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Lightning

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006 – running time 16:32
Using photoshop in fantasy art. Create lightning, sparkles, and a mystical vortex the same way professional effects and movie matte artists do.

Highlights
hue saturation ( 5:05, 9:37, 11:25, 5:05, 9:37, 11:25 ) Mongolia ( 3:55, 3:55 ) iPhone ( 11:58, 11:58 ) rectangle ( 3:02, 3:18, 3:33, 3:02, 3:18, 3:33 ) hue saturation ( 5:05, 9:37, 11:25, 5:05, 9:37, 11:25 ) Mongolia ( 3:55, 3:55 ) iPhone ( 11:58, 11:58 ) rectangle ( 3:02, 3:18, 3:33, 3:02, 3:18, 3:33 )

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" Welcome to for a show a pixel perfect would meet her on right. The show was so you things Photoshop and now that little illustrator and hope to show is too. Teach you how to use these programs to get the best effects of whatever you wanna do. What are the main thing I also want to do -- to inspire you and motivates you to go and an experiment. The stuff you're gonna break in the program or second happen is gonna crash that's okay. Reboot the thing is to experiment going down play its best way to learn is to sit there and play. Not everything in Photoshop has -- name. Oh have the inspection filters can have on filtered untitled fool the one on title for the two it can't have doesn't have names. They get the names to get the names that layer style house it's what they do that's important. What to understand how things work to be able solve all kinds of problems that come up in the daily work schedule. I would start today show without ole favorite from you'll pay TV screen savers show. This little guy here is that wizard. On the show I showed how to create lightning. Had lightning. Striking. Behind the stormy buildings and so on and then I went in a little further and created lightning coming out of the and of the staff of the wizard. Well -- do that segment again just how they did in screen savers set you wouldn't take time. And then let's take a step further and create another set of -- them more mystical. Start off with this little wizard here now -- is a staff and what I want is -- to be shooting in all directions from the end of the staff. Now first -- to do is I have to knows that the senator staff itself was not in the Saturday image. And I need some room to play around with to make sure that when I move my lightning round it doesn't cover the wizard something -- lightning in a separate file. -- look and see how big this particular file is that come over here and I. Option click down here to see the size of the file which writes that right now I see it's 600 pixels by 600 pixels. -- could create a new file. It's a new and I give myself a lot more room to -- say a thousand pixels. By a thousand pixels that's gonna give me enough room to play it. Click okay Agha -- nice new file here mr. dances a little bit. And chocolate."

