How to Create REALISTIC Light Rays in Photoshop 

This was a very helpful tutorial and still relevant in the year 2020. Thank you very much for making it. People like you truly carry the creative industry on your backs, and for that we are endlessly grateful.

This was exactly what I needed to finish a client project! I appreciate the easy-to-follow instructions.

Very helpful indeed, just what I was looking for in the illustration I'm working on. Thanks very much!

Thanks, great method. A tip if you only want the rays streaming in a particular direction and angle: enlarge your canvas and move your painted dots. The zoom blur always centers on the center point of the canvas. If you want to show a light source pointing, e.g. up and to the right, make a big canvas and move the dots to the upper right quadrant before you do the blur effect. The further your dots are from the center point, the tighter the angle of the rays. If you want to represent a distant light source with rays that are almost parallel, move your dots far from the center point.

This was an extremely helpful tutorial! Thank you for sharing this!

you are a godsend, thank you!!!

Interesting perspective! I thought it would be done by radial gradient, but you surprised us!

Thank you man spectacular advice!!! God bless you!

Extremely sympathetic and patient teaching! Utmost blessings!

Even in 2022, this tutorial works great for me!

Awesome, learned how to make the bokeh effect and light rays. Thank you.

Great video thank you I have been trying to figure something like this for a while.

This was such an amazing and truly helpful tutorial. Thanks!

Oh my goodness, thank you so much for this tutorial! I am not an artist and I needed an effect like this and this method is perfect! Liked and subscribed :)

Thank you, fantastic video, clearly explained!

Thanks for the awesome video! just two tips though, Hitting "X" switches the two colours of the brush so you don't have to constantly click on it and drag to black or white! and hitting "D" sets the brush to it's default colours too (black as primary and white as secondary)

So fun! Thanks!

So nice! I guess I can use this technique to create a light of an interior lamp?

thank you soooo muchhhh for your tutorial😍

Awesome info, exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for sharing!

wow!!!! thanks!!!👍

such a great tutorial you have made for us. Thanks a ton.

extremely helpful thank you!

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Amazing! I from Brazil and love your technique.

Awsome video, thanks man!

thank you so much ! :D

Thank you!

Lovely !!!! Very Helpfull

excellent video!

great job thank you

Marvelous tutorial!!! I have a project that needed light rays added, I watched a bunch of videos, YOURS is the best!! You are a great instructor, subscribed!!! Thank You.

Excellent!!!

Very good video work!!

I want to ask can you make a video on how to get clients on the internet?

Thank you so much this video is amazing, did my last thumbnail using it

You can also change the brush size and hardness by pressing the Alt-key(option key on Mac) and the right mouse button at the same time....move the mouse right and left for size and up and down for hardness. :}

Mind blown!

wow!!! Awesome!!! ♥ Love it!

This is cool (thank you), but I was hoping to see how you made the light rays look realistic through the letters of the solid font (like in the thumbnail for this video).

it works perfectly Thank you very much:)

Very helpful tutorial :D

champion. thank you!

Interesting what would you do differently if it was a window on an angle?

Awesome!

very nice

Can you do a mobile tutorial?

This is a nice tutorial, but you only show how to apply this effect to a light source that is dead center of the canvas. Radial blur centers on the center. How do I aim it?

awesome... keep it...

My brush is not tapered at the ends, and the Opacity Jitter is grayed out.

How do I do the text in the thumbnail?

wel come

wow...

Bad ass

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Is not what I want

first :D

please turn ur mic down i dont like to hear the clicking of ur saliva

If you didn't show every single step done the wrong way before actually showing how to create the desired effect, this video could have been much shorter.

Thank you! was really helpful!