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Purple Haze tutorial in Photoshop

This tutorial will teach us on -

  • To create a custom brush in photoshop
  • To play around with layer blending mode
  • And of course to ultimately create 'Purple Haze'

Let's follow the steps below to create Purple Haze effect in Photoshop

  • Open a new Photoshop file of 700px x 700px dimension with gray background.
  • Create a new layer. Choose Elipse tool (U) from tool bar and draw a black circle of 50% opacity.

  • With this circle selected, go to ‘Layer > Layer Styles > Blending Mode’ from main menu.
  • Select ‘Overlay’ as blending mode and ‘50% opacity’.

  • For Stroke – ‘Size 10’, Position – ‘Outside’ and Color – ‘Black’. Finally click on ‘OK’ button.
  • Select this particular shape from ‘Layer' window and go to ‘Edit > Define Brush Preset’ and save.

  • Now delete this ‘Brush Stroke’.
  • Create a new layer and select ‘Color’ from ‘Layer’ Window.
  • To fill color to this layer, go to ‘Layer > Layer Styles > Gradient Overlay.
  • Select ‘Overlay’ as Blending Mode, Linear gradient fill with black, purple and black as colors for linear gradient fill.

     
  • Now go back to your ‘Layer’ window. Create a folder and select ‘Color Dodge’ (blending mode).
  • Under this folder, create a new layer.
  • Now select brush tool from tool box and open ‘brushes’ window. Follow instruction and change settings based on screenshots provided below



  • Draw vertical lines beside each other and the final result is as shown below.


Tags: Purple haze tutorial, custom brush in photoshop, Blending mode, Gradient fill, Gradient Overlay, Color blending mode, Color Dodge blending mode
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