
What we want is the Preset Details panel along the right. Most of the dialog box is taken up by a large area showing thumbnails of both your recently-opened documents and your recently-used document sizes. Don't worry, this only takes a minute.įirst, in Photoshop CC, the redesigned New Document dialog box will appear on your screen. Then, to keep this tutorial compatible with CS6 as well, we'll look at the traditional version. We'll look at the redesigned version first. If you're using Photoshop CS6, you'll see the older, traditional version. If you're using Photoshop CC as I am here (and your copy of CC is up to date), you'll see the redesigned version. In Photoshop CC 2017, Adobe completely redesigned the New Document dialog box, so which version of it you see depends on which version of Photoshop you're using. Here's the photo I'll be using for this tutorial. If you're using CS5 or earlier, you'll want to follow along with the original version of this tutorial. This version of the tutorial has been updated and expanded for Photoshop CC but is fully compatible with Photoshop CS6.

There's quite a few steps involved but they're all very simple, and as always, I'll be explaining each step as we go so everyone can follow along. Finally, we'll add a blurring effect to the sparkle trail and give it a colorful glow to help it look more magical. Then, once we've created the sparkle brush, we'll turn it into a sparkle trail using Photoshop's powerful dynamic brush options to control the behavior of the brush as we paint. In the first part of this tutorial, we'll create our sparkle brush from scratch using a few of Photoshop's built-in brushes to add a variety of sparkles to our design. I'm going to click just to the left of the girl's magic wand and then drag my brush over her head and down the right side, as if the sparkle trail was created by her waving the wand.Photoshop makes creating sparkle brushes and sparkle trails extremely easy.

The left bracket key makes the brush smaller and the right bracket key makes it larger.

You'll probably need to resize your brush first, and the easiest way to do that is by using the left and right bracket keys on your keyboard. Our "Sparkle Brush" has been created and the options have been set in the Brushes palette, so with white as our Foreground color, we can go ahead and add our sparkle trail! To do that, click either or or just beside the object that's creating the sparkle trail (the girl's magic wand in my image) and then drag out a brush stroke in the direction you want the sparkle trail to be coming from.
