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Bokeh Effect / Particle Effect Tutorial in Adobe Photoshop CS3 or CS4

It’s been a while since we’ve created a tutorial so here’s a quick Photoshop tutorial which you can do if you have Photoshop CS or higher to create a Bokeh/Particle effect – it’s similar to the blood effect tutorial we created some time ago.

Step 1

Open a new Photoshop document and set the background colour to black. We used a 1000px X 1000px document.
Create a new layer and from the brushes panel select a soft round brush – we used the 45 pixel brush (see below).

Step 2

In the brush editor, select ‘shape dynamics’ and set ‘size jitter’ to 100%. Next, (more…)