 Photoshop - Lightning Tutorial, How to make realistic lightning in photoshop. |
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 Aug 30 2007, 10:24 PM
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Newbie [Level 1]  Group: Members Posts: 14 Joined: 29-August 07 Member No.: 49,041  |
Here is a twist on this tutorial that will give your lightning a specific direction, rather than filling the screen. You can start with a transparent/no background. Select the gradient tool and make your gradient fade from black to white. Next, create a gradient with a pretty narrow fade region so that your picture is now a gradient from left to right that almost looks like left-half-black and right-half-white. Next, render difference clouds, invert, and adjust level. You can also adjust color balance to change the color of the lightning. I'm at work right now without Photoshop, but I'll edit this post when I get home and add pictures.
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Sep 1 2007, 12:50 AM
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Member [Level 1] Group: Members Posts: 65 Joined: 25-August 07 From: Philippines Member No.: 48,803 |
nice tutorial not bad
 uhm.. but i think its not a lightning but its cool |
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Sep 1 2007, 08:10 AM
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Super Member Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 255 Joined: 21-January 07 Member No.: 37,585 |
really nice tutorial i like the outcome i have seen a lot of lighting tutorials but i like this one.
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Sep 28 2007, 09:35 PM
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Premium Member Group: Members Posts: 150 Joined: 9-April 07 From: Nebraska Member No.: 41,301 |
Sweet!
Is there some way to control how the lightning ends up, though? I think it would help a lot if you could control where the lightning goes, and still have it as realistic as that. Like if you already have an image, and you want to make it look like the person in it is getting struck by lightning. Still, pretty cool. 
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Oct 1 2007, 05:51 PM
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Newbie [Level 2] Group: Members Posts: 27 Joined: 1-October 07 Member No.: 50,944 |
QUOTE(mainvent @ Aug 4 2006, 05:04 AM)  This tutorial will teach you how to make realistic lightning. 1) Open a new file, set the canvas size to about 400 x 300 pixels. 2) Set your foreground color to white and background color to black.  3) Go to Filter > Render > Clouds. 4) Go to Filter > Render > Difference Clouds. 5) Go to Image > Adjust > Invert. 6) Go to Image > Adjust > Levels. 7) Move the arrow in the middle all the way to the right.  8) To change the color of the lightning like I did, go to Image > Adjust > Color Balance. 9) That's all there is to making realistic lightning, fairly simple yeah? This is what mine turned out.  hello i really need a real tutorial on photoshop please iam new to it and i need to use it in mt site designs. please help me i really want to be using photoshop intaed of fireworeks |
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Oct 12 2007, 06:53 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 6 Joined: 11-October 07 Member No.: 51,451 |
Thank you very much
its so butifl |
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Feb 17 2008, 03:19 PM
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Newbie [Level 2] Group: Members Posts: 36 Joined: 17-February 08 Member No.: 58,001 |
Cool effects! I really like the way it turns out.
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May 15 2008, 09:54 PM
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Newbie [Level 2] Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 36 Joined: 30-March 08 Member No.: 60,110 |
Hey got a nice one there....... Its like instant rainbow in minutes........ People always have a better way, if they want better output, but, this one looks cool and simple out there
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