This tutorial will teach you how to make a neat ring of light...of what ever you think it looks like ;-P

First of all open a new document, or press Ctrl + O, and use the following settings:
Width: 400 pixels
Height: 370 pixels
Background Contents: White

at first, press D to reset your colours to white and black

Then draw a circle (hold down Shift for a pefectly round circle)



Then apply Filter > Sharpen > Sharpen...There will be a pop-up asking you whether you want to rasterize or not, choose "Yes"

The apply Filter > Distort > Polar Coordinates and choose the Polar to Rectangular option
You'll get something like this:



Then go to Image > Rotate Canvas > 90 degrees CW

The result will be the following:



Then go to Filter > Stylize > Wind, and choose From the Left

You'll get this:



The hit Ctrl + F(apply last filter) twice, to get this effect:



Then turn the canvas back to normal Image > Rotate Canvas > 90 degrees CCW



Now dublicate the layer (Ctrl + J) and aplly the following on the top layer:
Select all(Ctrl + A)

Edit > Transform > Vlip Vertical

You'll have something like this:


Next you'll have to set the Layer Mode to Difference..
You'll get this:


Then merge down (Ctrl + E), and apply the following Filter > Distort > Polar Coordinates and choose Rectangular to Polar
You'll get this:


And as a finishing touch, hit Ctrl + U for colour options, and choose Colorize, and play around to get the desired colour, I got the following



Another one finishing touch is dublicate the layer and set the mode on vivid light, works really nice if you colorized the ring to red or yellow :)

This is my result:



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Have a nice day, and some fun :)

very nice effect MetalDante :)
i like it..

i'll try to put it into a sig or header sometimes ;)

Thanks, lol

good tut ^^ eazy to follow, maybe ading at the first bit going to edit>fill>black when making the circle? also i did the tut and playyed around with it and this is what i got:

Nice I will have to try that....

That's a great tutorial, but I had a problem. When I set the layer mode to Difference, the top layer dissapeared! :blink: I tried the tutorial again and got exactly the same. Is an explanation possible for this?

my guess is that in the flip process figures ended up exactly overlapping, so it would match the white background, "disappearing"