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Realistic lightning

Author: BlueSfear Author's URL: www.bluesfear.com More by this author

Here you will be taught how to make realistic lightning.

1. Open a new file, around 400 x 300 pixels. with a white background.

2. Now set your forground color to white and background color to black.

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3. Go to filter > render > clouds

4. Go to filter > render > difference clouds.

5. Go to image > adjust > invert

6. Go to filter > render > lighting effects and use these setting. Make sure you set texture channel to Red and put the bar all the way to mountainous.

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7. Here my final result. You can change the color of the rock by picking different colors in the lighting effects options.

Realistic lightning