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This photo manipulation tutorial will cover three things like giving importance to the main subject, creating light streaks and a motion effect. The topic for this is Slam dunk Shot.

The final image

This is the Stock photo which has been used to do this Tutorial. (Copyright belongs to respective owner)

Select Caron’s picture alone carefully by  using pen tool or lasso tool.

Copy the area and paste it as a new layer.

Change the level (Ctrl+L) as below so the subject get more highlighted.

Go to Layer blending options and Add an Outer Glow with following settings.

A  greenish-yellow color has been used here as glow #b4ff00.

Now select the whole background layer leaving the basket area.

Apply Gaussian Blur to make the background “Out of Focus”. Our aim here is to make more prominence to the player who is doing the slam dunk.

Now, The greenish – yellow glow we will hide till the last step to accurately work on the effects we are going to do.

Now go to the Caron layer and make 5 duplicates. On each layers we will be applying our settings, one by one.

Lets start from the bottom most layer. Hide other 4 layers.

Go the the Filter Menu > Click on Stylize >Select the Wind. Change the default Method settings to Blast and the direction from Left.

Keeping the same layer selected, now apply Motion Blur with following settings.

You can get it in Filter > Blur > Motion Blur.

Goto the Layer Blending Options and apply Layer Style as Gradient Overlay.

By default you will get a Spectrum gradient. Select that and click OK to apply on the layer.

With the lasso tool select the area which precedes the Player. Hit the Delete Button to remove.

Now remove from the leg area also like above . The results should be something like below.

Now bring back (click the Eye icon on the layers panel) the 2nd  layer of Caron.

Select the layer and apply transform (Ctrl+T) and rotate as shown below.

Change the layer Opacity in the Layers Panel to 50%.

Use the same as above to Rotate. Change the Opacity to 25%.

Now we are moving to next level of giving some glow to the subject.

With the pen (P) tool, draw a line spiral line like below. We will be applying strokes on that.

Make a new Brush with 4 equal ellipse. Change the Brushes settings in the menu as below.

Make a new layer . Select the Brush. Apply Brush strokes on the path .

From the Filter Menu, apply Radial Blur with the below said settings.

Lets Apply some custom gradient, as we applied on the wind layer above.

First color is #f707fe , Middle one#60fffe and the Last one#f1fc00.

To make the light streak twist along the body erase some area of the streak as shown below. Use eraser for removing the area.

From the Filters Menu > go to Render > Lens Flare.

Change the settings to Movie Prime.

Now apply the greenish- yellow glow effect.

Our final result will be like this.

Hope You enjoyed and try it.

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