" Yeah along. Little rectangle like this -- though with black now. The book is gonna create my lightning. It's gonna do on the edges of contrasts and right now as you see got that black strip there's two edges to it says two bolts of lightning. And create another long. Rectangle here little wider and bill that would black. And by the way I'm hitting my option delete key which would be -- back space and PC that automatically fill it with. -- percent of foreground color. And even little white space there and create another long rectangle like that. So that one. Long thin one like this and again -- that. Now you see it up for shapes. Each one has sides that -- have eight bolts of lightning. This extra white space on the side here is where mother whizzes -- I don't want to cover him. Not -- a variety -- this I would give it a little. Mongolia tonight 'cause it blurs. And given a nice big -- about when that's the debate the real soft. Finale give it one more focused gonna spin everything out from the center. Which is under the start I have polar coordinates. -- polar coordinates and rectangular to polar remote as you can see right there and preview is gonna spin it out and they see that white area right there where it was it's gonna Stan. Click okay and now it's spun around. Now comes the lightning. Filter on many news is right up here on the render we have difference clouds. And difference clouds. Is gonna give me my -- There it is now right now doesn't look like I -- but when I invert this. And I start to see the -- Now want to get rid of some black cloud stuff going on this on the go into my levels command. And levels and a pull back on my -- you're down to about one point five is so right about there and my mid tones and bring them down to about. A it is about maybe point 35. Click okay. Now I noticed that my staff there is -- somewhat similar color -- my life. I'm going to hue saturation analysts say polarized which means totally changed the hue of the existing image. Push -- that's saturation it's really strong and finding hue which is right about that new. -- ago. Click okay -- now have my lightning which I'm not gonna take and grab this with my -- drag it right over onto the little guy in there. I'd throw way to file don't -- anymore. There's my lightning in place now. In order to see who was behind it all I want is a light -- I don't want the blacks so little and I set the mode for this layer to screen. It's gonna allow or the -- homes to be visible. And I'll take it and put it right there are centered on the edge of the staff. And I can pull back. Coherent pull back a little bit and see some and a white space. From the work space around it and I think that mayor -- rotated. Going there and say rotate. Spin it around so that though. Open area right where -- it was it is let that -- and I stick a little bit of -- down there no problem I can just go there and raise that part. And what we go into full size here we see that we have a little lightning shooting not in all directions from the wizard. Now let's take a step further. And more mystical. And throw away that. Let me which is created it to midnight with. I'm gonna do now is a different satellite -- all kinds of weird gains this of going to a little sparkles. And it's all going up into big vortex above his head. So right off the bat and some more room in this someone expand the top part. Of the image here so I'm doing I'm gonna pick up the color. Right here at the very top of the image. Pick up that he -- that's up there and they get the background color right there. So when I expand the size of this by going into image and canvas size I bought -- on the height. I'd make this 900. I put the image at the bottom down here and the candidate extension color it another state used the background. Okay and there have this additional sky that just appeared above and it was. I'm gonna create everything right in here I'm gonna go to separate file this time to create all my effects right in here and create a new layer. And is there I have black and white chosen. And use the clouds filter not the difference clouds this time but since the plane clouds filter. Now when I apply this to see and I colonias -- clouds and applied the clouds based on the foreground and background color me -- do that. -- hold down my option alt key. That's going to intensify that filter those modify keys intensified or changed the way things work. I think they're not documented subscription going to experiment in -- it was seen before. Hold on that option key on. Plight of Seinfeld do render clouds and now you see that there's more intensity and accounts that starts a darker and it's a lighter. So what I'm looking for is a nice little shape MacBreak did -- at this nice little home going on right in there that's the part that one that's gonna create my lightning. A kind of pulling the lightning out of the clouds. It's and I when you sit them look at clouds and sky and stars and ships and birds and things that we're doing here what looking for a lightning in the clouds and it is nice shape right through here. Don't -- the first time applied again until you see -- shape that we can. Kind of follow right through there we see it right there. Now I would do this. I'm gonna give that a filter. And go in here and give it. Find edges. -- that it does all this weird stuff going on. Which I'm not going to invert. And I'm gonna go in there with my levels. And push all my lights in this and become really light. And move this down a little bit so. It'll. Stronger revenue like that. Click okay now there's my little shape that I wanted right through there so everything else and I kind of just throw away."

" get a nice big racing here. And it's gonna kind of -- race to stuff here this go back to. Black and just go in there and erase. Them to get these little tone -- is gonna get just the parts that I want right -- hair like that. We don't the end of this stuff done here is gonna come right from the edge of his little staff. The thing that lets just get this little shape right there that's good. Now I meet the color rises to -- before and the ability hue saturation. Analysts -- color eyes. And punch up that saturation and bring an antidote news like that. Now going to do that at lightning also so let's keep this let's save those those settings that has set up and let's call it. Do. And save it -- on my desktop. That. Click okay. For now. I'm kind of hiding things on the put that in swing vote they see only that we are being stuff that it has created and -- position right over the and the staff. Now going to have to shape here I cannot create a lightning ball that's gonna travel through that. So and another layer. And go ahead and build it layer with. What it."

" I -- a group. Who have been there with what I'm gonna bring you passing interesting aspect it's either the wizard on the need -- lightning has to go and that would black. And again nice soft brush. I saw that brush here and it is gonna draw my lightning where it's gonna go traveled through there and come down and -- it to the little guy there. Nice about everything else I'm gonna just fill with black has been the capacity back up. And -- everything else with black members that edge that we're looking for that's what lightning is gonna be created. It is my little shape right here. -- good old difference clouds. Is lightning bolt which I'm gonna invert. And just like before when I go into my levels and just kind of get rid of those extra clouds we don't want an air. This down and the mid tones down a bit. -- system lightening bolt. Click okay I need to -- rises. Saigon to hue saturation and I load that in setting that put on my desktop there is the blue it's -- to the exact same blue that I had before. Click okay I put that in screen mode. There you go now we have the lightning coming through and I'm gonna just based parts I don't want -- down here. And maybe some of these clouds and let's get rid -- of this stuff right here that is lightning bolt coming right through. The that we -- stuff underneath. Now and at the vortex. So another layer up here. I'm gonna pick up that the new iPhone in here and create a nice big lips. That's right here at the top. I don't like that and let's open that up that's given a little a little feather just to soften up he would spend the about let's say fifteen. Click okay I got that -- The next of I'm gonna use right now that's a blank area so want to do is I'm."

