I tried photoshop recently

[Spenner]

It's alright, the brushes at the bottom, for ME, I think take away from the light beam, which (personally) you did the best job of, whether it was brush placement or you did it from scratch using line segments and zoom blurs or whatever.

The strokes at the bottom just don't seem correct when connecting it to the light source at the top. If one was to make it look better, I'd recommend the light showering straight down from the top of the screen, rather than towards the screen. I'm not very good with perspective lighting, so I'm not sure how the brush strokes could be fixed at the moment- playing around with different tones would do the trick, though.

Other things: the cursive around the top- a colour or font more powerful would work better, in my opinion, because right now it doesn't blend in harmony with the location it's in. Lastly, the brush behind the dark and the beams on the right (the grungy looking stuff) would look better when it's also appearing on the left as well (not in the center, JUST the edges).

Other than that, nice job, I see plenty of potential.