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Realistic Lightning Effect |
| Start by opening an image that’s showing some sky area. |
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| Create a new layer and press Q to enable quick mask. From filter menu select render>>difference clouds. |
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| Press Ctrl+F five times to get this result. |
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| Press Q to disable quick masking. |
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| Fill the selection with blue color. |
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| From select menu click modify>>contract. |
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| Contract the selection by 2 pixel. |
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| Fill it with white color. |
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| Press Ctrl+L to open level settings window. Apply settings as shown. |
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| Press Ctrl+T and scale down vertically. |
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| Select eraser tool and remove the unwanted areas. |
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| Change the layer mode to screen. |
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| Select the image layer and press Ctrl+M to open curve window. Apply curve settings as shown. |
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March 23rd, 2006 at 12:04 am
i’m pleasantly surprised. ill have to try this when i get back to my computer ^^ Thanks
March 23rd, 2006 at 2:04 am
great=)
really nice effect, thx for sharind
March 23rd, 2006 at 3:54 am
wow. well done
March 23rd, 2006 at 5:20 am
Good Lightning, however doesn’t look quite like fork lightning or spread lightning, strange mix, but good stuff.
March 23rd, 2006 at 7:37 am
Thats not bad! cool effect, gj man!
March 23rd, 2006 at 3:37 pm
This is the best lightening tut i have ever seen all the others just seem to be really cheap but this displays the lightening affect perfectly….Good job!
March 23rd, 2006 at 3:40 pm
cool effect. very realistic.
thank U a lot
March 25th, 2006 at 9:43 pm
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March 25th, 2006 at 10:15 pm
this graphic very useful to me thank u
March 26th, 2006 at 7:10 am
Really cool effect, but I dont get it to work proberly! After the level settings window, nothing happens.. hmm
March 28th, 2006 at 4:44 am
u’re great.i’ll try this one skill.could u please send me more pic have made.u’re my inspired
April 1st, 2006 at 12:56 am
wow. it too easy
April 7th, 2006 at 3:39 am
thanks so much
hope to see more of your works
April 7th, 2006 at 9:10 am
Great article. I am just sad I dont know how to reply properly, though, since I want to show my appreciation like many other.
April 14th, 2006 at 5:36 pm
Creditable tut
May 15th, 2006 at 10:50 am
thats awesome mang thanx for the tut =P