Light effects seem to be the easiest way to achieve really professional, awesome results in your work. Perhaps this is why they’ve gotten so popular, but whatever the reason, everyone seems to have experimented with light effects at some point. Luckily for those looking to hone their skills or learn something new, there are a ton of light effects tutorials out there. However, not all are that good. I’ve decided to gather an ULTIMATE list of every great light effect tutorial that I could find. Believe you me, some of these were not easy to come by, and took some serious research. You may have seen a few of these before (several come from the better known Photoshop sites), but hopefully there is enough unseen material here to keep you inspired for quite a while. Also some tutorials aren’t strictly just a lighting effect, but enough of the tutorial is comprised of lighting effects that it made it onto the list.

1. Flying Girl in Photoshop

2. Plasma in the Lake

3. 7 Steps Colored Lights Header

4. Mysterious Lighting

5. Give Your Photos Awesome Lighting in Just 10 Steps

6. Beijing Logo Light Painting

7. Fantasy Light Effects in Photoshop

8. Light & Glow Effect

9. Space Lighting Effect in 10 Steps

10. MSNBC Style Effect

11. The Japanese Style Wallpaper

12. Magic Lighting Effect

13. Create a Space Explosion From Scratch in Photoshop

14. Beautiful Lighting Effect

15. Design a Vista Styled Wallpaper

16. Create a Refreshing Drinks Ad

17. Create a Layered Glowing Text Effect

18. Glow Lighting and Pen Tool Introduction

19. Create a Wavy Blackberry Style Wallpaper

20. Create an Amazing Ad

21. Adding Flames and Effects to Make an Image with Impact

22. Seriously Cool Photoshop Explosion Effect

23. Advanced Space Stars

24. How to Break Sunlight Through the Clouds

25. Design a Coldplay Inspired Portrait

26. A Cool Lighting Effect in Photoshop

27. Create a Simple Light Stripes Effect

28. Super Slick Dusky Lighting Effect

29. The Dark Knight Grunge Wallpaper

30. Advanced Glow Effects

31. Create a 3d Glossy Box Logo

32. Create a Magical Image Using Photo Manipulation

33. Colorful Glowing Text Effect

34. Fiery Photoshop Space Explosion

35. Mysterious Lighting Effect

36. Our Glow Tutorial

37. Create a Glowing Light Painting Effect

38. Easily Create a Unique Website Header


39. Window Blinds


40. The Spotlight is Here


41. Abstract Dust and Specks


42. Slow Shutter Text Effect


43. Creating the Windows Vista Lighting Effect


44. Creating Smokey Dancer Using Lighting/Texturing Effects


45. Glow Sparks


46. Replicate Justin Timberlake’s LoveStoned Music Video


47. Fairy Glow Lighting


48. Creating a Rocking Silhouette in Photoshop


49. Scanline Text


50. Crazy Cool Vectors in Illustrator and Photoshop


51. Luminescent Lines


52. Energize Your Graphics With Abstract Energy Lines


53. Electrifying Energy Beams


54. Amazing Photoshop Lighting Effect


55. Glowing Woman Silhouette


56. Mysterious Moonlit Landscape


57. How to Make Great Fireworks in Photoshop


58. Super Fast Speed Lighting Effect


59. Lighting Effects in Photoshop


60. Beautiful Lighting FX


61. Make an Apply Coldplay Style Ad in Photoshop


62. Really Cool Eclipse Effect


63. Lighting Effects


64. Speeding Car Lighting Effect


65. Create a Magic Crystal Ball


66. Light Effects 1


67. Create a Slick Supernatural Text Effect


68. Adding Light Streaks to a Photo


69. Light in The Forest Effect


70. Create Rainbox Logos with Warped Grids

71. Quickly Build a Background of Colored Bars

72. How to Create Brilliant Light Streaks in Photoshop

73. Sparkling Hot Girl


74. Adding Sunlight to a Photo


75. How to Create Intense Light Streaks in Photoshop