Show your lightning techniques!

[RamZnation]

not the greatest, but here you go.


Same method as the lightsaber, but I drew a bunch of lines instead of one with the pen tool and added the glow. I did the same with the effect around the saber blade with a different shade of Blue (Cyan to be exact). It didn't look right so I played around with the size and I think it messed up the effect. You can tell where that went wrong with the Emperor's left hand (by looking at his fingers). I also think I went wrong by changeing it from screen to multiply since I wanted the glow to be a little more transparent.

[Darth Jordan]

ramznation said:

not the greatest, but here you go.


Same method as the lightsaber, but I drew a bunch of lines instead of one with the pen tool and added the glow. I did the same with the effect around the saber blade with a different shade of Blue (Cyan to be exact). It didn't look right so I played around with the size and I think it messed up the effect. You can tell where that went wrong with the Emperor's left hand (by looking at his fingers). I also think I went wrong by changeing it from screen to multiply since I wanted the glow to be a little more transparent.

Hah, that's a sweet pic! The lightning looks fine IMO for the transparentness!

[doomwolf86]

darthjordan said:

Oh yeah, the second most wanted Star Wars effect out there.. Force Lightning!! I'm curious to see how many different methods there are used by members of this forum. Sooo go digging into your pictures and find your lightning pics! Be sure to put in your post what method you use or if you made it just by experimentation! ;D

Here's mine... I have Paintshop Pro 9, so there's no tutorials for force lightning that I know of. So I had to make mine from scratch. I'm actually quite pleased with my results.. ;D

Here's a before and after set of my first lightning pic and my second lightning pic..

Before..

After.. (It is a bit squiggly and short.. But I definitely improved! )

nicely done!!!

[doomwolf86]

garynfett said:

I have few Force Lightning pictures.

There are ones like this, where I use a series of brushes to imitate Force Lightning...




or there are ones like this, where I do the same method over and over and position things to make it look like lightning.




Play with that last one a bit, and you get stuff like this.

yeah i knew that your good at that Garyn, you don't need to brag, lol sweetly done garyn!!!!

[RamZnation]

darthjordan said:

Hah, that's a sweet pic! The lightning looks fine IMO for the transparentness!

Thanks. I still need to imprve my skills to make FOrce lightning look good. Thank the maker that I only have 3 more weeks left before the quarter is over so I can hae a little more time to play with some image manipulations.

[Ti-el_terall]

Heres mine

[Pending]

I actually have a lot of lightning pics. I love it. I use the photoshop lightning brush and I can do it manually.

The fist one was obviously done witha brush. I did some coloring to the background layer. Adding some blue to his shirt. Making it seem as if the lightning is giving off a glow/light



This one was done with the inverted diffrence cloud effect. It didnt take too long.



This is a basic bolt, that I created. When I'm to lazy to make a new one, I just insert this one, set the mode to screen, and adjust. To take away similarity from each bolt, that I use in a pick I use the Liquify tool, to mix it up

[Ti-el_terall]

Same way I do it as well.

I used this tutorial as a basis www.webdesign.org/web/photoshop/drawing-techniques/star-wars-force-lightning.9216.html

[capernicus]

Okay i'm posting a pic for my brother, gonna get lightning for his hand then put it on other thread for the saber.. Unless somebody wants to do red sabers AND the lightning..

[Garyn Fett™]

Capernicus, this isn't a request thread...its a display thread. There are at least three different threads that are request threads that involve lightning.

[Commander "Cordo"]

garynfett said:

Capernicus, this isn't a request thread...its a display thread. There are at least three different threads that are request threads that involve lightning.

lol

nice work everyone! ;D

[uths16]

This si courtsey of QGJ, he was 2 scared to post it himself, he thinks it sucks but it's pretty good and at least you can do it bro, unlike me, who can't even get a single lightsaber let alone lightning.

again QGJ did this. This isn't lighting, but it's pretty good, fear the wookie!!!

[Commander "Cordo"]

uths16 said:

This si courtsey of QGJ, he was 2 scared to post it himself, he thinks it sucks but it's pretty good and at least you can do it bro, unlike me, who can't even get a single lightsaber let alone lightning.

[glow=red,2,300]Ohh deer god im gonna kill you! it was a joke that i made it 7 secs! [/glow]

[uths16]

lordgrievous said:

uths16 said:

This si courtsey of QGJ, he was 2 scared to post it himself, he thinks it sucks but it's pretty good and at least you can do it bro, unlike me, who can't even get a single lightsaber let alone lightning.

[glow=red,2,300]Ohh deer god im gonna kill you! it was a joke that i made it 7 secs! [/glow]

lmao bring it on!!!
anyway, thats good, so quit complaining.

[ram]

Nice work on the lightning, For some reason I think it's much harder.
any way I also used that link as a guide. This is what I got.