The first thing you will notice is that all layers are in the timeline. Select the left layer and paint another spot of light on top of the left part. With the Brush Tool (B) and a very soft brush, paint with white on top of the right part of the letter A. Change the folder's Blend Mode to Color Dodge. After that group these 2 layers in a folder. That's why I will cover the first steps quickly.Īdd 2 layers on top of the other layers and name them right and left. Again the idea of this tutorial is to play with the timeline feature. It's very similar with another tutorial I wrote a few years ago showing how to create a neon effect in Photoshop. This is the results you will get after the layer styles. Use Inner Shadow and Inner Glow using the settings below. Just follow the instructions below for Bevel & Emboss, Inner Shadow, Inner Glow, Color Overlay, Outer Glow and Drop Shadow.ĭuplicate the layer and disable the layer styles. To create the light effect we will use Layer Styles. I am using the letter A of Abduzeedo using a stencil font called Major Snafu. Use Soft Light for the Blend Mode.Īdd a text you want to use for the light effect. Use Radial for the Style and for the colors use black and #38556f for the center.Īdd a new layer and fill it with a pattern. Fill the background layer with any color, then go to Layer>Layer>Styles>Gradient Overlay.

Open Photoshop CS6 and create a new document. The whole process is super simple and won't take you more than 20 minutes. So in this tutorial we will show you a simple animation using the new timeline and some light effect tricks.

As the idea of the blog is to play with these tools, we decided to come up with something for this new feature. Photoshop CS6 has some great features, one of them is the new timeline for basic animations and this time Photoshop gets a little bit of the After Effects taste.

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