How to add beams of sun light through trees with photoshop
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In this Photoshop Effects tutorial, we're going to learn how to add beams
of sunlight through trees to make an image look more interesting
Here's the image I'll be starting with in this 
Photoshop tutorial
first go to background layer Channels palette
the first thing we need to do is find out which of three color
channels contains the highest amount of contrast.
among red, green and blue, it will be the Blue channel 
with the highest contrast.
now load the blue channel as selection. to do that Hold down your Ctrl (Win)
Command (Mac) key and click directly on the channel in the Channels palette
Switch over to your Layers panel and click on the New Layer icon
at the bottom to add a new blank layer
fill the selection with brighter sun color in the image.
 
use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Backspace (Win) / Command+Delete (Mac)
to fill the selection on the new layer
CTRL + D to deselect the selection
covert layer to smart object and name the layer 
SUNRAYS
with sunrays layer selected go to Filter menu, 
choose Blur, and then choose Radial Blur.
Click in the general spot where you want the 
sunbeams to be coming from.
I want my sunrays to start from approximately where 
the sun appear in the image
keep amount at maximum. Select Zoom for the Blur Method
set the Quality option to good and click ok
Change the layer blend mode to color dodge. need to experiment a little
here because overlay and hard light also works in some cases.
To make our sunbeams stand out a bit more, let's 
add a glow to them
choose Outer Glow from the list of layer styles
i need to increase the contrast even further by making the dark areas
darken, and we can do that easily with levels adjustment layer.
edges of the beams look sharp and i want to soften 
them with gaussian blur filter
keep radius in very small pixel and click ok
all filters and styles applied are editable so we can 
tweek it any time
Here is before and after results
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