How to do this lighting effect?

[19dani]

I'm looking how to obtain this lighting effect. I know about this technique (properties of layer), but in this image is so much better than others I've seen. Help, please!!

[Milk]

this is a photographic technique and it has been done with what looks like one of these [sorry i can't post links yet] google neon orange portable and check the images though]

you can tell from the faint trails to the side of the bright light which is the person making the trail being lit up by the light trail.
[you can see it best in the left of the picture in the sky]
very hard to not get that when taking this kind of photo, the way the light is brighter in some places like in the corners show where they have slowed down to get a nice curve, which is just too much effort to imitate on photoshop, no one would really go through the effort of photoshopping that kind of realism by putting imperfections in.

if you want to recreate it with a photo you need a long exposure, depending on how long you'll take. either that or a bulb setting on your camera and a external shutter [to help reduce camera shake] and you need a light. basically paint with it.

to realistically recreate in photoshop you'll need to cut around the guy and the ball and colour them as if they're being lit by the light including the reflections on the ball and then use your layer technique.

[iDad]

bet my bottom dollar photoshopping is all over that image

[Milk]

Naw i don't think so :}

[rhstanley3]

this is quite easy to do with a camera, as milk said. all you do is get a tripod, set it to have a very slow shutter speed, turn up the aperture to allow in less light, have a low ISO, then take a light stick and make patterns using the light stick. It also helps that it's not particularly bright when the photo was taken. (if you have a person in it that you want to actually appear, then make sure that they don't move, otherwise they'll probably leave trails, etc, unless that's what you want.) photoshop isn't really needed for an image like that. everything that i mentioned above is basic photography, (not using a point-and-shoot camera), so it should be easy to recreate.

[David Van Oost]

It is a technique called "Light Painting", do a Google search and you will find lot's of info on how to do this.

[Bry]

That's why we have photoshop though, so we can accomplish effects within a program instead of resorting to photography. Now this type of thing would be possible in photoshop using pen tool, gradients, blending options, and time..

[DesignMyBox]

Yes it is a photograph but I was able to get a quick draft result using Photoshop.

It's all about inner & outer glow adjustment layers actually.

[Steve]

I agree Milk, David, and rhstanley3, all that ghosting tells me this is light painting, not Photoshop.

[thephotoshopninja]

Either way, it is pretty cool and now I know about the light painting

I think I could do it in PS though.