Picture 1. In this tutorial we are going to create the picture above using several different Photoshop effects.

In this Photoshop effect tutorial I cover the creation of several different light and glow effects in Photoshop. In this tutorial we are going to recreate picture 1. The effects in picture 1 consist of smoke, light trails, sparkles, stars and bokeh effects. Luckily it's pretty simple to create each of these effects in Photoshop.

This is an article about Photoshop HDR imaging. The following HDR workflow is explained in detail:

• Merging photos to an HDR image
• Processing the HDR image
• Tone Mapping

In picture 1 you see the final result. Click on the image to see a larger version at the bottom of this page.

Picture 1. The final result of Photoshop HDR imaging.