How To: Glow / Long Exposure

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How can you make [URL=“http://abduzeedo.com/awesome-light-graffiti-pictures”]this

I have heard its a photographer trick. Other than glow. Can you do this in CS3? I really want to do something with one or two stock files.

Think they are called glow rays, also seen designers make shoulders slowy break out and look like dots.

Thanks for any help

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you can fake something in photoshop but it’s not going to look as good as a long-exposure photo.

Alternatively, you can use After Effects and 32bit files with motion blur to create light trails. Or use a ‘fake’ effect such as trapcode stroke (for After Effects)

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What camera? Digital?

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Probably a digital with manual settings (something like a canon Digital Rebel). This way you could set what you need to set to create the long exposure shot. (i wouldn’t know what the settings are, but im sure the shutter speed was set reeeaaaalllly slow).

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There’s some tutorials on his site. First one is PS and the second is with a camera.

  1. http://abduzeedo.com/light-graffiti-photoshop
  2. http://abduzeedo.com/learning-light-painting