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tutorial - make some sweet light textures
I am currently procrastinating writing an analysis on Mrs. Dalloway, so I figured, hey!, I'll write a tutorial and impart some of my knowledge on to my beloved watchers. Before you all start reading, I should mention this tutorial requires Photoshop, so make sure you've got one of those suckers. Good? On we go.

1. Open a New Image. Make sure "Background Contents:" is set to Transparent.
2. Select the Pen Tool. Set it to Paths and Pen Tool.

3. Click a point either in the top right or top left, then click another point somewhere in the middle, but do not let go of the mouse! Instead drag your cursor, and a curve will appear. Then, click somewhere in the bottom and drag to complete the curve. You should now have a selected curve.

4. Now, select your brush, and set the diameter to 12px and the Hardness to 0%. Make sure your foreground colour is white.
5. Select your pen tool once more. Right-click the object, select "Stroke Path...", choose "Brush" under Tool, and make sure "Simulate Pressure" is checked, then click Ok.
6. Right-click the Layer the object is on (probably Layer 1 unless you were ridiculous and have obsessive organizational issues and renamed it something else) and go to "Blending Options".
7. Under Styles, go to "Outer Glow". Click the little square (probably some sort of yellow) and pick a colour, any colour! Go wild. Then, set Opacity to 100% and Size to something around 15px. The smaller this number, the skinnier and more intense the beam. Conversely, the higher this number, the wider but less intense the beam. Press Ok. Your settings should look like this:


8. Admire how pretty your beam looks. Ooooh shiny. Okay, great, but we can make this even better! I present to you... Inner Glow. Right-click the layer again, and go back to Blending Options. This time though, under Styles, select "Inner Glow". Just like before, change the opacity to 100% and the size to around 15px, perhaps a little lower. Then, choose a colour that is slightly lighter than your previous colour. Press Ok.

Yay!
9. Save it! But, if you plan on uploading it to the internet, make sure to save it as a .png to ensure the transparency is kept intact.
10. Wait that's it?? ... Yep, that's it.

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	i_we_you 2008-03-30 12:50 am UTC (link)
	Thanks! Saved)) (Reply to this)

	cici_chan 2008-03-30 01:01 am UTC (link)
	Awesome, thanks! :) (Reply to this)(Thread)

(no subject) - jmfossil, 2008-04-02 02:08 am UTC

	cold_jade 2008-03-30 01:06 am UTC (link)
	*Mems* Thank you! (Reply to this)

	crazyforakame 2008-03-30 01:12 am UTC (link)
	thank you^^ .. (Reply to this)

	lostlittlebird 2008-03-30 01:27 am UTC (link)
	Thanks! So great (Reply to this)

	icamon 2008-03-30 01:28 am UTC (link)
	so simple! thanks i'm going to try this now :D (Reply to this)

	yrprocks66 2008-03-30 01:32 am UTC (link)
	meming, thanks!! (Reply to this)

	ichnelle 2008-03-30 01:42 am UTC (link)
	weeee~ thank you so much for the tutorial ;D (Reply to this)

	wtfdrppr 2008-03-30 01:44 am UTC (link)
	I really wish I had the pen tool. ;[ (Reply to this)

	xxstarryskies 2008-03-30 01:51 am UTC (link)
	saving to memories, because this is amazing. thanks very very much!! :D (Reply to this)

	polarbear_girl 2008-03-30 02:28 am UTC (link)
	thanks so much! saving to mems (Reply to this)

	dearnylon 2008-03-30 02:31 am UTC (link)
	adding to mems, thanks. (Reply to this)

	xxmiracle 2008-03-30 02:55 am UTC (link)
	thank you~ (Reply to this)

	maaaae 2008-03-30 03:31 am UTC (link)
	Spiffy tutorial. +mem'd : ) (Reply to this)

	firecandy89 2008-03-30 04:30 am UTC (link)
	Memming! Thank you. (Reply to this)

	une_topaze 2008-03-30 05:17 am UTC (link)
	awesome, thanks. <333 *whips out cs3* (Reply to this)

	saturatiion 2008-03-30 06:17 am UTC (link)
	wah...that's so cool <3 (Reply to this)

	everbluec 2008-03-30 07:54 am UTC (link)
	Wow... thanks for the tips!!! (Reply to this)

	tvxqisdalove 2008-03-30 09:23 am UTC (link)
	this is great. memming! :D (Reply to this)

	kogino 2008-03-30 01:42 pm UTC (link)
	I really wanted to learn how to make that ~ Thank u very much ... adding 2 mems (Reply to this)

	love_kate_walsh 2008-03-30 01:48 pm UTC (link)
	Great tut. Thanks for sharing ;) (Reply to this)

	iwant_sprinkles 2008-03-30 02:25 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, WOW, this is so cool! Thanks :D (Reply to this)

	sy_ya 2008-03-30 02:26 pm UTC (link)
	Thanks for sharing that! ^^, (Reply to this)

	xxkuroihoshixx 2008-03-30 02:41 pm UTC (link)
	Thank you! I really love it :) +mems (Reply to this)

	nyaza 2008-03-30 03:00 pm UTC (link)
	This is awesome, thank you very much <3 Adding to mems. I do have a question, cause, maybe it's just me doing it wrong or sth... with this method the edges are supposed to look thiner? cause i cant seem to do that ._.! Just had to ask. (Reply to this)(Thread)

(no subject) - presents, 2008-03-30 03:08 pm UTC

(no subject) - nyaza, 2008-03-30 03:21 pm UTC

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