Here's a sweet little trick to create some lightning, you can also add it to images like sky pictures, i will stick to making the lightning in this tutorial, if you want a tutorial on how to add it to images etc just leave a reply and i get on it right away.

Here's "my" finished result, it tends to be different everytime you make the lightning ( due to the difference clouds filter )

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1. MAke a new image with transparent background (i did 300x300 pixels)...Press d to reset the colour, choose the gradient tool then create a gradient from the top left to the bottom right of the transparent image.

2. Filter > Render > Clouds...Filter > Render > Difference Clouds...then press Ctrl + F if you want to give it more detail which would result in more strikes of lightning...

3. Image > Adjustments > Invert(Ctrl + I)

4. Hit Ctrl + L Then mess about with the arrows below the graph until you start to see the image appear as lightning. THese are my settings below..

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5. This step is optional, it is mainly to add some colour and life to your image, and make it look more realistic...

Go to Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation (Ctrl + U). Then tick the colorize box and move the arrows to your liking to change the colour, darkness etc...

YOUR DONE!

( If you have an idea of how to add this effect into an image, remember to make the lightning in a new layer, and set the blend mode to SCREEN in [B]Blending options[B] )

I really hope this tutorial has helped you out, i probably made it sound harder than it actually is, but i'm kinda new to writing out tutorials, so the tutorials will get better, but if there anyway i can help just ask

Jay (jay661uk@hotmail.co.uk)

Hi Jay661


Final result looks really cool

Gonna try this out. Thanks for sharing with us

no problem mate, hope a few mroe people find it handy, gonna make some more tutorials, nothing else to do with my time lol, my life is computer bed,

also if anyone requests a tutorial, just give me a shout and i get on it asap! asap means as soon as you ask me to

Thanks alot eddie

Jay

Hi Jay and welcome thankyou for adding this, we also have another lightning tut up here:

http://www.13dots.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=929 that was quite popular in its day

oops sorry, i only checked out a few of the tuts so didnt come across the lightning one, i onyl joined today you see, so sorry again but next time i will make sure theres no tuts on it, the tuts i have in mind, well i dont think anyone will of made one for it,

Anyway back to photoshop lol

Thanks for the welcome also

Jay

Thats fine we don't mind 2 of the same , you can always have a peek here:

http://www.13dots.com/forum/index.php?act=tutorials I need to update it but majority are in there.

I saw that, some wicked tuts! the best site i ever seen this one for tuts!

Thanks anyway trueer, the people i spoke to on here seem reli nice upto now

Maybe i can get some msn addresses sometime and exchange some graphics etc

Jay

Nice tut Jay661. and an excellent result
Thanks for sharing this
Regards,
spd

Thanks These replies mean alot seeing as ionly just started out doing these tutorials, im deffo gonna be addin alot more tutorials, i will just shove all my tuts in this section of the forums, that way i dnt have to go skimmin through all the different forums to check the replies lol


SO thanks again, its 4.45 am here Gonna get some sleep, then back to photoshop, and i will put another tutorial on today,

Night all lol xx

Jay

Hey Jay,

Thank you for sharing this tut! We appreciate it .

That's really handy,

Thanks for sharing Jay !

Warm Regards,

Zaigham

No problem, just working on a new design, will be good once its done then i get doing a tut asap

Jay

Nice effect, Jay661.

Thanks for adding.

That's the best lightning tut i've seen thanks!

looooooooool easy steps

I will try :whistle:

Hi again people.....

Thankyou so much for the replies!!

Ive been ill the past day or so, but they really cheered me up

So once again thanks loooads!!

they really encouraged me to make alot more tutorials, so ive got working on some graphics....

WIll put them up soon

Thanks alot


Jay

So u like to make tuts do ya Jay Welcome and thanks for the lightening tut.
I have a question I'm wondering if u could help with, but I don't think too many would be interested, it's probly kinda lame, so instead of posting it all up here, if u really think u would have time for this, I'd appreciate a pm very much, so I could explain it.

this is really cool, thanks

no probs m8y

This is nice.
Thanks

very cool-very understandable to make it

nitasa