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this—any brush that has a bunch of spots or shapes will pretty much work).

Step Four:
Next, go under the Filter menu, under Blur, and choose Radial Blur. When the dialog appears, set your Amount really high (I used 100); for Blur Method,
choose Zoom; and for Quality, choose Best. Now, take your cursor, click it in the middle of the zoom Blur Center, and drag the center up toward the top of
that little preview square (as shown here). This puts the center of the blur up high and sends most of the zoom effect aiming down, which it what we want
—beaming from up high. Click OK to apply the Radial Blur zoom to your white spots layer. Note: It can take a while for this particular filter to do its
thing, so be patient. If you’re running this on a 16-bit version of your photo, this wouldn’t be a bad time to grab a cup of coffee. Maybe a sandwich, too.
Have you done your tax return yet? You’ve got time.

Step Five:
This creates our initial beams, and you’re probably thinking, “Scott, this doesn’t look all that awesome,” and I’d agree, but only because we’re not done
yet. We’ve got to make the beams brighter, then position them in the right place, and then remove all the leftover stuff we don’t want visible in our image.
So, think of this is as the first draft version. It’ll get better.