In the Outer Glow settings, click on the colour box – its set to yellow by default, and pick a suitable colour for your light saber.
Right – we’re getting there – but the light saber still has no colour.ġ3) In the layers palette (if you can’t see that, go to Window > Layers) – right click (or cmd+click on a mac) on the layer you created (“Shape 1”) and select Blending Options.ġ4) In the new dialog box that opens, put a check in “ Outer Glow”. Now set the radius to 2.0 pixels and hit OK. We'll use the Gaussian Blur filter for thatġ2) Select Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur. That’s better – but it’s still a very hard line so we need to soften it a bit. This is fiddly work, so select the magnifying glass tool and zoom in to the end of the blade by clicking on it a few times:ġ0) Now in the menu at the top, set the brush width to the same as you set your line width to earlier (12px in this case), and the hardness to 100%.ġ1) Now carefully position the brush at the end of the blade, and draw on the rounded end: It should look something like this:ħ) Now rasterize the shape by selecting Layer > Rasterize > ShapeĨ) As you can see the end of the blade is a bit square, so we’ll need to round it off.
For this image about 12px is right – but experiment to see what suits your image – you want this line to be about 75% of the width the final light saber blade will be! Again, this setting is in the top sub menu.Ħ) Now carefully draw your line over where you want the light saber blade to be. To do that – select the pen tool in the main tools menu on the left – now select the line tool from the new sub menu at the top.Ĥ) Now click on the “ color” box in the top menu, and set the colour to whiteĥ) By default the line weight is 1px – you’ll need to increase that. This is the Layer we’ll be drawing the light saber blade on.ģ) Select the line tool. However the image was lacking a little something, which reminded me of a great trick in Photoshop to add a lightsaber effect.Ģ) Create a new layer by selecting Layer > New > Layer. Last weekend my good friend (and self-confessed Sci-Fi fan) Jen went to the London Film Museum, and had this great photo taken of herself brandishing a lightsaber in front of a piece of original Star Wars set.
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How to Create a Lightsaber Effect in Photoshopįind out how to create your own Photoshop lightsaber with this easy step-by-step tutorial! If you don’t have a toy light saber it doesn't matter – just strike the pose with something that looks like a light saber handle, and Photoshop can do the rest!!
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If you want to use this image for the Photoshop tutorial you can download it here – but much better to use your own. Here’s the original image – as you can see Jen’s got her lightsaber, but it’s just a white stick, which looks rubbish. So – here’s how to add a Photoshop lightsaber effect… How to Create a Lightsaber Effect in Photoshop CS5 And for all those programming geeks reading this – did you know that we also now offer JavaScript Training, jQuery Training and Ajax Training too?! To really get to grips with Photoshop, Silicon Beach Training offer Photoshop Training and Advanced Photoshop Training, as well as InDesign Training in Brighton, Sussex. However the image was lacking a little something, which reminded me of a great trick in Photoshop to add a lightsaber effect. Last weekend my good friend (and self-confessed Sci-Fi fan) Jen went to the London Film Museum, and had this great photo taken of herself brandishing a lightsaber in front of a piece of original Star Wars set. Find out how to create your own Photoshop lightsaber with this easy step-by-step tutorial!
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