Lightning


You will need:
Paint Shop Pro 7.04 - You can get a trial version here

Let's get started!

1. Open a new image 400 X 400, 16 million colors, and transparent background.

2. Change your foreground color black #000000 and background set to null.

3. Flood fill with color black (#000000).

3. Add a new layer, and change you foreground color to white.

4. Start drawing out your main lightning "fingers" using the draw tool set at these settings.



5. When you think you have enough this size change the size to 1 and continue to draw out a few or as many as you want of the smaller sized lines. This is how mine looks now.



6. Now here's the easy way to get a glow using only the effects in PSP without having to retrace your lines.

First, you need to go to your layer pallet and duplicate this layer.

7. Then make your layer 2 active again.

8. Selections/Select All/Float.

9. Selections/Modify/Expand 4.

10. Flood fill with white.

11. Deselect.

12. Effects/Blur/Gaussian Blur set at 4 or 5. I used 5.

13. Delete layer 1 (the black layer). And then highlight the top layer or mine is called "copy of layer 2".

14. Layers/Merge/Merge Visible. That's it! Save it and or Export as tube for future use or if you want to colorize your lightning, just do the next two steps.

15. Colors/Adjust Brightness, Contrast and use these settings: Brightness -109 and Contrast 30.

16. Colors/Colorize Set at HUE 182 Saturation 255 for a pretty purple lightning or play around and come up with a color you like.

Here's a few I made.

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