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A very easy tutorial on how to create those well-known lights you see in the disco. Learn how to make these spotlights and create your own party ;)

3. For this effect, we're going to use a very soft, narrow beam, so go under the Style pop-up menu at the top of the dialog (this is where the presets are) and choose Flashlight.

A very easy tutorial on how to create those well-known lights you see in the disco. Learn how to make these spotlights and create your own party ;) Learn how to create the infamous disco-lights!

And finally we have our result, a soft spotlight on our car. Compare this to the starting image to see the difference. You can lower the opacity of the adjustment layer if you desire to tone down the effect a little. You can use this technique on all kinds of photos including people. This is a great way to draw attention to certain areas of images and put things under the err� spotlight.

We're suckers for awesome illustration. So we dig U.K. artist Adrian Johnson, whose work spans anything from editorial stuff for iconic publications like The Guardian, GQ and The Monocle, to advertising for big-timers like Vodafone and Canon, to animation for a number of top ad agencies, plus a ton of other killer artwork for clients like Scion, Computer Arts and 2K by Gingham.

Start with a large #420000 colored canvas, in your layers window make a new layer set and name it Spotlight Special Effect. Choose your rounded rectangle tool with a 20 px radius, in a new layer draw a 40 x 23 pixels, white rounded rectangle. Then go to Edit > Transform > Rotate as shown below.

This tutorial will teach you how to place a spotlight over a specific portion of a photograph. In addition this tutorial will also enable you to make your pictures more appealing by adding some extra depth using some Photoshop effects.

In this tutorial we will use a technique that will enable our objects to be in the spotlight. Bright shiny lights that effectively bring things alive. The idea came from a wonderful song by Lupe Fiasco called Superstar! Lets begin, our first step as always is to get our stage setup. I used a three color gradient on mine faded under a 25% opacity. Grab mine to make things easier and begin!

In this fairly simple tutorial we will learn how to create spotlight effect with adobe photoshop, and how to apply them to objects and backgrounds.

You can lower the opacity of the adjustment layer if you desire to tone down the effect a little. You can use this technique on all kinds of photos including people. This is a great way to draw attention to certain areas of images and put things under the error spotlight.

Press enter/return to apply the transformation to the selection

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