Lighting Effects

Lighting Effects, like those in Pure Nitro's UI

And Arashi's


I think you get what I mean. Anyways, Several Clients have begun to ask for that type of thing in their Sigs / UI / Whatever, But I can't figure out how to make it no matter where I look. Is there any place that really teaches making these?

 

Top one is a plugin for adobe after effects that Kin uses, called optical flares. Bottom one is just some soft brushing or some type of white object with a glow around it.

 

Thanks. I have after effects, so I'll look into getting that

 

You could do this by hand in Photoshop as well by placing a small white circle, duplicating it, and using Gaussian Blur. repeat duplication on that layer and blur twice as much the second time. Repeat as desired for this over-glow effect.

 

It looks like the Pure one you could do with a bit of clever displacement mapping, smudging, and sharpening.

 

Thanks everybody, I was really getting frustrated.