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  • March 10, 2014 at 1:58 pm #20404
    sade

      For jvarnes 🙂

      So.
      Requirements:
      – a Character who needs a Lighting bolt effect 🙂
      – Program what can handle layers (preferably Photoshop)
      – A lighting bolt png or brush. I used this one for my tutorial: Click here

      At first i made a character (she is a random)

      ePicGenerator2014_3_10_10_11_13.png

      Then on NEW LAYER i put some lighting, where i want. The new layer is important

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      I DODGED the lighting for making high neon effect

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      ANOTHER NEW LAYER, took a soft rounded brush (its around 100 px), SAME colour like the lighting, but SCREEN brush settings, i made some blobs, and stuff (the “shadow” part)

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      i set the layer “soft light”, and put between the character and lighting bolt.
      also made some little spot to the character’s hand, without any reason 🙂

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      The lighting effect as png (feel free to use)

      6_2014-03-10.png

      March 10, 2014 at 2:00 pm #20406
      sade

        two optional little thing:
        i duplicated the merged layers, and set the new layer soft light around 25%
        merged again, and put a “smart sharpen” to it

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        March 12, 2014 at 10:09 pm #20439
        jvarnes
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          Yea! Thank you for this great tutorial sade! 🙂

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