Simply fill the area that you want filled in with random lightning with black.
After that is done, go to:
1) ->Filter->Render->Clouds
2) -> Filter->Render->Difference Clouds
3) Press Control + I to inverse the colors
4) Press Control L to select the levels
5) Adjust the levels so that the lightning is dimmed but not too much.
And from there you can change the colors by pushing Control U, and click on the "Colorize" check box. Adjust the colors as you wish! and mess with it to get cool effects!
I'm designing a logo for a very electronic band, and I was wanting to put an electrical or lightning sort of effect in the background, like an explosion of elecricity or something.
i have seen this tutorial which tells you how to create sparks between wires.
i have a wires graphic ready to go but i have photoshop 7 whereas the tutorial is aimed at 5.5. i cant seem to get this effect to work. for instance in step 2 Dan says:
I need to generate a lightning effect and then export the frames to several PNG images.
I figured out how to do the lightning and how to export transparent PNGs, but I can't get rid of the lightning solid background (which is balck in my case).
I have a layer which includes font that's been merged with another layer. I want it to appear to "ripple". The problem here is I can't just use some random ripple effect. I need to to correspond with the layer below it which is a pic of a wavy piece of paper. So it needs to be accurate enough so that no one will notice.
I have some random curves (already created) and I want to blur them just from one side to have the same blur distance and effect one the whole curve.
To more precisely describe what I need, I need to create gradient with direction of normal for every "point". The best example I have found so far are borders in Civilization IV game. Here are two examples:
As you can see, there is a solid curve, which gradually blends (i.e. alpha channel is lowered) till the gradient disappears. I have the solid curve and the question is, what would be the simplest way how to do this (the number of curves is around 100) gradient.
There is a Tut on how to do random lightning, but how do i do lightning on which i can direct. e.g. lightning under text. Can anyone give me any advise or locations of tut's.
i recently took this pic in utah and i posted it in another forum and someone said to lighten the shadows to make it look better. Now the only way i know how to lighten the shadows would be to use curves but then i always end up lightening the whole pic. So then i tried shadows/highlights but have never really worked too much with that in just working on shadows and not the whole picture. So here is the before picture....
Its been a while but I made a banner a couple years back following an extremely well setup tutorial I found online... I want to use the same concept for something else I'm working on but I JUST CANT REMEMBER all the steps to create it!
I remember how to make some of the stuff... Clouds, Difference Clouds, some stuff like that... But the main problem I'm having is remembering how to animate it to look the way it does.
The lighting effects classic plugin from the optional downloads page crashes both the 32 and 64 bit versions of photoshop cc (version 14) on a windows 7 x64 system when invoked from Filter>Render>Lighting Effects Classic.
I've been using photoshop 7.0 for quite some time now and i've realized that when I go to Filter > Render > Lightning effects.... i cant use the styles bar anymore....i use to be able to but recently i just cant anymore.... anyone know why i cant use the styles option in "Lightning effects" ? Would having win xp sp2 cause some conflict ?
In the attached photo of a spread from album liner notes, you may be able to make out some handwriting (I've outlined the area in red.) I'd like that area to be easier to read than it currently is when printed in a book project I'm working on. How can I lighten that area so the handwriting is readable, without making it feel too bright, and have it still blend with the rest of it's side AND the other side of the spread?
I'm using 3ds (mental ray) for architectural visualization. I normally have different cameras for exterior and interior renders in one model. Each scene should have its own specific lightning and shadow settings (intensity, shadow position, etc)
Is it possible to have multiple sun positions in the same model which would be connected to each camera?
If not, what would be the best way to achieve various lightning settings? I would like to avoid having one file for each camera position.
I am looking for a good lightning solution to use in a number of scenes. I looked at Draper's pflow lightning setup but could not get it to work correctly.. in the short framecount I need it to occur.It looked great but only over 600 frames.
I am animating splines and I think I can get that to work ok.. but
I have created a block and it has a little lightning logo next to it, I have never come a cross this, when I click on other blocks, the logo doesn't appear. Why is it there?
I have been using Coreldraw for several years now to create maps, but I am not good with the artistic tools, I need to create something like the attached "Back to Future" photo, specially the fire & lightning effects, I am planning to replace the car with another object.
Sometimes I work offstie, so no wacom tablet with me. How can I spray sparkles/dust/etc and vary aspects randomly such as size? Even with the wacom would like more random results, than gradated.
I really like how illustrator does this with sliders so you can set a range. Can I set up something simlar in Photoshop?
I updated my Mac and everything was fine until i had to restart it. My Photoshop's keyboard short cut became all random like this:I tried restarting my computer again but it has not changes.
The most weird part is that when i tried to change the short-cuts, it won't work even though i clicked on accept and "ok". Is there a way i can turn this back? It wasn't like this when i first got this back at November.
I am having a problem with my brush/stamp/eraser tool in photoshop CS5.5. Whenever I click to paint, erase..etc it will sometimes randomly paint elsewhere on my photo. Sometimes it will paint just one spot or other times it will paint a whole line or squiggle across my photo. I have checked my brush settings and I don't have anything turned on for it to do so (i.e. scattering, shape dynamics, spacing).
