Make a Shine layer Tutorial

Intro:

In this Adobe photoshop turorial I will be showing you on how to make a shine with the gradienttool, and a round-cutout to make the shine a bit more cool looking

Step 1:

Create your preffered text, if you don't know how to make a nice looking 3d text follow this tutorial

You can call this a part 2 of the 3d text turorial, or you can say I had to put it all in the 3D text tutorial. I wanted it to be a seperate tutorial so I'll be able to point to this tutorial when I ever use a shine in my later tutorials.

Step 2:

Create a new layer with Ctrl+Shift+N, this pops up a window where you can change some stuff to the new layer, just change the name to "Shine" for now and leave everything else default.

Make a selection of the TOP layer of your TEXT, which you can do so by HOLDING Ctrl and pressing on the layer little thumbnail in the layers window.

Take the gradienttool Set your foreground to white (Hit D on your keyboard to set the foreground and background to default, then hit X to switch, making white as foreground. You can also click on the little square in the tools-window which will obviously the front one )

Change the gradient in the dropdown menu to foreground to transparant shown below:



And finally make a gradient from the top of the selection to 3/4, which will leave us the result below:

Step 3:

Take the Eliptical marqueetool and make a selection like below:



Make sure you have the shine layer selected in the layers-window, then hit delete to delete the selected part of the shine.

Which leaves us with the result:



As the final step lower the opacity to 25% in the layers window.



And there we have it, the shine!

In the next tutorial I'll be showing on how to make the star, which is handy for me to point you guys to those tutorials when I ever use them in my later tutorials. Go to the star tutorial here