This is supposed to be an eye-catching style, so it’s okay to exaggerate the effect a bit. Now we can easily clean up the Layer Mask by using the Brush Tool to paint with black over any areas that we don’t want the glitter texture to appear (like on the subject’s skin or in the background). Now the texture is only visible within the areas we selected! Once the rough selection has been made, select the glitter texture layer and click on the Layer Mask icon near the bottom right of the screen. And don’t worry about make a precise selection, once we convert the selection to a Layer Mask, it’s extremely easy to clean it up. We chose to start with the white areas of each shirt. You can hold SHIFT to add different areas of a photo to the same selection.

Use the Lasso Tool to make a rough selection around the clothing you want to make sparkle. This effect is popular with clothing, so let’s focus on that with our example image. The key to this effect is choosing different objects in a photo, and applying a different glitter texture to each.

Select the visible texture and set the Blending Mode to Screen. We’ve included 4 textures, but feel free to find and use your own!Ĭhoose the first texture you want to apply, and hide the rest.

This will add the textures to the Layer Stack above the background photo. Navigate to the folder that contains the glitter textures you want to use, select them, and hit Place. Open the File menu and select Place Linked. It’s time to get into the sparkling specifics of this effect! Open up the image that you want to apply the glitter effect to in Photoshop. This particular effect has been all the rage on social media lately, so we figured it’s a good time to show you how easy it is to create!Īll you’ll need is a handful of sparkling textures (we’ve included 4, and you can find more on free stock image websites like Pexels and Unsplash), and some commonly used Photoshop tools.

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