Photoshop Tutorial: How to Make Lightning! -HD-

[SpikeballUnion]

When I do the gradient thing, I do exactly as is told, but when I click Difference Clouds, it just inverts the gradient. I don't see any cloud effect. Please help! Thanks.

[kornfan95336]

I'd really like a Pixlr tutorial on this. But this is really cool.

[juliana86319]

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[DezzBrah]

Im new to Photoshop and I can not get the 2nd layer below the background?How do you do it.

[cawimmer430]

@DezzBrah

You need to double click on BACKGROUND and when the pop-up window comes click enter to turn it into a LAYER. Only if your BACKGROUND becomes a LAYER can you move layers around (over or under each other). When your BACKGROUND is a BACKGROUND, it's basically locked in terms of layer movement. Hope this makes sense. English isn't my first language.

[electricvoltstudios]

I'm recreating this in Gimp.

[cawimmer430]

Good tutorial. However, certain things in Photoshop suck like shit and the lens flare and difference cloud tools are two of them. When I press CTRL + F in order to keep getting different cloud results, I never get anything close to a lightning look. And there's sadly no finer control options for the difference clouds effect. Photoshop is a great program, however, as a constant user of the program I feel there is always room for more improvement.

[TehGIGAgamer]

@cawimmer430 Use an image ratio of 1:5 (width 1 : length 5) to get a more straighter lightning, and then use a new image to combine a few of those together to a lightning strike like in this turorial. Else, take a look at my tutorial, maybe it can help you.

[cawimmer430]

@TehGIGAgamer

Hi, I figured that out about a minute after posting my response here. Kind of sucks that I had to resize the image I was working on to get the effect I wanted. Thanks for the info, though.

[Sn1pezzz96]

jesus fcking christ your awesome high def video is just awesome looks like im looking to my own screen :O

[jobo9173]

at 2:06 when i hit alt + del. mine is color white and yours is black, butta how can i change it to black??

[ourdynamix]

why dont you just get the free brush?

[xHaZeo]

@ourdynamix What Brush is it?

[nootrak123]

thanks bro your awesome!

[sumon1119]

great man thank you very much ,you are a great learner

[joeschmo10155]

i cant get the layer below the background

[iSuperNovaX70]

awesome bro!

[keesso9]

i cant get the cloud a effect when i click contrating clouds

[ThePhotory]

Tip: use adjustment layers to make the light and keep them at the top in the layer bar and you dont need to fic the colours everytime you make a new lightning

[HBGAN]

thanks! a very helpful tutorial!

[NCSsniper13]

sound like a muppet lol

[silanto]

@BlackFunnyjunk You'll have to change the colours at the bottom left (I don't know what you call them) to black and white. This will then let the cloud appear as black and white. :)

[Jaehyeko]

Lol ours where opposite mine came out light at first then I inverted it and at came out dark.

[skarekrow98]

when i try to go to hue and satiration it is light gray and ive restarted this like ten times doing everything you do what did i do wrong i have cs5

[DevourzV2]

this work with cs3??

[thugangel150]

wow dude ok 1st of all instead of going to the image panel u could have used the shortcuts... and secondly u can just grab any brush with eraser and set the hardness to zero.... if you really wanna know how to make lightning ill show you... but other than that good tut...

[dheerajdon007]

man i use to think.. its tough to create Lighting effect.. but b honest today it seems like.. very simple.. thanks form posting :D

[MrDiscovery434]

Can you make this on transparent layer

[93eliteclan]

u can do at this way or just download lighting brush :D

[vRazii]

it would be nice to know what the dimensions ARE! dickhead

[Smubbs]

@vRazii

it doesnt fucking matter

[juanangelespinosa]

Thanks. I learned a lot of things seeing your tutorials. Regards fron Mexico City.

[juanangelespinosa]

Thanks. I learn a lot of things seeing your tutorials. Regards from Mexico City.

[Y0mAMa5957]

awesome tutorial :D

[Kelvin702]

lol this awesome, but I'm kinda lazy i usually just use a lightning preset brush and create glow effects hahah.

[mybrainbrokeouch]

Great vid, thanks for posting!

[blackomen100]

when i do difference clouds it just flips the gradient around O_o

[ZenithxSinead]

How do i Use this in another picture?? Please help

[oOMaGMaHOo]

I go to invert and it doesn't allow me to, any idea why?

[CometSnipin]

when i try to put the differnece clouds on it doesnt come up like urs????

[Joker51198]

Aaa can i doo this in cs 05?

[poly359]

@Joker51198 Yes i Just did it in CS5 Extended

[JTIetallica]

you sound like kermit the frog LOl

[Cocofanny04]

Great tutorial...will subscribe to learn more, thanks for sharing!! Where do we subscribe?

[Cocofanny04]

Great tutorial...will subscribe to learn more, thanks for sharing!!

[MrSuperMarijuana]

My gredient isn't straight gredient so when i do those clouds i don't get lighithing thunder it's more like some explosion. help pls

[Godsmack575]

Question. I have PS CS5 and when I put the gradient straight across and then goto difference clouds it just reverses my gradient to where white is on the left and black on the right. Whats wrong with my PS?

[CharmCityDefense92]

You should have used to burn tool instead of using the eraser to erase the parts of the lightning you didn't want.

[Videomeister19]

look at my youtube channel down the right corner of the screen :P

[BurpAtTheMoon]

Epic Awsome!

