Fast and Easy Lighting Bolt tutorial

[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)

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

I DODGED the lighting for making high neon effect

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)

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 🙂

The lighting effect as png (feel free to use)

[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

[jvarnes]

Yea! Thank you for this great tutorial sade! 🙂

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