Photoshop Lighting

Today's we are going to create a fantastic lighting background texture.

Step 1:
Create a new document.
Now press "D" on your keyboard to reset the foreground and background colors to black and white.

Step 2:
Go to Filter> Render> Clouds. Then Filter> Render> Difference Clouds.
Apply Difference Clouds 3 times more. Your image should look something like this image below.

Step 3:
Go Filter> Artistic> Rough Pastels and use the following setting:

Step 4:
Now go Filter> Brush Strokes> Accented Edges and use the following setting:

Step 5:
Apply Filter> Distort> Polar Coordinates and set Rectangular to Polar.

Step 6:
We are going to apply wind, go to Filter> Stylize> Wind and Wind Direction: From the Right.
Apply Wind 3 more times with same setting.



After apply wind 3 more times:

Step 7:
Go to Filter> Distort> Polar to Coordinates and set Polar to Rectangular.



After:

Step 8:
Now add some colors, go to Image> Adjustments> Hue/Saturation and use the following setting:

Step 9:
Duplicate the background layer and set the duplicated layer blending mode to 'Color Burn' for making some darkness.

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