Activity : Cosmic Effects in Photoshop

Tutorial Assets

The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial.

 Star Brushes
 Fractal
 Girl Image
 Marble Image

Now that we have everything we need, so let’s start!

Step 1:- Create a new file with 785px Width and 585px Height.

Step 2:- Now click on Layer> New> Layer. And create a new layer. Then select the “Paint Bucket
Tool” and fill the background with # 000000.
Step 3:- Now open the Girl image and paste it to our file.
Step 4:- Select the Pen Tool and create a path along the girl.
Step 5:- Now right click on the path and select “Make selection”. Then copy and paste the selection.
Step 6:- Create a new layer and select differnt star brushes and use them randomly with color #
ffffff.
Step 7:- Select the Eraser Tool and erase the stars from the middle.
Step 8:- Now open the marble image, then copy and paste the marble on the upper left corner.
Step 9:- Now duplicate the marble layer a few times, so for this right click on the layer and select
“Duplicate Layer”.
Step 10:- Open the Fractal and place it on our file.
Step 11:- Change the blending mode of the fractal to “Overlay”.
Step 12:- Create a new layer and then select a soft round brush. Now use different colors to roughly
cover the background.
Step 13:- Now change the blending mode of the above layer to “Color”.
Step 14:- Now select the Rectangle Tool and create a rectangle.
Step 15:- Change the blending mode of the rectangle to “Overlay”.
Step 16:- Now click on Layer> Layer style> Bevel and Emboss.
Step 17:- Now select the Eraser Tool and erase half of the rectangle from left side.
Step 18:- Simply duplicate the layer a few times.
And now we are done.