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mainvent
post Aug 4 2006, 04:04 AM
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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.


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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.


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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.


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Slay
post Aug 9 2006, 03:17 AM
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I saw this tutorial somewhere on google when I was searching for a lightning tutorial, this isn't exactly what I wnated but it has a cool ending result and I'm sure I'll end up giving this a try.

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post Aug 9 2006, 04:46 AM
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This tutorial will teach you how to make realistic lightning


Also came across something similar and its just amazing what you can produce if you've got patience!

Although you could just as easily pick a flash design up anywhere and produce realistic effects like I did for one of my banners http://img208.imageshack.us/my.php?image=jmzbanneroq5.swf

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post Aug 13 2006, 05:35 PM
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That awesome! Mine turned out great.

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post Oct 29 2006, 07:49 PM
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it doesn't look that realistic..

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post Mar 20 2007, 03:20 AM
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cool smile.gif I shall try this!

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post May 21 2007, 03:24 PM
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this tut is all over the web, good-tutorials, has like 20 different varius of this tut lol

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post Jun 5 2007, 03:46 AM
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this is how mine turned out....Attached File  lightning.psd.jpg ( 119.49k ) Number of downloads: 5

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post Jun 5 2007, 05:19 PM
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Greetings

man nice result, not realy axacly like a lightning but its nice,
i like the way you made your tutorial,
its easy to understand for the beginners,

keep up the good work

have a nice day biggrin.gif

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post Jul 12 2007, 10:22 PM
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