Request For Lightning Tutorial

[sarge657]

Does anyone know how to make good lightning in Paint.Net? I need to make purple-ish lightning/thunder for a sig and i am kind of stumped . Any suggestions?

(I used the search)

[BoltBait]

Why not just GIS a nice picture and use that?

[D3z]

We actually have far too many lightning tuts :shock:

But this is the way I do it (from a tut):

1: create a linear gradient wit one control point at the top and bottom

2: Render clouds with a blend mode of difference

3: Invert the colours

4:go to adjustments -> levels and on the right side, there should be 3 evenly spaced slides, put the middle one right at the bottom

5: Go to adjustments -> Curves and remove all but the tick of the color you want as a base.

6: move the curve till you have your preffered color of Lightning (just move it a bit up a bit about 45 degrees)

Does that help?

[sarge657]

Why not just GIS a nice picture and use that?

too hard to render. if i wanted to take my time i could do it, but i just want a quick job.

thank you for the mini-tut.

EDIT: yes, the tutorial helped a lot. i got exactly what i wanted

[D3z]

Ok but dont tthank me, thank europe (who wrote the actual tutorial to be foundhere)