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Jul 05, 2013 11:44 | #1

I have a lovely night shot of Blackpool Tower all lit up with multicoloured lights. I'd love an edit where the lights streak outward and upwards at an angle like you see in magazines. How would I do this please? It was shot in Jpeg and will be edited in PSE 10.
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Jul 05, 2013 11:53 | #2

It would help if you post the image up so that we can better imagine what you want to achieve.

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Jul 05, 2013 12:27 | #3

Do you mean like this, this is an in camera effect called a zoomburst (if I remember correctly) 1.6 sec f8 iso 100
put the camera on a tripod, set a long(ish) shutter speed and focus on your subject at either the long end of the zoom or the wide end (you will have to experiment because i can't remember). Press the shutter button and whilst the shutter is open rack the zoom to the other end (either wide to tele or tele to wide). Simples

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Jul 05, 2013 16:15 | #4

That's like it. I've seen lots of magazine covers where it's done PP like streaks for agazines & ads.

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Jul 05, 2013 16:31 | #5

That effect is achieved in camera though and not in PP.

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Jul 05, 2013 16:32 | #6

This has come up occasionally, but I don't have the pp expertise to advise you.

I did a quick forum search on "light streaks" and here is a short thread on "sun glare" that has one thing you can try:

https://photography-on-the.net …9&highlight=light+streaks

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Jul 05, 2013 18:01 | #7

In photoshop, Use Filter > Blur > Radial Blur, in "Zoom" mode. This works best if you use a 32 bit per channel image with HDR data, as the light streaks that a created are more realistic. It will, however, work with LDR data a well.

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Jul 06, 2013 05:59 | #8

IMG NOTICE: [NOT AN IMAGE URL, NOT RENDERED INLINE]

Thanks for the advice guys. Any other tips are appreciated.
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Jul 06, 2013 06:03 | #9

Here's the Photo.

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Jul 06, 2013 06:05 | #10

Can anyone say why my upload isn't showing? Thanks.

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Jul 06, 2013 14:40 | #11

Hope this works.

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Jul 07, 2013 13:10 | #12

Here is the Blur > Radial Blur at the max radius setting of 100 in PS.

To get the streaks, you need to take the original image (8 bit JPEG) and convert it to 32 bit. Then duplicate the layer, set the duplicate to Linear Dodge (add) blend mode and duplicate that a couple more times- flatten that version. Now the lights are much brighter than the background and you can do the radial blur.

Once you have the blurred layer, you can blend that back into the original (in Lighten mode, or Linear Dodge (add) mode).

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Jul 18, 2013 18:09 | #13

Brilliant. Thank you ever so much Kirk. I'll try it. Love your version.

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