Sparkle textures in photoshop cs4

[fixed_mind]

So, I'm beginning to try and create my own textures. I'd love to know how to make beautiful sparkly textures like these two examples found through Google:

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[tattooedraven]

Whether this helps you or not, I don't know. But from what I can see of your second light texture, it looks to me like an image of real fiber optic lights that have been darkened and slightly blurred.

[fixed_mind]

It actually did help, it gave me an idea to use motion blur. So thank you!

[sidhex3]

the technique is the same...just use select a hard round brush instead of the soft round or star shapes. you can achieve various levels of blurriness by using multiple layers and setting a different level of gaussian blur and/or outer glow to each.

[fixed_mind]

Ah, that's where I went wrong. I've been playing around with soft round shapes and opacity, never tried hard brush and blur/glow. Thanks a lot, now I got something close to what I aimed at!

[chrkya_ler]

I agree with the poster that said the second looks like an edited image of fiber optics. The first has a certain bokek feel too it. But perhaps for the second version, if one of the lower layers were set to some sort of angular blur you could recreate the effect of the second one. It would certainly be something worth playing around with.

The first link in this first link (lord what a bad sentence) I've used.
http://www.photoshopwebsite.com/photoshop-tutorials/15-bokeh-effects-photoshop-tutorials-100bokeh-brushes-for-free-download/

[fixed_mind]

Thank you! That link was very useful!

[chrkya_ler]

You're very welcome. PS is one of my favorite hobbies and there are never enough tutorials around when I get something in mind. :) Glad to be able to help.

[shalowater]

i have a photoshop 8 and i cant seem to find "shape dyamics" so that i can edit my brushes or make the bokeh effect. does photoshop 8 have this or not? if not is there any way i can do the bokeh or sparkle effect in order to make light textures in those styles.