" It throwing some tones and there that's gonna smaller brush. -- about 35 just a robot to poems and that kind of following that same circle. It is going about -- homes in there all of these weird little fates. Of weird stuff happen like that. And then come over here and I go to my filters. And distort we have here zigzag. Forget what things the call right. The very -- we have pond ripples and imponderables on increasing amounts. Amount of -- and click okay now I've got this war text that's happening on top there. These select that now we have this vortex which -- gonna put right here towards the center. And then the final touches a bunch of little sparkles. With white. -- I -- a paintbrush and another layer. I'm gonna get a nice tiny little brush about five that looks good which right now is going to do that. I'm going to my aggression. My question I'm going to and the spacing. And and and what spacing between their brush it to say that. I've been going to my shape dynamics. And and change the size of the little tips so every time it applies appoint its going to be different size of its neighbor. And then I'm gonna go into. It's -- a pen pressure off the one tennis date even I -- want to scattering. The scattering and parents read those little dots away from the throw. And putting them out like that these and I go these kinds of things happening -- like that. I think that would give -- about brush engine. And right through here I'm just gonna draw a nice little -- spartans going up all through here all these nice little sparkles. And things like that. Would we have left to do this just get rid of this little piece of -- that we have there but before we do that as the one final thing that's come real close. And here like this. And one last -- Take a brush this problem before except -- going to buy brush engine and one listings list all these guys off. And going to go to his two other dynamics. And other dynamics -- I'm gonna do and sent to a phase. Faded out -- say. Go with a thirty pixels. -- But my question and -- make a solid line. And going to click right here. Hello -- shift click which is gonna connect -- point -- point I'm not here click shift click this way. Go back in tonight. Shape dynamics. And bring it down to that say we do it fifteen. Click in the corner here come in this direction click in the corner this direction. And then make it much larger brush. Just a little touch right in the middle here to conclude their break there. And then pull back. We have this little sparkle there we who can now move. Another to a spot I think there maybe even duplicated and making rules smaller. Him sparkle that we can put somewhere else. Where in there. We have all these nice little sparkles going today we had this whole."

" Little mystical. Little wizard with his -- going through it. I'm hoping you learn something there and remember it's not the end result it's important. It's how I got that all those different techniques is studying the techniques you might never have to do lightning but how I created that light and that's what's important. You might never have to do a little spark things. But those little dots might be useful for something else so this technique that the end result is how I got today and results. I hope you got something out today show I look forward seeing you in the next felt. Have a good time playing have a good time."

" And."

" Welcome to for a show a pixel perfect would meet her on right. The show was so you things Photoshop and now that little illustrator and hope to show is too. Teach you how to use these programs to get the best effects of whatever you wanna do. What are the main thing I also want to do -- to inspire you and motivates you to go and an experiment. The stuff you're gonna break in the program or second happen is gonna crash that's okay. Reboot the thing is to experiment going down play its best way to learn is to sit there and play. Not everything in Photoshop has -- name. Oh have the inspection filters can have on filtered untitled fool the one on title for the two it can't have doesn't have names. They get the names to get the names that layer style house it's what they do that's important. What to understand how things work to be able solve all kinds of problems that come up in the daily work schedule. I would start today show without ole favorite from you'll pay TV screen savers show. This little guy here is that wizard. On the show I showed how to create lightning. Had lightning. Striking. Behind the stormy buildings and so on and then I went in a little further and created lightning coming out of the and of the staff of the wizard. Well -- do that segment again just how they did in screen savers set you wouldn't take time. And then let's take a step further and create another set of -- them more mystical. Start off with this little wizard here now -- is a staff and what I want is -- to be shooting in all directions from the end of the staff. Now first -- to do is I have to knows that the senator staff itself was not in the Saturday image. And I need some room to play around with to make sure that when I move my lightning round it doesn't cover the wizard something -- lightning in a separate file. -- look and see how big this particular file is that come over here and I. Option click down here to see the size of the file which writes that right now I see it's 600 pixels by 600 pixels. -- could create a new file. It's a new and I give myself a lot more room to -- say a thousand pixels. By a thousand pixels that's gonna give me enough room to play it. Click okay Agha -- nice new file here mr. dances a little bit. And chocolate."

