aura effect

I suggest that you check out the posts from Samilat04. The artwork and questions you are both posting is almost identical. It is almost like you are both taking the same class.

I spent a lot of time on this thread explaining a lot of techniques in detail. Go there and see if your questions are answered.

Nothing all too fancy. Could be as simple as applying a heavy glow, setting its composite mode to "Under Original" and frizzling it up with a dose of the Roughen Edges effect. Other techniques could of course also be used like duplicating the source, expanding its edges and processing them similarly.

Mylenium