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Cinematic Light Rays | Photoshop Tutorial

Create advanced looking light beams or sun rays for text, artwork, and photography using a few simple steps in Adobe Photoshop. In this tutorial, we’ll use a free Photoshop action combined with a few techniques for a dramatic final look. Fonts used in this tutorial: Modia, Eagle. Download the action below, or create it from scratch using this post.

4 textures used in this tutorial:

Atmosphere 127 - Drifting fog

small: 960×641 jpg

medium: 1920×1281 jpg

large: 4240×2829 jpg

x large: 6947×4634 jpg

LensFX 139 - Sun flare

small: 960×640 jpg

medium: 1920×1280 jpg

large: 3840×2560 jpg

Light Rays Action - Photoshop preset

.ATN file

Light Rays Gradient Presets - Gradient preset

.GRD file

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Lightlight beamslight rayssun rays