" Yeah along. Little rectangle like this -- though with black now. The book is gonna create my lightning. It's gonna do on the edges of contrasts and right now as you see got that black strip there's two edges to it says two bolts of lightning. And create another long. Rectangle here little wider and bill that would black. And by the way I'm hitting my option delete key which would be -- back space and PC that automatically fill it with. -- percent of foreground color. And even little white space there and create another long rectangle like that. So that one. Long thin one like this and again -- that. Now you see it up for shapes. Each one has sides that -- have eight bolts of lightning. This extra white space on the side here is where mother whizzes -- I don't want to cover him. Not -- a variety -- this I would give it a little. Mongolia tonight 'cause it blurs. And given a nice big -- about when that's the debate the real soft. Finale give it one more focused gonna spin everything out from the center. Which is under the start I have polar coordinates. -- polar coordinates and rectangular to polar remote as you can see right there and preview is gonna spin it out and they see that white area right there where it was it's gonna Stan. Click okay and now it's spun around. Now comes the lightning. Filter on many news is right up here on the render we have difference clouds. And difference clouds. Is gonna give me my -- There it is now right now doesn't look like I -- but when I invert this. And I start to see the -- Now want to get rid of some black cloud stuff going on this on the go into my levels command. And levels and a pull back on my -- you're down to about one point five is so right about there and my mid tones and bring them down to about. A it is about maybe point 35. Click okay. Now I noticed that my staff there is -- somewhat similar color -- my life. I'm going to hue saturation analysts say polarized which means totally changed the hue of the existing image. Push -- that's saturation it's really strong and finding hue which is right about that new. -- ago. Click okay -- now have my lightning which I'm not gonna take and grab this with my -- drag it right over onto the little guy in there. I'd throw way to file don't -- anymore. There's my lightning in place now. In order to see who was behind it all I want is a light -- I don't want the blacks so little and I set the mode for this layer to screen. It's gonna allow or the -- homes to be visible. And I'll take it and put it right there are centered on the edge of the staff. And I can pull back. Coherent pull back a little bit and see some and a white space. From the work space around it and I think that mayor -- rotated. Going there and say rotate. Spin it around so that though. Open area right where -- it was it is let that -- and I stick a little bit of -- down there no problem I can just go there and raise that part. And what we go into full size here we see that we have a little lightning shooting not in all directions from the wizard. Now let's take a step further. And more mystical. And throw away that. Let me which is created it to midnight with. I'm gonna do now is a different satellite -- all kinds of weird gains this of going to a little sparkles. And it's all going up into big vortex above his head. So right off the bat and some more room in this someone expand the top part. Of the image here so I'm doing I'm gonna pick up the color. Right here at the very top of the image. Pick up that he -- that's up there and they get the background color right there. So when I expand the size of this by going into image and canvas size I bought -- on the height. I'd make this 900. I put the image at the bottom down here and the candidate extension color it another state used the background. Okay and there have this additional sky that just appeared above and it was. I'm gonna create everything right in here I'm gonna go to separate file this time to create all my effects right in here and create a new layer. And is there I have black and white chosen. And use the clouds filter not the difference clouds this time but since the plane clouds filter. Now when I apply this to see and I colonias -- clouds and applied the clouds based on the foreground and background color me -- do that. -- hold down my option alt key. That's going to intensify that filter those modify keys intensified or changed the way things work. I think they're not documented subscription going to experiment in -- it was seen before. Hold on that option key on. Plight of Seinfeld do render clouds and now you see that there's more intensity and accounts that starts a darker and it's a lighter. So what I'm looking for is a nice little shape MacBreak did -- at this nice little home going on right in there that's the part that one that's gonna create my lightning. A kind of pulling the lightning out of the clouds. It's and I when you sit them look at clouds and sky and stars and ships and birds and things that we're doing here what looking for a lightning in the clouds and it is nice shape right through here. Don't -- the first time applied again until you see -- shape that we can. Kind of follow right through there we see it right there. Now I would do this. I'm gonna give that a filter. And go in here and give it. Find edges. -- that it does all this weird stuff going on. Which I'm not going to invert. And I'm gonna go in there with my levels. And push all my lights in this and become really light. And move this down a little bit so. It'll. Stronger revenue like that. Click okay now there's my little shape that I wanted right through there so everything else and I kind of just throw away."

