Experiment with energy flares in photoshop, i was seeing how i could add energy blasts to a image

1. This was an image I took today of myself, I just want to show what I might do with my double page article image. I positioned my hands high and open so I could add good effects to the hands (energy blasts).

2. I then selected the image I wanted from the background.

3. I cut the image

4. Pasted it into a new layer

5. I started erasing the background parts

6. This is close up of when I was erasing the background

7. This was it when I finally erased the background

8. I added a new layer for the background

9. I painted it black with the paint tool

10. I added ‘noise’ to create a star effect

11. I then added a gaussian blur

12. I then went to filter, other, threshold to make the white spots stand out more

13. I added more gaussian blur to make the stars look realistic

14. I went to offset

15. The ‘offset’ tool made the stars duplicate and it looked more vibrant

16. This was the final background image

17. I Indicated layer visibility of the first layer (the one of me)

18. I added glow balls with the brush tool, I had the brush as a soft brush to create realistic energy ball

19. I then went to filter, lighting effects

20. I added a ‘lens flare’ to look as if the balls were generating out of my hands

21. I then wanted to colour of the balls to be a blue or something vibrant, so I added a photo filter

22. This was it after I added a blue photo filter, it looked very realistic

23. I added a ‘ellipse’ shape with the ellipse tool

24. I then went to filter, wave to add a wave to the ‘ellipse’; it looked as if the balls were connected

25. This was the final image, I was very pleased with it. This is the sort of effect I want on my double page article image, so sort of light coming out of the models hands.