I welcome you into part 2 of making a Abstract painting in Photoshop tutorial. I've finished in making shape and making it our background element.

Now we are going to make some foreground elements and giving some king of mood to out picture so let's get going.

I'm just doing some details to my picture and refining the edges and shapes. I'm more visual in this case. You have to catch the moment when you like the picture. You must be ready to change everything until you gain good results.

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Link the pattern layers, we have 2 of them, and merge them together.

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Here I'm just transforming the element a little bit.

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Now some layer styles.

Drop shadow is standard.

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I'm using red as the base color of the glow.

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Satin has Black color and set to multiply.

All the rest styles have quite standard settings.

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And here is our result.

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