The Light saber effect for Photoshop 5.0 LE

[Johnny(UK)]

Hi all,

I noticed how much advice you were able to give the other guy. SO I was wandering, I found the Photoshop 5.0 LE disc in a old scanner box. Lucky thing as I wanted to create the Lightsaber effect. However all the tutorials are for different versions of Photoshop. SO If anyone has a link that they would like to give me with A Lightsaber tutorial for people with Photoshop 5.0 LE. Or if anyone knows how to do this and would like to share then please do!!

All reply's would be helpful.
johnnyada1@hotmail.com

I have attached the file of how my lightsaber looks as you can see it lacks a glow.

[Eddy Bones]

I don't know how well it would work, but I would try a solid color thick line down the center. Next, copy that layer. Finally, do a gaussian blur on the copied layer. Change the opacity a bit too so it's more transparent.

[edit] Actually, you would have to make the layer that you do the gaussian blur on a bit thicker than the original. Maybe twice as thick. Is this sort of what you want? (Attached)

[Johnny(UK)]

Yeah thanks thats the kind of effect I am looking for.

[will7]

Or, how about this? Lol, basically the same as the other one, but just adds a bit more variety. Feel free to use it for whatever you need!

[Talkfreelance]

That's actually a really bad light sabre example. You need to draw the line out first, then add glow effects and play with the settings, probably add some blur in as well on a duplicated layer.

[Eddy Bones]

Which one is bad? I see three of them...

[Trico]

The beam on the attached image below was essentially created with the basic technique(s) mentioned earlier. The basic shape was done with the marquee; the selection was then made into a white on black channel and duplicated a few times. The first copy was gaussian blurred by 3 pixels (or so), the second by 9, 18 etc. The channel with the smallest blur is what creates the inner tube.

This created the soft feathered glow; the new selections were used to build up layers of colour. Above layers then had their blend mode changed to pin-light (you can experiment with the others too.) I've never used PS 5.0 LE, but if pin-light isn't available you might be able to get away with 'overlay'.

I can't give you permission to use this example though, as I wasn't responsible for making the grip. It should make a useful reference though.

[Johnny(UK)]

Wow thanks a lot, I will now try and practice them

[smoseley]

Just create a shape, gauss blur it 1.0px, add a bluish/white outer glow with size=50, spread=10%, opacity=60% draw a handle and voila!

(I made the PSD smaller so it was legal file size)

[n3on]

Looking closely at screen grab of Star Wars, the actual cutting bit thingy is a gradient (the 'tube' thingy in PS) and the glow is a gaussian blurred version of the same shape but larger.