- Glowing Lightning Tutorial -

Required:
Small knowledge of Photoshop and ImageReady.
Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2 (or similar)
Adobe ImageReady (Comes with CS/CS2 - not sure about others)
Vreid Lightning Brushes: I WILL UPLOAD THEM WHEN I GET SOME SPACE, BUT MY SPACE IS DOWN AND I COULDNT FIND THEM ON DEVIANTART WITHOUT SEARCH...

Difficulty:
Easy

Type:
Animation

Time Needed:
10 – 20 min (less if experienced)

STEP 1:
Get a good sig... I will use this one...

It has a black lightening strike, but we want it to flash, so dont put that in...

STEP 2:
Now, to put in a lightning strike we use the HISTORY BRUSH below the normal brush tool. After using this, you will notice a transparent bit in the shape of a lightning bolt.
To colour the lightning bolt, make a new layer under the layer of the sig, and use the fill black.
It should look something like this:


STEP 3:
Now duplicate the layer, and make a colour overlay white.


STEP 4:
Now make duplicate the layer 3 more times so that you have a layer window that looks something like this:


STEP 5: Now change the colour overlays on the different layers so that it gradually gets whiter, until in the fifth background layer, it is completely white.
Now it should look like this:


STEP 6: Now import the image into ImageReady (Shift+Ctrl+M).
Make 9 Frames, one for each colour + cooldown for a believable loop. In the first frame, click on the eyes next to the background layers to make them all invisible, and then starting from the black layer, make each frame have the next lighter colour up until you get to the white, and then go back down again, returning back to black.

STEP 7 - Finishing Touches: Now all you have to do is chaange the delay times for each frame, and then Save Optimized As... And there you have it!
Congratulations, You should have something like this:


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NOTE: I didnt make the lightning brushes, i found them on DeviantArt.

Have you submited to good tutorials?

Nah, not yet, ill do it when i get back from my holidays, im currently at my brothers house in bremer bay (really far away) and have 10 mins of internet left so yeah... BUT i still need to put those brushes up... i'll do it all when i get back.
Cheers...
Ohn and also, if you do submit, can u submit to P2L aswell?

Oops. You failed the first step :P Nah you know I'm only joking. Good job and it's good to see you around posting tutorials. I've submitted all the tutorials here that I made to P2L so if you like I can do yours to.

Nah ill submit mine to P2L but i still need to find that brush!
DAMN DeviantArt for having a screwed search script... :P

ive got those brushes so if you like i can host them and add a link to ur post

Vreid Lightning? Really? Cool... Alright, can u host them and put a link in like -
Vreid Lightning Brushes: [URL=http://vreid lightning brushes here...]Vreid Lightning.abr[/URL]

Thanks... I would host them but my hosting is down, and i havent got my computer back yet so.... Yeah... You can add a courtesy of Jesuses left leg noticwe there aswell if ya want...
Cheers, Terra.

apparently i cant edit topics only posts so.. ive PM'd you what i reckon are the same brushes :)

Ok cheers! :D

Hey I got your message about submitting it. Send us a 40x40 GIF preview and I'll do it. I would but I can't be bothered. :P