Angel Effect. 

Hello again, as you already notice either from your notifier, or you just found this site and just read the title.  

So, today we're going to learn how to make our self to look like angel, or someone else. 

Step 1: Pick a background and a picture of yourself. 

Use a background picture that have a lot of open space to make it easier to manipulate the picture and the beam of lights. Also, take a picture of yourself, or a friends posing as and angel, you can use the picture at the the top for reference.

Step 2: Create the Beam of Light. 

Start by adding a new layer, then make the circular part of the beam of light by using an Elipse Tool with the Fill Pixels in the shaping tap. After you made your elipse, use the free transform tool and make the shape as you see fit, then use the Gaussian Blur effect in the Layer Tab.
To make the beam of light, it  almost the same as making the circular part earlier, make a new layer. Use a Polygonal Lasso Tool to draw a rectangle with the top part of it's smaller then the bottom, then, fill the shape with the color white by using the New Fill Layer in the Layer Tab, make the beam of blurry with Gaussian Blur effect. As you may already notice, the beam of light is solid white. To fix that, use the Blending Tab on the right side of the screen and use the blending mode 'Overylay'. To turned the background of the solid white shape into a bright beam of light.

Step 3: Create your angel. 

Make your angel by taking a photo of your self in an angel position, or download one in the internet, my recommendation is to snap your own picture, because its much easier then searching for a specific position for your photo (unless the photo you're making require a picture with the characters having wings in certain angle, a clothes that blowing at the wind, or a position you cannot do). 

After you found, or make the picture you're gonna use. Start by open the picture in Photoshop and use the Polygonal Lasso Tool to cut the picture and place it in the background with the beam of light. Cut the edge of the body very closely so their is no excess picture in the angle, if you're having trouble cutting the picture, you can zoom in on the picture, until you can cut the picture much easier.
After you encircled the picture, use the Move Tool to drag the picture to the background layer, then use free transform to make the proportion/size of the picture as you seen fit (make the angle the same size as the background/beam of light).

Step 4: Create the angel wings. 

Use a custom brush pact called; Feathered_Angel_Brushes, you can choose any angel wings, but the most important aspect is the wings (gradient) color, size, contour and shadowing to make the wings have a sense of depth. You can create this sense of depth by using Layer Style in the Layer Tab. In Layer Style, their is multiple effects that can be use together to make many kind effects, this is a few name for the effect I used to make my angel wings; Inner Shadow, Bevel and Emboss, Contour, and Texture. You can make the effects however you see fit (i.e:the distant of the shadow, angle of the shadow, Contour Curve profile, to make a shadow in a non linear way). 

Step 5: Add a ring in the beam of light. 

This is a small detail that you can add to the beam of light to give it a bit of flare. Start by using another custom brush pact name; Solid Tech Rings, you just add another layer for the rings, adjust the diameter of the brush, click the mouse once, then use free transform to adjust the size and placement of the rings, and then you're done. 

I hope this tutorial given you an idea if not, then it's okay, see next time.