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Five Year Anniversary free, lightning, site blog, youtube Exactly five years ago today, January 8 2007, I uploaded my first ever video tutorial to YouTube. I remember sitting down at midday and recording a tutorial looking at how to create a bolt of lightning in Photoshop CS2, and then uploading it to an old YouTube account I already had going. It took me two takes to record the entire thing, a far cry from the hours of preparation, recording, editing and presenting that my videos take nowadays.	Photoshop Video Tutorial - Lightning Effect - Lightning Text - Part 4 free, lightning, lightning text, Manipulation, merge layers, Photoshop Elements 10, screen blending mode, Special Effects, Text Effects, text tool, video tutorial After setting the mood, crafting a bolt of lightning, and generating a block of burnt text, it's now time to add the lightning effect to the text itself. To do this we'll be duplicating the original lightning bolt and getting help from a neat little clipping trick in order to confine the electricity to the inside of the font. The result is a high-voltage, action packed Utah valley a million miles away from where the original photograph was taken.	Photoshop Video Tutorial - Lightning Effect - Burnt Text - Part 3 burnt, free, grunge, lightning, Manipulation, Photoshop Elements 10, Special Effects, Text Effects, text tool, wind filter, video tutorial If we're going to be electrifying our image, what with a bolt of Lightning from the Utah sky, and pulses of electricity flowing through the text, then we'll need to make the text fit into our theme. Using the Wind filter and some multi-directional (you'll see) assistance, as well as some subtle layer styles and adjustment layers, we'll have the text smouldering in no time!
Photoshop Video Tutorial - Lightning Effect - Crafting the Bolt - Part 2 difference clouds filter, elecricity, electric, free, lightning, Manipulation, Photoshop Elements 10, Special Effects, video tutorial Most tutorials out there that demonstrate how to create a realistic lightning strike use hand-drawn custom brushes. Although this method produces great results, the brushes have to be downloaded and installed, and they're seldom free. That's why I prefer the alternative method of creating a bolt of lightning the old fashioned way - using filters, tools and a little creativity. It's also much more fun and easier than you think - when you know how!	Photoshop Video Tutorial - Lightning Effect - Setting the Mood - Part 1 free, levels command, lightning, Manipulation, multiply blend mode, Photoshop Elements 10, Special Effects, video tutorial The first video I ever created was a Lightning Effect for Photoshop CS2 users way back in 2007. 5 years later, to the day, I release an updated version for Photoshop Elements 10. Instead of just creating the lightning effect though, we start with the basics - setting the mood and tone of the image so it's ready to have a bolt of electricity zapping through the scene. Here we'll use a neat layer trick to add darkness to the cloudy sky, and levels to correct for an underexposed foreground.	Photoshop Video Tutorial - Lightning Effect difference clouds filter, elecricity, free, gradient tool, lightning, photoshop cs2, Special Effects, storm, video tutorial In this tutorial we'll look at creating a realistic lightning effect using the gradient tool and the difference clouds filter, and then blend the results into a stormy photograph taken within the beautiful scenery of Utah. The result will be a Photoshop-generated lightning strike in a real-world landscape.