A Fun CrAzY Effect YOU Can Apply to Almost Any Photo

Step 1:

Open your picture in photoshop. Create a new layer and fill the layer with a preferable background color.

Step 2:

Using the eliptical marquee tool, make large circles as shown.

Step 3:

Using the paint bucket tool, fill the circles with a different, but complementary, color.

Step 4:

Press Ctrl>D simultanously to deselect (important for desired effect). Go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur and set it somewhere around 60. and press OK.

Step 4:

Place your cut-out over the background. We are now going to apply a similar effect only with a more customized placing of the circles so that the bubble-like ‘glow balls’ excentuate the cut-out. Use a different color here also but apply the same effect. Here is my background with and without the cut-out:

Step 5:

Using the pen tool, draw out a customized path for your swirly glowing banner that will envelop your photo. This might take a bit of work but I have found that the tighter the curls are, the better, the more loops the better, and the more intricate the better. You should end up with a work path that looks something like this:

Step 6:

Press B to activate the brush tool. Open your caligriphic brushes and select the following brush (with size 10, not 911):

Go to Window > Brushes and tick Shape Dynamics. Make sure that Control is set to Pen Pressure and that Maximum Diameter is set to 40% like so:

Step 7:

Press A to use your direct select arrow. Move the arrow over the path, right click and select Stroke Path > Brush. You picture will end up looking like this:

Step 8:

Apply the following effects to your glow-banner:

Step 9:

Now duplicate the layer by right clicking on the layer in the layers palette and selecting Duplicate Layer > Ok. Once the layer has been duplicated click V to activate your Move tool and then cick ^ three times and > three times. Duplicate this new layer and move it the same amount of spaces. Continue until you have four or five lines to make up your banner. When you are done merge the glow banner layers together.

Step 10:

Select the Erase tool by pressing E and erase the areas of the banner that would be hidden if it were weaving in and out of objects in the photograph. The end product should look somethinglike this:

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