{"id":840,"date":"2007-09-03T05:35:06","date_gmt":"2007-09-03T13:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=840"},"modified":"2008-07-11T10:14:06","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T18:14:06","slug":"adobe-photoshop-very-simple-tutorial-lightning-bolts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=840","title":{"rendered":"Adobe Photoshop Very Simple Tutorial: Lightning Bolts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nLast summer, my wife and I went to Los Angels to see my uncle. One afternoon, his wife Jennie and my wife went shopping. And Uncle Bog was taking a nap. So I was watching TV. Actually, I was watching weather news. Well, the weather man was saying it would be sunny all day. Wait, sunny? By the way, the weather man looked like Nicolas Cage.<\/p>\n

The following tutorial shows steps to illustrate lightning bolts in the sky. It’s easy to design lightnings, using Adobe Photoshop CS2. In fact, we have done it before. (REF: Adobe Photoshop Creative Design #4: A Stormy Day<\/a>). But such simple lightnings are unrealistic because lightning bolts are not branching out. This time, we use a Photoshop plug-in called Eye Candy 5: Textures from Alien Skin Software. By the way, this plug-in also runs with Adobe Fireworks.<\/p>\n

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  1. Let’s make the sky a little darker, first. Grab Rectangular Marquee Tool<\/strong> to make a selection. If necessary, place a layer mask and apply black & white gradient colors vertically.<\/li>\n
  2. After creating a new layer, choose Marble<\/strong> from Eye Candy 5: Textures. There is no need to fill the selection with a color.<\/li>\n
  3. Pick white and black for Bedrock Color<\/strong> and Vein Color<\/strong>, respectively. Move the sliders of Feature Size<\/strong> and Coverage<\/strong> nearly all the way to the right. If you don’t get the right design, click on Random Seed<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  4. Repeat the last step to design a few lightning bolts. When finished, combine layers by selecting Merge Layers<\/strong> in the Layer Palette.\n
  5. Select Adjustments<\/strong> > Invert<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  6. Finally, change the blend mode to Screen<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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