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Electric Beam

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Make cool glowing lines to make a burst effect , good on abstrac pieces..

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Open up a new image that you want to put the lines on , get the brush that I have selected in the above pixture. Create a new layer and draw a line stright up and down.

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Now go filter blur>>Gaussian Blur and copy these settings.

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Go to Filter>>Distort>>Shear and make somthing like above.

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Now copy these setting if you would like a glowy effect, or else you are aloud to skip this step.

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Now go to your layer palete and click on duplicate layer like above.

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Hit ctrl+T to bring up the free transform. And drag the line over so it is the same exact opposite. Like in the above animated image.

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Now merge the two layers together so that later if you would like you can free transform them and rotate it.

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Now if you want another glowing effect Press ctrl+U and copy these settings.

You will then change your layer to the mode "soft light"

Electric Beam
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