How to create a Rising Sun effect in Photoshop
After a few e-mails asking how I created the rising sun like effect on previous posts headers. I have decided I should make a tutorial explaining how to do it. There are many ways to do this but the technique I use seems to be the quickest.
Firstly I opened a canvas up 600px by 300px, I then filled it a dark shade of orange.
Next I created a new layer by holding Option+Shift+N but you could just as easily press the new layer button shown below.
Now we have a new layer I used a brush I download from the rising sun brush-set which you can download from brusheezy for free. If you don’t know how to install brushes please check out our previous post on Installing Brushes.
Once I had the brush installed I just change the size to suit the canvas choose a lighter shade of orange and placed it in the center of the image.
Now to make sun look like it is fading out I placed a layer mask on the layer by click the button shown below.
Now I added a radial gradient by selecting the gradient tool from the sidebar and changing it from linear to radial shown below.
Now with the gradient on I held down shift clicked in the middle of the sun and drew out to create the fading gradient, which produced the image below.
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