Creating Colorful Disco Lines Effect
| This simple tutorial will show how we can create professional-looking colored lines with the usage of Photoshop Brushes and Blend Modes. It’s an interesting find for me when I was doing random experiments with Photoshop. |
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| Create a document of 800×600 pixels. With Pencil tool of 1 pixel size, draw a vertical straight line. Using the Eraser tool of size 150px, erase the two ends of vertical line. Something like the one I have below. |
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| Create a selection around the vertical line. Go to Edit > Define Brush Preset. Give the new brush a name of your preference. |
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| Select the Brush tool and open up the Brush Palette. Check on Shape Dynamics and key in the following settings. |
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| Check on Scattering and key in the following settings. |
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| Fill the Background layer of the document with #000000. Select the Brush tool, set the foreground color to #FFFFFF and pick the brush you created earlier. Hold down your left mouse and move around the document. You will get the nice vertical lines like I’ve got here. |
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| Create a Gradient Fill adjustment layer below the vertical lines layer. Set the gradient similar to the one shown in the screenshot. |
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| Create a new layer and repeat the steps of brushing more vertical lines. Set the Blend Mode of these two layers of vertical lines to Overlay. |
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| Create a new layer above the vertical lines. This time set the foreground color to #000000. Brush some black vertical lines around the document. Set the Blend Mode of this layer to Soft Light. |
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| Create a new layer and make a thick black bar. Rename this layer to Faded Black Bar. |
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| Click on to Quick Mask Mode. Select the Gradient tool and set the gradient from black to white. Pull the gradient from top to bottom. You will get a red highlight like the one shown below. |
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| Exit Quick Mask Mode and hit Delete. There you have a nice faded black bar. |
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| Repeat the earlier steps to make a few more faded black bars around the document. |
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| Create a new layer and rename it as floor. Make a black horizontal bar. Using the Eraser tool of size around 150px, fade the left, right and bottom of the horizontal bar. |
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| Type in your preferred word with a favorite font. I am using Helvetica below. Rasterize the text, go to Edit > Transform > Perspective. Adjust the text so that it is shorter on the left. |
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| Right-click on the Text layer and select Blending Options. Check on Gradient and key in the settings shown below. |
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| Duplicate the text layer. Move the lower copy 1 pixel to the right. Repeat this for 6 times and all the 6 layers together. Rename this new merged layer and Extrude. |
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| Right-click on the Extrude layer and select Blending Options. Check on Outer Glow and Gradient. Key in the settings stated below. |
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| Download one of the glow brushes here. Create a new layer below the texts and name it as Abstract Glow. Set the foreground color to #FFFFFF and paint some abstract glowing strokes. Set the Blend Mode of this layer to Overlay. |
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| Duplicate and merge all the vertical lines and gradient. Rename this new merged layer as Reflection. Rearrange this new merged layer to be above the texts layer. Go to Edit > Transform > Perspective and adjust it to be shorter on the left. |
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| Ctrl + left-click on the text layer to load a selection around it. Select the Reflection layer and click on Create a New Layer Mask. |
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| Create a new layer and name it as Outlines. Ctrl + left-click on the text layer to load a selection around it. Go to Select > Modify > Contract. Set the contraction to 1 pixel and hit Delete. Go to Filter > Blur > Blur. Shift the outline away from its original position. |
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| Repeat the steps for a few more outlines. |
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| Create a Levels Adjustment Layer and set the values to 4, 0.83, 255. And we are done! Hope this tutorial is helpful to you. Cheers! |
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I am Johnson Koh, a graphic and web designer in Singapore. Founded 10Steps.SG with the purpose to share my experiments and interesting design news. Follow me on Twitter here. Other Design Articles You May Find Interesting
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63 Comments | Write a Comment
This tutorial is unfortunately missing a lot of steps, and some of them seems to be wrong. It looks to be good stuff though, but the steps could definately be better.
yea this looks like a cool thing to TRY to do…this tutorial is hard to follow..gotta admit. based on your instructions, the first gradient fill layer (which is different from a fill adjustment layer) does not work.. so you might want to clarify on that.
Nice…
Great help to the newbies.
Keep it up Johnson!
that’s awesome..!
THIS IS COOL Thans
Excelente, just the best way to explain it.
Amazing tutorial…I really thank you..Johnson Koh …I wishing u can always create amazing design and share for us…..
Thanks alot…bro
Nice Effect,
Start mail contact
I really appreciate your work. But as a beginner i had some trouble following different steps. I think you can improve this great tutorial with just a few additional sentences
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but nevertheless – great job!
Thomas aka Astax
Thanks for the tutoarial, I just completed roughly and it still looks good.
If you can explain better the part with the “outlines”, I load the selection of the text layer but it didn’t say which layer should be selected!
Thanks once again,
sasha
please explain how to do the mask and gradient step :S
its too good sir, can u pls let me know your personal email id.
This tutorial it’s great… I did something with one of my baby’s picture…
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Hi T-Bag, I’m sorry for any confusion. My lines is exactly like what I stated. They may look slightly thicker because some of them overlap each other.
Hmm… Hard tutorial to follow. Need to be more specific with layers and things. Tryed for 20 minutes to do this tutorial. For a start I couldn’t get the opacity/flow of the erase tool set properly so it erases the way you have in the screenshot… there was no tip to change to the preset you created befopre entering brush scattering and such. Then for some reason my lines could never come out as thick as you have there…
That’s very nice effect..
HI I really love this design you have and I am really getting into your website in a whole. But I am getting a little confused with the Quick Mask Mode and Gradient Tool part. When I delete it I get a fade from black to white. I do not get the blend you have there. I would be thankful if you could help.
Wow nice… thanks for the tutorials.. ^^
i like this tutorials.. learned a few new things
hehe… i done one…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sadhuism/3838926322/
Groovy!
very good thanks
Thank you friends
Glad you all like this tutorial. It’s an useful find for me. I am using it for a few wallpaper designs now.
Its Very very goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood!!!!
nice tutorial. going to try it tonight. Thanks!
Awesome effect, the creation of the black horizontal bar is very interesting
Very shinny effect. Grabs anyone’s attention =]
Fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wow!it’s so awesome..i need to try this one..all fingers up.lol
Cool man . . .
Beautiful result, thanks a lot!
Looking great thanks a lot !!!
amazing, i must try with my blog logo too. thanks for idea
Nicely done buddy. Keep up the goof work.
Great idea and post..
Thank you buddies. I was just experimenting around for an effect that I can do for a tutorial then found that this is pretty interesting to share
where you get all those ideas..:) simple – yet good looking tutorial!
This is sweet! One of my favorites on 10Steps! Thanks
Great post! Thanks for taking the time to put this together. That looks absolutely terrific. I don’t have time to try it out right now, but I’m gonna try sometime this week.
THIS IS COOL! Similar to my current wallpaper. CONGRATZ!
that is a very creative way to make your background
also the first time i see clear demonstration with quick mask mode
Purely my IMHO – you can not make the choice. Good luck, think about it..
on the first Gradient Fill layer,what is the blend mode of it? this tutorial is kindda hard to follow =(
very creative;
congratz…
Thanks Gurdeep. You can contact me via support@10steps.sg.
I usually reply quite fast