[Shadow-X-]

Hey, when I ofen look at one's paintings, I see nice effects. One of them being that glowing effect. How do you people achieve this? FOr example, a light sabre from Star Wars. It's a really bright colour in the centre, but it dissapates as it gets farther and farther away from the middle of the blade outwards. How do you make the centre colour look actually 'bright', and add a smokey effect to it?? This is most evident in Dhabih's painting of 'Created in 1999', the one pic of the Tempest. People ofen use this effect for lightning also!

[Affected]

Pssst - They paint it that way. Pick that bright colour and paint the center.

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[Danny]

Hey Shadow...

this really is quite simple. There are a number of ways to go about it..
One method I frequently use for glows is to copy the to-be-glowed element in another layer (which should go above). Then give it a proper radius of Gaussian blur (depending on how diffuse you want your glow to be, takes a bit of experimentation) and after that give the layer a degree of translucency. And voila.. a nice glowing object..
It's also interesting to experiment with the various diffirent methods of layer compositing the PS offers, trying luminosity, or soft/hard light settings..

Hope this helps,

Danny


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[Digital Genesis]

If you mean the fuzz that extends beying the actual light saber. The 'glow'.
Then Danny's method will work.

You can also, for a more custom made solution, use the airbrush. Try using it at different settings, but the main point is to work gradually. Try and lay down the extend of the glow first with very faint strokes, then slowly increase the intensity as you work towards the light source.

With practice you should end up with nice glow effects.

[Synax]

Or you can use layer effects, and set a Dodge Layer over another. Just experiment w/ stuff, because by the sound of it, you're just learning PS.

--Synax

[Rinaldo]

Set your brush to "screen".

put down a colour, say blue if you want to draw a lightsaber. then set an airbrush to screen and start painting the bit you want to be lighter. when it won't get any brighter, select the colour that the screen has produced and do it again. you can experiment with screening different colours over each other to get a more sophisticated look.
I'm pretty sure this is how a lot of comic book colouring is done.

[LeChuck]

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