Mysterious Lighting Effect Tutorial for Photoshop
Space Lighting Effects in 10 Steps – Photoshop Tutorial
Design a Vista Styled Wallpaper
Expressive lighting effects
Really cool Eclipse Effect in Photoshop
True Flames
Create an incredible flame / solar flare effect in only a few short steps.
Super Fast – Speed Lighting Effect
Add A Sparkle Trail To A Photo
Lighting effects in Photoshop
This tutorial shows you how to jazz up a photo with creative lighting.
How to Create Brilliant Light Streaks in Photoshop
This tutorials teaches a simple technique for creating brilliant light streaks which can be used in different ways to add motion and brightness to your designs.
































November 20th, 2008
Thanks mate! ,
Looks very hot.
i’m gonna try them
November 20th, 2008
I’ll probably be using some of these techniques on an upcoming project. Very timely post!! Thanks!
November 20th, 2008
Terrific! Thanks for sharing.
November 20th, 2008
Great Resource. I love them all.
November 20th, 2008
So nice!
November 20th, 2008
Aww noo way, more great PS tuts. When will I ever find time to play with these!
November 20th, 2008
Wow, Photoshop is the bomb dude.
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November 20th, 2008
Nice tuts
November 20th, 2008
this is amazing lighting effects … cool!..
November 21st, 2008
i want to know photoshop-lighting .
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November 21st, 2008
Wow! These looks amazing. Can’t wait to try some of these effects. Thank you.
November 21st, 2008
absolutely great tutorials!!!!
November 21st, 2008
Awesome! Thanks a million for sharing
November 21st, 2008
Great Resource. So nice!
November 21st, 2008
I’m totally new to Photoshop, and am amazed what can be achieved with this software.
Inspirational work shown here.
November 21st, 2008
Thanks for sharing.Amazing…
November 21st, 2008
best tuts
November 21st, 2008
Nice tutorials
November 21st, 2008
beautiful collection, cheers for that
November 22nd, 2008
like 80% of them is the same guy. just check out his site. abduzeedo dot com
November 22nd, 2008
tanks for your informative. its very useful
November 22nd, 2008
Most of these are cheesy to the max, wouldn’t touch them with a barge pole. Eclipse, Space Lighting, Flying Girl, and the first one (coffee cop) are the only interesting ones here in my opinion.
November 23rd, 2008
Very awesome stuff here! I think that thanks to these tutorials/ideas I will be able to help out some friends of mine. Thanks a bunch!!
November 23rd, 2008
Holy crap this post is awesome! I’m going to use like five of these tutorials. Hey do any of you want to design some sweet t-shirts? Checkout http://www.SGTEE.com and submit a design, you could win $500!
November 24th, 2008
this is really an awesome site! thnks
November 25th, 2008
this tuts really rock! thanks.. awesome, indeed!
November 26th, 2008
Pretty cool and very informative Photo shop Lighting Effects!!
November 27th, 2008
greate stuf thangx…
November 27th, 2008
This is good article, thanks a lot!
November 27th, 2008
All the photographs are very nice…..i search for this type of photos to send to my friends…..
Thanks for this nice article
November 27th, 2008
This is good article, thanks a lot!
November 27th, 2008
hello
November 27th, 2008
Great Art. I love to designing but designing is not my line.
November 28th, 2008
these are awesome ,
they reallly helped me .
November 28th, 2008
Those look awesome, bookmarked and will try them later.
November 28th, 2008
Amazing!
December 1st, 2008
Fantastic. It certainly goes a long way at coming out with better designs using these lighting effects.
December 2nd, 2008
thanks pal…
they’re extremely cool.
December 2nd, 2008
Video tutorials?
December 2nd, 2008
photoshopped…
December 2nd, 2008
Very cool. Great list all in one place!
December 4th, 2008
Nice tutorials!!!
December 5th, 2008
Great Resource. I love them all.
December 9th, 2008
good resource for me
December 10th, 2008
Very nice.. i’m new to photoshop and this seems to be really ease….Thanks to all your help guys… by the way i want to mention about http://www.lifehacker.com…. They are the best… check them out……
December 10th, 2008
BRILLIANT!
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December 11th, 2008
Great looking pics.
December 12th, 2008
O yeah, time start learning again.
December 14th, 2008
um, like english hopefully…
December 14th, 2008
Ive seen some of these before, but they are all excellent!
December 15th, 2008
Excellent !!!
great post
December 16th, 2008
Very awesome stuff here! I think that thanks to these tutorials/ideas I will be able to help out some friends of mine. Thanks a bunch!!
December 22nd, 2008
this tuts really rock! thanks.. awesome, indeed!!
January 11th, 2009
Great tutorials, very useful, thank you!
January 12th, 2009
Great collection of photoshop tutorials. Thank you.
January 15th, 2009
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January 16th, 2009
Amazing stuffs!!!
Thx for sharing
January 23rd, 2009
Oh i like so much, love you website
January 27th, 2009
the effects are great. I love them.
January 29th, 2009
Great list, lots of reading there.
February 2nd, 2009
Very Nice list. Thanks for sharing!
February 4th, 2009
This just came in handy. Thanks!
February 5th, 2009
great tutorials
February 9th, 2009
This is a real treasure! Thank you so much!
February 9th, 2009
Cool.cool cool very very thanks.
February 11th, 2009
Is this only for cs4?
February 16th, 2009
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February 16th, 2009
thanks for the awesome tutorial list I was looking for one of these and your list helped me find it
February 22nd, 2009
sweetness!
February 23rd, 2009
I’m so excited about trying these ideas. Thanks for the inspiration and education to apply the effects!
March 11th, 2009
I like coffee cup effect)
April 4th, 2009
muy bueno
April 18th, 2009
That’s quite a cool collection. Bookmarked!
May 11th, 2009
Very nicely done Nike fire
June 18th, 2009
This is the best collection I’ve seen in a while, Dugg and Tweeted. Thanks
July 1st, 2009
HOT!!!