Light Graffiti in Photoshop

A few weeks ago, Paulo published a really cool post about what he called Awesome Light Graffiti Pictures. I was completely blown away by the images and the crazy things they’re capable of doing just by taking pictures with a long exposure.

I received some emails asking me how to create that effect in Photoshop, and there are already some good tutorials on it, but I decided to write one myself. I’ll write 4 tutorials explaining how to do that in: Photoshop, GIMP, Pixelmator, and Fireworks.

I’ll start with the Photoshop one, and the final result you can see below. The tutorial will be published this week I think.

Update: You can read the tutorial at PSDTUTS.COM or clicking  here

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My name is Fabio Sasso, I'm a graphic/web designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil and I'm the founder of Abduzeedo. I hope we can share lots of information, tips, and ideas through abduzeedo.

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I was playing around with this tutorial and I think that the result is pretty cool ;).

Bus as well as others... I got issues since you are preparing the brush. It would be nice if you post just those little but very important hints ;).

So everyone that are stuck in that part of the tut could finish it.

Thanks for everything fabio. =)
Cheers from Mexico City.

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glsmaster (not verified) 05/09/2008

What happened to pixelmator? :(

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Anonymous (not verified) 05/08/2008

awesome stuff!

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Anonymous (not verified) 05/02/2008

Hello :) Sorry I already posted in PSDTuts and in another tut by mistake :-/ ...

I have a big issue on your tut step 6 : my Stroke Path is plain WHITE (the foreground color in the example), I don't have this kind of overlay color mode ....
I have to choose afterwards the overlay color mode for the dude layer and duplicate it to get something OK, but not as good as your render ...
YES I do have the color burn set for the dual brush, and I checked 10 times ALL the steps, so ... what do I do wrong ?
Thx to help me, by giving maybe more details ...

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Elodesign (not verified) 04/30/2008

dayyyymn thats down, i've stuff somewhat similar to this but your work is CRUNK! =]

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mo-nigga (not verified) 04/28/2008

Looking forward for the tutorial!

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Vanessa (not verified) 04/26/2008

Very cool, cant wait to see the tut!

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MrDuckTape (not verified) 04/26/2008

That ROCKS. Thank you !

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Lily (not verified) 04/24/2008

that would be cool in GIMP

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Gimper (not verified) 04/24/2008

Great idea, will be an interesting tutorial!

Chris

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Chris (not verified) 04/24/2008

i really glows, hoping to see the tutorials :)

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Anonymous (not verified) 04/24/2008

Gelo siah teh, meuni bagus pisaaan..hidup de bitels..hihi

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Abay Owyeah (not verified) 04/24/2008

wow, cool dude..you rock.

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Anonymous (not verified) 04/24/2008

looking forward for the tutorial~! =)

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rajaotai (not verified) 04/24/2008

Stop work you're crazy :)

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arnaud (not verified) 04/24/2008

Wow! That looks great. Can't wait to see tutorial.

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b4it (not verified) 04/23/2008

That looks really awesome. i cant wait to see the tutorial.

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Rostyslav (not verified) 04/23/2008

Pixelmator too?!!!

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Anonymous (not verified) 04/23/2008

The result definitely looks great! :)

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K3v (not verified) 04/23/2008

good job !

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nivek2 (not verified) 04/23/2008

4 different softwares! Why are you so Awesome!!?

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Markus (not verified) 04/23/2008

Hacking Teh Beatles :) . Nice effect!

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Mihai (not verified) 04/23/2008

definately agree with eric!

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Xed (not verified) 04/23/2008

I am extremely excited about this tutorial...

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Eric (not verified) 04/23/2008

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