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A simple lightsaber tutorial, showing the way i do lightsaber effects in Photoshop. It shows only the movie's colors, but you can tweak 'em to achieve other effects.

EDIT : More than ten thousand views! Thank you all for your comments, faves and views. Thanks, really.
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~MasNielk May 6, 2013
didnt work
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~nico89-fx May 7, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
which part? I assume the coloring process, on which most people miss the part where they have to flatten the blurred layers with the black background for color balance/curves/levels/hue saturation to work properly. If you don't, every pixel is white with a different level of opacity, if you do, they become shades of grey, and you can color correct those.
Hope that helps.
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~MasNielk May 7, 2013
oh i didnt merge it with the background because i want the lightsaber to go on another layer
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~nico89-fx May 7, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
A black background layer (as shown in the tutorial), which is additive modes' neutral color, hence it won't show up whilst still making your pixels become grey-ish. Then of course you can have your original plate in the back.
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~Agacora Mar 8, 2013  Hobbyist Writer
Cool, I use a similar technique to create my lightsaber blades.
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~Lindale-FF Feb 21, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
How would this work in GIMP? Is it fairly similar? Entirely different?
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~nico89-fx Feb 22, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
It's almost the same thing, you've got additive blending modes, color correction tools like color balance and curves, so you should have no trouble following the instructions. I suggest you give it a try. If you have any questions I'll be happy to help, but I've just tried, having almost never used gimp before in my life, and i got it to look fairly similar within a couple of minutes.
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~bigtukker Nov 21, 2012
I tend to use the rectangle tool instead. The line tool gives me weird angles...
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~nico89-fx Dec 2, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Well, yeah, rectangle tool, even the pen tool, so long as it works for you, it's just a different means to the same end.
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~Marvelfan11001001 Nov 15, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Awesome tutorial, May the force be with you.
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