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Old 10-18-2006   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by wombie View Post
i have no time to write a proper tut but you can get good looking lightning by creating a black to white linear gradient then applying the render>difference clouds, then hit ctrl + l and pulling the white level marker right over to the left then adjust the grey one a bit until the black is in a lightnight type form. Next invert the colours and add a hue and saturation adjustment layer to turn the lightning the colour you want. from here you can copy the lightning around a bit to get a better result. if copying set the layer mode to lighten.

heres what i got (dunno if its plasma or not :P) :



hope this helps
Naaah, thats a plasma-type lightning bolt.
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