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Create a star comet effect

Create a star comet effect - Photoshop Tutorial

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Create a star comet effect

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- [Instructor] Once you've created a layer-stacked star trail effect such as this image, there's another interesting effect that you can apply that will create the look of a sky filled with streaking comets. Now, obviously, this is not something that you would be doing on every star image, because let's face it, after awhile, that would start to get a bit gimmicky. But once in awhile, it is kind of fun. So I'm going to come to my Layers panel, and I'm going to scroll all the way down near the bottom, and I'm going to start with the bottom layer. Click on that, and we can see that it is set to 100% opacity. I'm going to click on the next layer up, so startrails_49, and I'm going to set that layer opacity to 95%. Now, if you have the Move tool active, or any of the selection tools, you can use a great shortcut to change the opacity of the layer. And that would be just typing the numbers on the keyboard. So if you pay…

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