Create a bulb and putting it up together

Make a marquee selection that will look like a light bulb and realign/resize the selection by going to Select > Transform Selection.



Fill with a yellow color (doesn’t matter what hue, we’re going to be changing all the colors).



Create a new layer where the screenshot shows you to make it.



Marquee selection like such…



Fill with black (this color DOES matter, unlike the other colors.



Deselect the selection (“Ctrl + D�) and then Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur. I chose 3.5 px for the blur radius.



Lower the opacity to 80% and then with the shadow layer still selected, Ctrl + Click the main lamp layer, then Shift + Ctrl + Click on the gray layer. Ctrl + Shift + I to invert the selection and then press “Del�.

Step 7. Select the lamp main layer and then Ctrl + Click it. Select the following colors (or something close to it).



Gradient settings:





With the selection still selected, Filter > Noise > Add Noise.





Create a new layer above the lamp main layer and now with a white brush…













Now create a new layer and then Ctrl + Click on the lamp main layer.



Get the following gradient settings:





Using the Free Transform Tool, make the reflection proportionally smaller by holding down “Shift�.



Then, move it back to the center or wherever you see fit.



Step 8. Time to fix up the light bulb. Select the light bulb layer and then Ctrl + Click it. Get something similar to these 2 colors:



And the following gradient settings:






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