Photoshop Light Painting Experiment

I did this light painting experiment using Adobe Photoshop.

Steps to creating a light painting in Photoshop:

1. Create a new document and open up a new picture in Adobe Photoshop.
2. Create a new layer and select the free form pen tool to draw on the picture.
3. Select the brush tool, white colour, change the pressure to pen pressure using the brush pre-set menu. 
4. Go to the path pallet, select stroke path and choose your brush tool.
5. Select the blending mode and alter the inner and outer lines by changing the colour, noise and size of each. 
6. Create a new layer and using the free form pen, create more lines over the ones already there. 
7. Select the path palet, and click on the same brush tool previously used. 
8. Add the gaussian blur effect and lower the opacity of the line. 
9. Create another new layer, and change the brush pre-sets in the brush tool option. 
10. Change the spacing of the brush tool to then use to add 'sparkles' to the picture.  

I undertook this experimentation to add to the range of ideas I could present for my final project, it has also allowed me to gain more knowledge on the use of photoshop and what effects I can create using the software.