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Light Graffiti in Photoshop

April 23, 2008

A few weeks ago, Paulo published a really cool post about what he called Awesome Light Graffiti Pictures. I was completely blown away by the images and the crazy things they’re capable of doing just by taking pictures with a long exposure.

I received some emails asking me how to create that effect in Photoshop, and there are already some good tutorials on it, but I decided to write one myself. I’ll write 4 tutorials explaining how to do that in: Photoshop, GIMP, Pixelmator, and Fireworks.

I’ll start with the Photoshop one, and the final result you can see below. The tutorial will be published this week I think.

Update: You can read the tutorial at PSDTUTS.COM or clicking  here

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My name is Fabio Sasso, I'm a graphic/web designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil and I'm the founder of Abduzeedo. I hope we can share lots of information, tips, and ideas through Abduzeedo. Also you can follow me on Twitter or my personal site at http://fabiosasso.com.

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32 Comments

Eric04/23/2008

I am extremely excited about this tutorial...

Xed04/23/2008

definately agree with eric!

Mihai04/23/2008

Hacking Teh Beatles :) . Nice effect!

Markus04/23/2008

4 different softwares! Why are you so Awesome!!?

nivek204/23/2008

good job !

K3v04/23/2008

The result definitely looks great! :)

Anonymous04/23/2008

Pixelmator too?!!!

Rostyslav04/23/2008

That looks really awesome. i cant wait to see the tutorial.

b4it04/23/2008

Wow! That looks great. Can't wait to see tutorial.

arnaud04/24/2008

Stop work you're crazy :)

rajaotai04/24/2008

looking forward for the tutorial~! =)

Anonymous04/24/2008

wow, cool dude..you rock.

Abay Owyeah04/24/2008

Gelo siah teh, meuni bagus pisaaan..hidup de bitels..hihi

Anonymous04/24/2008

i really glows, hoping to see the tutorials :)

Chris04/24/2008

Great idea, will be an interesting tutorial!

Chris

Gimper04/24/2008

that would be cool in GIMP

Lily04/24/2008

That ROCKS. Thank you !

MrDuckTape04/26/2008

Very cool, cant wait to see the tut!

Vanessa04/26/2008

Looking forward for the tutorial!

mo-nigga04/28/2008

dayyyymn thats down, i've stuff somewhat similar to this but your work is CRUNK! =]

Elodesign04/30/2008

Hello :) Sorry I already posted in PSDTuts and in another tut by mistake :-/ ...

I have a big issue on your tut step 6 : my Stroke Path is plain WHITE (the foreground color in the example), I don't have this kind of overlay color mode ....
I have to choose afterwards the overlay color mode for the dude layer and duplicate it to get something OK, but not as good as your render ...
YES I do have the color burn set for the dual brush, and I checked 10 times ALL the steps, so ... what do I do wrong ?
Thx to help me, by giving maybe more details ...

Anonymous05/02/2008

awesome stuff!

Anonymous05/08/2008

What happened to pixelmator? :(

glsmaster05/09/2008

I was playing around with this tutorial and I think that the result is pretty cool ;).

Bus as well as others... I got issues since you are preparing the brush. It would be nice if you post just those little but very important hints ;).

So everyone that are stuck in that part of the tut could finish it.

Thanks for everything fabio. =)
Cheers from Mexico City.

Frank09/16/2008

Hallo Fabio,

deine Arbeiten sind genial, ich habe schon einige Tuts von dir nach gearbeitet und bin immer wieder erstaunt, was man alles aus Photoshop heraus holen kann.
Mach weiter so...super.

Gruß,Frank

Rafael Sanches10/24/2008

Cara tu poderia disponibilizar esse teu trabalho final como wallpapaer.. seri bem legal,

espero que tu não se importe de um comentário em portugues mas achei que seria legal depois q descobri q era um gaucho o dono daqui...

Ryan Paraggio05/03/2009

Love the tutorial and the final product which you have created is amazing, but i am having some trouble with mine, in the ones you have made, each figure has a slightly differeny glowing appearance, going from light to dark. when following along, all of mine are the same and i cant seem to get the colors perfect either. Any tips?

zangetsuBankai08/13/2009

ahaha your outcome totally pwns the theirs

kelvinwebdesigner08/26/2009

Cant wait for it! 2 es fera cara.
Keep it up

Richie10/15/2009

this is brilliant... but.. is it legal to use the original beatles image???

just curious..

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