Enhance The Rays Of Light In Your Photo

Step 1 - Open your photo and save it as a new image to preserve your original.

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Before The Ray Of Light Effect

Step 2 - Open your new photo and click on Filter>Blur>Radial Blur and set amount to 25, select Zoom and set Quality to best. Move your mouse over the white Blur Center to set the direction of your blur. If you want a more dramatic effect, set your Radial Blur to 50 or something which looks best for your photo.

Step 3 - Next, go to your Layer and select Lighten and set your Opacity at 75. You can set Opacity at what level looks best for your photo.

Step 4 - Afterwards, select the Eraser Tool and erase the sections where you don't want the Ray Of Light effect on your photo. In my example below, I erased the upper right hand side.

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After The Ray Of Light Effect

Step 5 - Now you can save the image.

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Repair Photo Colors By Adjusting Levels

Step 1 - Open your photo and save it as a new image to preserve your original.

Step 2 - Open your new photo and grab your Magnetic Lasso Tool from your left tool bar. When you right click on the Lasso tool, you have options to choose this.

Magnetic Lasso Tool Image

Step 3 - In this example, we grab everything using the Magnetic Lasso except the tree.

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Step 4 - Next, after you Lasso it, you want to click Image>Adjustments>Levels

Step 5 - Make sure your channel is set to RGB

Step 6 - I set the input levels to 0, 0.32, 255 in this example.

Step 7 - I set the output levels to 0, 255 in this example.

Step 8 - Now you can save the image. Since you used the Magnetic Lasso, only what you lassoed will be changed when you make your adjustmensts.

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