[fencepost]

Well, it's been well over a year since I created/posted the tutorial so I don't recall. However, in this case, I think everything should work just fine. I'm guessing you have a question other than the one you've just posted, so if you can explain what you're needing help on, I'll do my best.

[BetaWar]

Well I guess that I am at this point just wondering if it has to be a square that you use to make the lightening? If so that could explain why mine looks funky...

I guess at this point it really isn't a big deal if I can't get it to work out but that doesn't mean it wouldn't be nice if it did...

I typically like your tutorials and just thouight that this one looked interesting so I would give it a shot... but oh well it is no big deal.

[fencepost]

No, the lightning should work on any size layer. I just ran a quick test and my lightning looked fine. Is the blend mode of your gradient tool something other than "normal?" I know we experimented with that some and maybe you didn't set it back. Double-click the gradient tool button to open the options and see if that's what's causing you grief. Just a thought.

As far as the point I was trying to make in my previous post...I certainly don't mind helping you, but your request just died in the middle. It's like we're having a face to face conversation and you got up and walked out of the room. No goodbye, no "I'm done", nothing. I can't process your request if you've given me nothing to work with....that's all....

[BetaWar]

Ya sorry about that. I figured out what the problem was, I had the dithering option selected while on the gradient tool. I didn't see any area that told us to unselect all options for the tool so I left it the way it was (with normal style setting).

Here is what it looks like now:


As you can see, it turned out a TON better than my first attempt :)

Thanks for the help

[meme]

nice tut thx

here my there 2

[Kavukamari]

I see a lightning script in the near future... oh and this has the liteness at 30
and the same:but with different colored txt

[-omar]

how do you make it animated?

[gnar]

you know i was thinking Art, you could combine this tut with your animated rain tut and make a really cool storm scene! :w:

i'm getting to work on it now!

[guardkid]

http://i35.photobuck...5/lightning.jpg


i made this in a few minutes great tut

[guardkid]

here sorry for the last post

[N-TOWA]

(I know this topic is old, sorry for bumping it)

I like the effect that this makes, but I can only get it on a black image, how do I get it on something else, without the black background(sorry, just starting to learn GIMP)

[Sweet_kitty22]

[Sanchez]

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I like the effect that this makes, but I can only get it on a black image, how do I get it on something else, without the black background(sorry, just starting to learn GIMP)

After you colorize the layer, go to Colors -> Color to Alpha for GIMP 2.3 or Layers -> Transparency -> Color to Alpha for GIMP 2.2. Select black, and all black pixels will be replaced with transparency.





Here's an example result:

[dom_gold]

how do ya addd the lightning i got as far as making the background black then what

[Frederikke]

Fun and easy tutorial to follow. thanks again Art. I'm usually lazy and use a lightning brush, but I might in the future try to make my own :)


and with a lil hot twist


Frederikke

[guitarmagedo]

nice tutorial.

pretty new to photoshop.


dunno how to show images :(

i got a pretty cool one too

[fencepost]

Thanks for the compliments on the tutorial.

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pretty new to photoshop.

Do you mean GIMP?

As far as showing the images, just below the area where you type in your post, is a box called Upload Image....try using that. Otherwise, try hosting the image on imageshack or photobucket and then put the image link in between the [*img*]image link [*/img*] tags (remove the asterisks before you do. I only did that so the tags would show up and wouldn't try to link to an image.

Art

[Kyle Grams]

ok so how do u animate it?

[fencepost]

Create several different layers of lightning and save as a gif. If you want to place the lightning layers over another image (like a signature), set the layer mode of the lightning layers to "Lighten"

[ShakiraFixation]

here's mine!!



thanks alot for the tut!