15 Photoshop Resources to Create Intense Light Effects
Intense light effects are one of the key elements of many styles of digital art. In this post I’ll be rounding up my best picks of Photoshop brushes and resources to add cool light streaks, bright lens flares, detailed fractal swirls and smooth light streams to your artwork. As always these resources have been downloaded and tested to make sure they’re good enough quality and resolution for use in your design projects.
15 High-Res Lens Flare Textures
1200x900px Light Textures
Light Effect Brushes + Textures Vol 1
Six Free High-Res Glowing Light Stream Images
Lighting Effects Pack
10 Free Light Wisp Images
Fractal Brushes
Abstract Light Brushes
Fractal Chaos Brushes
Abstract Light Streak Brushes
High Quality Optical Flares Stock
Star Brushset
10 Large Light Textures
Fireworks Light Textures
Photoshop Fractal Brushes
An awesome collection!
Do you download and store all these Or simply bookmark for future reference please? I’ve started downloading useful vectors, images etc but the storage size needed is reaching large volumes now. Wondered what solutions and recommendations you could offer please? Also, how to you avoid collecting too many, if you do store a local copy? (You could potentially end up with TOO many useful images for example).
This is another +1 for having a blog. I create these roundup posts both to share the resources with others and save them for future reference for myself.
Thanks Chris – Sounds like a good plan. Already bookmark your site anyway, for it’s useful information and resources, but might integrate the same idea in the future.
Hey, Chris!
Great collection as always! Good job, keep it up!
Cheers!
I don’t have any resources for light effects, so these are perfect! You’re awesome at finding resources! :P
Thanks, Chris!
nices resources !
Lights are great for final touch in typography or for any PSD layout. I didn’t have any problem in downloading them thanks
Hi Chris,
Wow thanks for sharing this high quality collection of photoshop lighting effects. Its nice to have access to resources such as these which are both free and of high resolution. Some of the fractal light style brushes are immense. Although I don’t currently have the need to use spectacular lighting effects like these, I’m sure this resource will come in hand in the future. Thanks again for sharing!
Hello Chris,
Your work simply am very informative and artistic. I love the way you differentiate each stroke.
Beautiful! Great blog!
Love the fireworks one!!
Beutiful selection. Thanks for share it!
These rock! Another awesome round-up. Thanks heaps :)
very nice collection, can’t wait till you make some more
fractal brushes are so lovely I am going to use them :)
great collection, thank you
Amazing collection, Thanks for sharing
Wow, more of this! I think, written words, made by lighting effects, also look pretty cool.
All these resources are the best to create different types of lighting effects which gives very attractive look the web page. Including all sources I liked especially source of the Photoshop factal brushes.
good quality images
Very well pictures. I like all pictures.
Hi,
great collection and thanks for this ressources.
Wow! Cool pictures!