This was an image I took today of myself, I just want to show what I might do with my double page article image. I positioned my hands high and open so I could add good effects to the hands (energy blasts).

I then selected the image I wanted from the background.

I cut the image

Pasted it into a new layer

I started erasing the background parts

This is close up of when I was erasing the background

This was it when I finally erased the background

I added a new layer for the background

I painted it black with the paint tool

I added ‘noise’ to create a star effect

I then added a gaussian blur

I then went to filter, other, threshold to make the white spots stand out

more

I added more gaussian blur to make the stars look realistic

I went to offset

The ‘offset’ tool made the stars duplicate and it looked more vibrant

This was the final background image

I Indicated layer visibility of the first layer (the one of me)

I added glow balls with the brush tool, I had the brush as a soft brush

to create realistic energy ball

I then went to filter, lighting effects

I added a ‘lens flare’ to look as if the balls were generating out of my

hands

I then wanted to colour of the balls to be a blue or something vibrant,

so I added a photo filter

This was it after I added a blue photo filter, it looked very realistic

I added a ‘ellipse’ shape with the ellipse tool

I then went to filter, wave to add a wave to the ‘ellipse’; it looked as if

the balls were connected

This was the final image, I was very pleased with it. This is the sort of effect I want on my double

page article image, so sort of light coming out of the models hands.