{"id":785,"date":"2007-08-01T20:54:11","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T04:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=785"},"modified":"2008-07-11T09:40:21","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T17:40:21","slug":"adobe-photoshop-very-simple-tutorial-fireworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=785","title":{"rendered":"Adobe Photoshop Very Simple Tutorial: Fireworks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" alt=\"Adobe Photoshop\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mhvt.net\/quicktime\/graphics\/icons\/adobe_photoshop.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\nEvery 4th of July, my wife looks forward to going to see a public display of fireworks in San Francisco.  Unfortunately, it rained all day this year and then the public display was cancelled.  I didn&#8217;t want to disappoint her.  But there was nothing I could do.  Or&#8230;  Right!  I launched Adobe Photoshop CS2.  In a matter of 5 minutes or so, I developed fireworks in the nightly sky.<\/p>\n<p>The following tutorial shows steps to create a fireworks display in the sky.  The photo used in this tutorial comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/pdphoto.org\/PictureDetail.php?mat=pdef&#038;pg=8368\">PD Photo<\/a>.  <!--more--><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Make a selection with <strong>Ellipse Marquee Tool<\/strong>.  It will be your choice to apply several pixels of <strong>Feather<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Choose two colors for foreground and background.  While the selection is active, choose <strong>Filter<\/strong> > <strong>Render<\/strong> > <strong>Clouds<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>We want some minute pixels of space.  So choose <strong>Filter<\/strong> > <strong>Noise<\/strong> > <strong>Add Noise<\/strong>.  Add noise with Uniform Distribution.<\/li>\n<li>You can now release the selection.  Next, we need to enlarge each pixel with a color.  So choose <strong>Filter<\/strong> > <strong>Pixelate<\/strong> > <strong>Crystallize<\/strong>.  Adjust the cell size slider all the way to the left.<\/li>\n<li>Another important step is to cast Radial Blur.<\/li>\n<li>Okay.  Finally, Use <strong>Levels<\/strong> to adjust bright and dark pixels and then change the blend mode to get rid of extreme dark pixels.  Which mode to use depends on your final work.  Try using <strong>Color Dodge<\/strong>, <strong>Linear Dodge<\/strong> or <strong>Hard Light<\/strong>.  Furthermore, you also want to use <strong>Hue\/Saturation<\/strong> to change colors and increase saturation a little bit.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<table width=\"440\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"mac\/tutorials\/photoshop_fireworks\/photoshop_fireworks_01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/tutorials\/photoshop_fireworks\/photoshop_fireworks_01.jpg\" \"140\" height=\"105\" alt=\"Adobe Photoshop tutorial\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"mac\/tutorials\/photoshop_fireworks\/photoshop_fireworks_02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/tutorials\/photoshop_fireworks\/photoshop_fireworks_02.jpg\" width=\"140\" height=\"105\" alt=\"Adobe Photoshop tutorial\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"mac\/tutorials\/photoshop_fireworks\/photoshop_fireworks_03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/tutorials\/photoshop_fireworks\/photoshop_fireworks_03.jpg\" width=\"140\" height=\"105\" alt=\"Adobe Photoshop tutorial\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table width=\"293\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"mac\/tutorials\/photoshop_fireworks\/photoshop_fireworks_04.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/tutorials\/photoshop_fireworks\/photoshop_fireworks_04.jpg\" \"140\" height=\"105\" alt=\"Adobe Photoshop tutorial\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"mac\/tutorials\/photoshop_fireworks\/photoshop_fireworks_05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/tutorials\/photoshop_fireworks\/photoshop_fireworks_05.jpg\" width=\"140\" height=\"105\" alt=\"Adobe Photoshop tutorial\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<u>Video tutorial with no audio commentary<\/u><\/p>\n<table width=\"440\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"200\"><a href=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"machouse\/video_tutorials_no_visitors.gif\" alt=\"Mac video tutorials\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td width=\"200\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhvt.net\/quicktime\/eng\/vtc\/photoshop_illustrator\/photoshop_cd_sample_fireworks.php\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"machouse\/video_tutorials_members.gif\" alt=\"Mac video tutorials\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Please read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhvt.net\/quicktime\/eng\/terms_guests.php\">Terms of Use for Guests<\/a> before watching any of the video tutorials.<br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br>Photoshop CS2 is a product of Adobe Systems Incorporated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every 4th of July, my wife looks forward to going to see a public display of fireworks in San Francisco. Unfortunately, it rained all day this year and then the public display was cancelled. I didn&#8217;t want to disappoint her. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=785\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":342,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}