Photoshop Tutorial - part one

Photoshop Sparkles: Add A Sparkle Trail To A Photo

In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we're going to learn how to add a sparkle trail to a photo, using a custom Photoshop sparkle brush we'll be creating. I got the idea for this tutorial after seeing the poster for an upcoming Dustin Hoffman/Natalie Portman movie, "Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium", but of course sparkle trails have been around since the days of Peter Pan and Tinkerbell, and I'm sure even long before that.

Here's the image I'll be starting Click to download

I'm going to make her magic wand look a little more magical by adding a sparkle trail. Here's how it will look when we're done:

Let's get started.

As I mentioned, we'll be creating our sparkle trail using a custom made Photoshop "sparkle" brush, and the first thing we need to do is create our brush. To begin, go up to the File menu at the top of the screen and choose New, which brings up Photoshop's New Document dialog box. You can also access the New Document dialog box using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+N (Win) / Command+N. Enter 200 pixels for the Width and 200 pixels for the Height, and make sure the Background Contents option near the bottom is set to White so our new document has a white background, then click OK:

Step 1: Open A New Photoshop Document

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