" get a nice big racing here. And it's gonna kind of -- race to stuff here this go back to. Black and just go in there and erase. Them to get these little tone -- is gonna get just the parts that I want right -- hair like that. We don't the end of this stuff done here is gonna come right from the edge of his little staff. The thing that lets just get this little shape right there that's good. Now I meet the color rises to -- before and the ability hue saturation. Analysts -- color eyes. And punch up that saturation and bring an antidote news like that. Now going to do that at lightning also so let's keep this let's save those those settings that has set up and let's call it. Do. And save it -- on my desktop. That. Click okay. For now. I'm kind of hiding things on the put that in swing vote they see only that we are being stuff that it has created and -- position right over the and the staff. Now going to have to shape here I cannot create a lightning ball that's gonna travel through that. So and another layer. And go ahead and build it layer with. What it."

" I -- a group. Who have been there with what I'm gonna bring you passing interesting aspect it's either the wizard on the need -- lightning has to go and that would black. And again nice soft brush. I saw that brush here and it is gonna draw my lightning where it's gonna go traveled through there and come down and -- it to the little guy there. Nice about everything else I'm gonna just fill with black has been the capacity back up. And -- everything else with black members that edge that we're looking for that's what lightning is gonna be created. It is my little shape right here. -- good old difference clouds. Is lightning bolt which I'm gonna invert. And just like before when I go into my levels and just kind of get rid of those extra clouds we don't want an air. This down and the mid tones down a bit. -- system lightening bolt. Click okay I need to -- rises. Saigon to hue saturation and I load that in setting that put on my desktop there is the blue it's -- to the exact same blue that I had before. Click okay I put that in screen mode. There you go now we have the lightning coming through and I'm gonna just based parts I don't want -- down here. And maybe some of these clouds and let's get rid -- of this stuff right here that is lightning bolt coming right through. The that we -- stuff underneath. Now and at the vortex. So another layer up here. I'm gonna pick up that the new iPhone in here and create a nice big lips. That's right here at the top. I don't like that and let's open that up that's given a little a little feather just to soften up he would spend the about let's say fifteen. Click okay I got that -- The next of I'm gonna use right now that's a blank area so want to do is I'm."

" It throwing some tones and there that's gonna smaller brush. -- about 35 just a robot to poems and that kind of following that same circle. It is going about -- homes in there all of these weird little fates. Of weird stuff happen like that. And then come over here and I go to my filters. And distort we have here zigzag. Forget what things the call right. The very -- we have pond ripples and imponderables on increasing amounts. Amount of -- and click okay now I've got this war text that's happening on top there. These select that now we have this vortex which -- gonna put right here towards the center. And then the final touches a bunch of little sparkles. With white. -- I -- a paintbrush and another layer. I'm gonna get a nice tiny little brush about five that looks good which right now is going to do that. I'm going to my aggression. My question I'm going to and the spacing. And and and what spacing between their brush it to say that. I've been going to my shape dynamics. And and change the size of the little tips so every time it applies appoint its going to be different size of its neighbor. And then I'm gonna go into. It's -- a pen pressure off the one tennis date even I -- want to scattering. The scattering and parents read those little dots away from the throw. And putting them out like that these and I go these kinds of things happening -- like that. I think that would give -- about brush engine. And right through here I'm just gonna draw a nice little -- spartans going up all through here all these nice little sparkles. And things like that. Would we have left to do this just get rid of this little piece of -- that we have there but before we do that as the one final thing that's come real close. And here like this. And one last -- Take a brush this problem before except -- going to buy brush engine and one listings list all these guys off. And going to go to his two other dynamics. And other dynamics -- I'm gonna do and sent to a phase. Faded out -- say. Go with a thirty pixels. -- But my question and -- make a solid line. And going to click right here. Hello -- shift click which is gonna connect -- point -- point I'm not here click shift click this way. Go back in tonight. Shape dynamics. And bring it down to that say we do it fifteen. Click in the corner here come in this direction click in the corner this direction. And then make it much larger brush. Just a little touch right in the middle here to conclude their break there. And then pull back. We have this little sparkle there we who can now move. Another to a spot I think there maybe even duplicated and making rules smaller. Him sparkle that we can put somewhere else. Where in there. We have all these nice little sparkles going today we had this whole."

" Little mystical. Little wizard with his -- going through it. I'm hoping you learn something there and remember it's not the end result it's important. It's how I got that all those different techniques is studying the techniques you might never have to do lightning but how I created that light and that's what's important. You might never have to do a little spark things. But those little dots might be useful for something else so this technique that the end result is how I got today and results. I hope you got something out today show I look forward seeing you in the next felt. Have a good time playing have a good time."