Open new canvas, 300W x 550H, 72rgb, transparent
background. Set foreground color to color you want for you
lightsaber 'glow'. Using rectangular marquee draw out a narrow
rectangular shape and fill with the color of your choice.
Don't deselect.
Step Two
Go to Select/Modify/Smooth and enter a value of 5.
Ctrl+Shift+I to invert selection and hit delete.
Don't deselect.
Step Three
Go to Filter/Blur/Gaussian Blur and enter 9 pixels.
Repeat this a few times until you feel you have sufficient 'glow' around
your saber. In this example gaussian blur was repeated 6 times.
Step Four
Do Ctrl+Shift+I. Change foreground to white and
fill selection. You can now hit Ctrl+D to deselect.. Go to
Filter/Blur/Gaussian Blur and enter a value of 2.5.
Step Five
Let's make a handle for our Lightsaber. Create a
new layer.
Select rectangular marquee and mark out a selection
approximately 200 long and 20 pixels wide. Don't deselect.
Step Six
Select elliptical marquee and holding down your shift
key, draw a selection at the base of the handle nearest your light saber.
Step Seven
Set Foreground color to AAA6A6 and background color to
black.. Select the reflected gradient and draw your gradient from
the centre of your selection out.
Step Eight
Go to Filter/Noise/Add Noise and enter value of 10.
Step Nine
Go to Filter/Blur/Motion Blur and enter the angle as -90
and distance as 15.
Step Ten
Go to Filter/Tender/Lens Flare, 105mm and place in the
center of the handle hilt nearest the lightsaber.
Step Eleven
You can, if you wish, give the handle more depth by
drawing some horizontal black lines from left to right across the handle.
Create a new layer for this, then bevel them to give inlaid effect.
If you have already done scan lines tutorial use this pattern - here could
use the rectangular marquee to mark out the selection below the curved
hilt of the handle. On a new layer go to Edit/Fill/Pattern and find
scanline pattern. Bevel and emboss.
In this example, Bevel and Emboss was set to Inner
Bevel, default settings, and gloss contour changed to half round.
That's all for now
folks ....... well not quite! It occurred to me that you might
wonder what uses your could put your lightsaber to? So I decided to
have a little fun with one I made earlier, lol. The background on
the image below comes from royalty and copyright free web collection
(providing it is used for non-commercial purposes). The two male
figures (I am certain you will recognize them), came from my sons posters.
The female ...... well, will leave you guessing on that one, lol.
