Photoshop Lightning And Explosion Effect Create a cool lightning/ explosion effect.

[Wolves 0]

Step 1:

Open photoshop and create an image of any size. For this tutorial I have made mine 640x480, though it does not really matter what size you choose.

 

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Step 2:

Create a selection. Make it kind of jagged and lightning shape. You can make it much more complex than the one shown, just I wanted to make it quickly.

 

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Step 3:

Go to Filter> Render> Clouds and make it inside your selection.

 

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Step 4:

Use a medium sized brush and brush in some forked shapes and stuff.

 

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Step 5:

Go to Filter> Render> Blur and do a blur of about 5.4

 

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Step 6:

Use a smaller brush and brush in some more forked shapes, blurring again.

 

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Step 7:

I made some more shapes and blurred them some more.

Also, CTRL+CLICK on your lightning layer and press CTRL+I then DELETE

 

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Step 8:

Go to Edit> Image Adjustments> Brightness/Contrast and make your image as dark as you can make it.

 

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Step 9:

Make some more clouds on the underlying layer, select the top one and press Ctrl+E to merge them.

Press Ctrl+I and go to Edit> Image Adjustments> Hue and Saturation, check the colorize box and play around with the settings.

 

This is my final result:

Edited May 23, 2006 by Wolves (see edit history)

[valdisxp1 0]

Dude plz fix the picswithout its useless

[arza1 0]

really wish you would fix the pics i want to know how to do this

[Blessed 0]

Greetings,man i like the result,could you pleas fiz the pictures,thax in advance,checking out the other tutorial

[Casino.Royale 0]

The ending result is a bit er, wierd? It kinda looks like a leg with tentacles to me,lol.

[deCimal 0]

It looks like a lizard to me. I'll try it though. It just looks a bit random to me. Thank you anyway. Good job.

[arza1 0]

is there any way to keep it from blurring i wonder. i mean this could be sort of useful it was a better quality pic. i wish you would fix the pics in the tutorial. then maybe i could help you out with how to make it look better. for this do you need a blank canvas or is it best to start with any pic.