Create Light Rays in Photoshop

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create light rays in photoshop. Light beams can add atmosphere to any image that has a strong direction of light and is quite simple to create in Photoshop. Here we will put rays of light into a forest scene using separate layers and the radial blur tool. We will also fine tune the light beams using layer masks and the smudge tool.

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