Now, remember the angle you used for aligning the rays shape? This time repeat this procedure with the twirly shape, again pressing Ctrl + T, Distort and creating an angle that will blend and merge nicely with the rays.

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If you are using this shape, I’d suggest to add another one horizontally transformed to add more symmetry and proportion to the shape image. After you have done with that, rasterize both twirly shapes layers and using the eraser tool remove the shape from girl’s body surface, this will create the illusion that the shape is “behind” her, however, as I did — I suggest o leave one of the lines in the shape over the girl’s image, this will give the illustration a better look, more professional and deep.

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Step 4.

Add outer glow to your twirls.

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Step 5.

Make a new layer on top of the others and using a big, soft brush make a few lines in different colours, as I did here:

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Don’t worry if it does not look good as you will organize it very easily. Load a selection of the twirly shapes by holding the Ctrl key and pressing on the shapes layer. Now, go to Select >> Inverse. Press “Delete” on your keyboard to leave the colors only on the shapes.

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Set the blending options of the colorful layer to Vivid. Yes, we don’t want this rainbow aura to be visible too much.

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