Bokeh effect in PSP (shining circles)

[Radim]

Hello,
anyone tried this - http://abduzeedo.com/awesome-digital-bo ... -photoshop in Paint Shop Pro?
I played with it but no success. I cant handle/to do vector brush. Here is my best...

http://lab.php5.cz/digital-bokeh-effect ... proX3a.jpg
http://lab.php5.cz/digital-bokeh-effect ... proX3b.jpg

[LeviFiction]

What changes did you make to the tutorial to get it to work for you?

Here's my attempt trying to follow their recipe as close as possible....well I did attempt a saturation filter but that may have been a mistake.



I found that if I force it to work with the AdobeRGB(1998) color space it comes out more vibrant so I didn't need the saturation or vibrancy filters.

Made this one without the saturation filter

[Radim]

Thank you. It looks good, ...very good.
How did you draw circles manually or some other way?

RE: My first attempt was - that I changed colors and created gradient of my own, so it does not worked well..


I played with it latter and I get better result like my previous, here:
http://lab.php5.cz/bokehs/bokeh3_layers_aplha-final.png

And when I played with transparency of all 3 layers and set lighter background color - #404040:
http://lab.php5.cz/bokehs/bokeh3_layers ... -final.png

but first I installed trial Photoshop CS5 to see how original file looks like:
http://lab.php5.cz/bokehs/bokehs-origin ... toshop.png
it helped me. I can see layers arrangement and see how single layer looks like.

And finaly my PSP file:
http://lab.php5.cz/bokehs/bokeh3_layers ... l.pspimage size: 1.2MB, Paint Shop Pro X3

[LeviFiction]

I used the brush variance settings so that when I clicked with the paint brush it drew the circles for me. Then I just followed the rest of the tutorial.

Very nice.

[Radim]

Thank you. I try to play more with brush. I draw circles manually ...there are only few.