lightning bolts

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daniel_barr
Sep 3, 2006
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I this where i can ask how to make some lightening? hopefully it is…

i’m making a logo…and want to add lightning/electricity to it to make it look electrified. I can make lightening using the render clouds and the levels changing method…but the problem with this is it uses a black background…and i need perfect lightening on a transparent background so i can place it into my logo…

any ideas?
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Mathias_Vejerslev
Sep 3, 2006
Change blending mode of lightning layer to Screen.
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daniel_barr
Sep 3, 2006
was trying to do that…but then it doesn’t show up on a white background…and that’s where i’m trying to get it to show up
DB
daniel_barr
Sep 3, 2006
ok…i got it…i just changed the background to gray…suppose i’ll use that on my website rather than white…hope it looks good

but if anyone knows a way to make the lightening stand out on a white background…i’d still love you know
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glen_deman
Sep 3, 2006
You can try putting a darker color around just the lightning (almost like a stroke). The tricky part is getting it to look good, but then again that’s the tricky part of any artistic endeavor 😉
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Ed_Hannigan
Sep 3, 2006
How about you invert the image with the black background? It would look weird, but I think a lightning bolt against a light background isn’t going to look great anyway.
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daniel_barr
Sep 3, 2006
ok…i did try to invert the colors..but still didn’t show on a white background for some reason…it’s all good though…i’ll just do a gray background for the website and minus the electricty arcs for printed stuff on white…

web
<http://creedsrealm.com/images/3rdfuse_gray.jpg>
print
<http://creedsrealm.com/images/3rdfuse_white.jpg>
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Gary Wedemayer
Sep 4, 2006
If you can create your lightening bolts on a black background, why not copy that layer into an alpha channel, load it as a selection, and then paste your favorite color into it? You could also play around with copying different colors into different layers, and then adjusting the opacity and/or blending mode. Perhaps even embossing the bolt to give it a little light scatter or fog. Or perhaps once you’ve created your alpha channel, duplicate it and apply a gaussian blur to one of the channels; use the sharp channel to apply a brilliant blue-white core to the bolt, but underneath it use the blurred channel to apply an electric blue halo.

Lots of room to play around in.

Cheers!
–garywed

On Sun, 3 Sep 2006 09:00:22 -0700, wrote:

I this where i can ask how to make some lightening? hopefully it is…
i’m making a logo…and want to add lightning/electricity to it to make it look electrified. I can make lightening using the render clouds and the levels changing method…but the problem with this is it uses a black background…and i need perfect lightening on a transparent background so i can place it into my logo…

any ideas?

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