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Photoshop Lightsaber

Photoshop Lightsaber

This is how to draw a lightsaber in photoshop!

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Step 1Open background or create new picture.

Open background or create new picture.

You can either open a picture or create a new picture, whichever you do, make sure that where you're drawing the blade is not too bright!(If it is the blade won't show up! My example has a background color "400000".)

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Jul 4, 2009. 6:17 PMGalgarith says:

Help! I'm stuck on step 3. I have Photoshop 4.0, and it won't let me choose Outer Glow in the Layers menu. No matter what I try, I can't manually set outer glow around the white line. What do I do? Is 4.0 too old for this tutorial?

Jul 24, 2009. 11:22 AMwizerd 745 (author) says:

have you rasteriezed the line?

Apr 16, 2008. 4:15 PMAar000n3y says:

This has already been done here.

Nov 26, 2008. 10:18 PMThe Expert Noob says:

I like the glow of this one better than the other one :-P

May 16, 2009. 6:11 PMsplitwood says:

your pick, lol "is it a spider?"

Apr 16, 2008. 6:14 PMItsTheHobbs says:

no, it hasn't, that one is for editing a picture or movie, while this is for a nice, simple animation trick.

Apr 16, 2008. 6:55 PMAar000n3y says:

But it's the same process

May 1, 2008. 5:17 AMwizerd 745 (author) says:

when i did this I didn't know it had already been done before

Feb 27, 2009. 1:30 PMDSAdzionator says:

You're supposed to consider that before you write an instructable.

Apr 1, 2009. 3:45 PMwizerd 745 (author) says:

OK! I posted this a year ago as my first instructable, I get the point.

Why comment on a year old subject? (rhetorical question)

Apr 16, 2008. 6:14 PMItsTheHobbs says:

btw, really nice 'ible.

Apr 16, 2008. 4:47 PMGorillazMiko says:

Copy my about-to-post-comment.

=P

Apr 16, 2008. 6:30 PMItsTheHobbs says:

GGGRRRRRRRRRR doesn't work on mac.

Apr 16, 2008. 6:56 PMWard_Nox says:

the blade has to be on its own layer

Apr 19, 2008. 3:48 PMItsTheHobbs says:

Ok, that'll probably help

Apr 16, 2008. 7:07 PMWard_Nox says:

If you use it on text u get a neon tube sort of look this is my logo using this trick

Apr 16, 2008. 3:50 PMWard_Nox says:

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Apr 16, 2008. 3:50 PMWard_Nox says:

damn it i can't resist BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

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