I used custom made Brushes to create lightning effects, but this is mor professional!

[SpiritWolf1997]

I did the gradient, then the difference clouds, then I cant find the Adjustments --> Levels..

I use PhotoShop Elements 6.0 (and I dont know if Elements has all the similar thingies as your PS)

[dragon10y]

I cant do the invert part -.-why not ?:(

[Sk8Bros11]

cool



[dienesalex]

that's a pretty tangled lightning... not necessary realistic

[tobbizzz50]

When i press ´´Render´´--> ´´Different clouds´´ I get something that don´t really looks like a lightning :S and i´ve done it all right :/ please help me..

[dienesalex]

@tobbizzz50 that happens to me to!!!

[evil2812]

works on CS5??

[blurrychix20]

thank god im a cs3 user

[TheLolilol321]

Not working with CS5

[ShawnPaw100]

this is aswome but i have a question. the background of this is black............but what do u do it you want to put lightning in a pic???

[RiverCityGraphix]

@ShawnPaw100 You would merge the layers and put the blend mode on screen. My fireworks tutorial uses the same process if you are confused.

[maclover6]

@RiverCityGraphix Or without any background;

Create your lightning without colorizing it, make the next sparkle etc.. all without colorizing.

When you have the shape you want, select all the layers (right bottom) and right click->merge.

When that's done, go to channels, select the red channel, duplicate it. Go back to the layers tab and highlight the layer.

Go to select, load selection and chose red copy from the drop down box

Go to select, invert selection and press cmd+x or ctrl+x

Maclover

[djamiljo93]

u hav to use a layer mask. May be there is an other way but i use this one

[TehGIGAgamer]

@ShawnPaw100 Click select -> color range, click on the black part of the image with lightning, click ok, click edit -> cut, and just drag the lightning to the other picture. Hope it helped!

[Magyoku]

Cool it work's nice dude you rock !

[thejtphotograph]

I am so very new to CS5, and I am following your video to do this lightning effects. After I chose different clouds, and go to image - adjustment- then suppose to be INVERT...but why the INVERT is grey out? Can you tell me what happen to it.

[dontanates]

nice video!!!

[Barnacle392]

Thanks for the video. Pretty cool.

[FreeAgent205674]

YOU ARE A BITCH!

There will never be a stupid lightning in those clouds!

[thepivotfan]

wrkoing?

[TheLolilol321]

@thepivotfan Nope

[AgentDaniPlayer]

THANKS!!!

[fuckenfukedyfuck]

Thanks''

[blockers006]

in time 0:43 what did you press??,,, i cant read it... and in my photoshop its, when i press that word(i dont think if the one i press is the exact word)its not working... what is that word???... =))

[RiverCityGraphix]

@blockers006

Image>Adjustments>Invert. If you are having trouble seeing the video, watch it in a higher quality and put it on full screen.

[ghjgdjgyd]

@RiverCityGraphix yo how i make a video response? so i can show to you wut i made with ur tutorial

[RiverCityGraphix]

@ghjgdjgyd Well, you can use a screen recorder to make a video of it. You could also post an image on my website. I'd love to see what you made.

[xButterflyAngel]

thanks

[Inkognitohaloramics]

Thank you =)

[DazzleFreak]

Why does my lightning seem to have a blue vs red glow in it?

[FreeBoy010]

nice i rated 5 stars :D

[troskunietis]

why to me doesnt work diffrent clouds?

[attmab]

thats cool) nice tutorial)

[cavsfan1031]

does it mess up ur computer, and how much is it?

[brandonjamesbarnes]

noone buys photoshop... if u did already ur lame.

[cavsfan1031]

i didnt soo, im not

[brandonjamesbarnes]

good

[cerberusiscool]

Why not? :\

I already bought it, but it came along with my tablet -.0

[WillSmithy2567]

@brandonjamesbarnes your an idiot.

[brandonjamesbarnes]

yeah you are.

[WillSmithy2567]

@brandonjamesbarnes No your the one your statement earlier was stupid. " No one buys photoshop" Obviously you have no idea how big the industry for that product is so please come with facts instead of spitting off your mouth.

[brandonjamesbarnes]

Your the one who fails to realize it is a joke, IDIOT. Don't even make one more comment, you just make your self so stupid...

[WillSmithy2567]

@brandonjamesbarnes right...... Really man your the one still making yourself stupid and don't even respond to my comment because your just going to prove my point that your spouting out your mouth.

[brandonjamesbarnes]

@WillSmithy2567 Why are you still commenting. this has fking PASSED! OMFG... Just let it go. Your not right, Im not right? Happy?

[WillSmithy2567]

@brandonjamesbarnes yep I am now!

[MegaMichkel]

awesome man :D

[TheBestGtaIVPlayer]

its Not HD LOOOL!

OK Great Video Man! Thanks :)

[tender121995]

I seeeeeee

[SpellcasterSid]

Dude okay - At the start of the vid <3... Your voice is damn hell clear... your explaination was clear.. you rock.. you are pro... Conclusion - Instant sub 5/5.

[Jehuzits]

Ok I am using CS3 just to let you know.. did everything you said... but after I used the gradient and difference clouds.. I don't get the lightning type shape... just some weird bubbly ocean shape

[j4ch0w]

Perfect

[weirdnmanical]

AWESOME! 5/5

[pizzaboy2311]

thanks man

[sch0RAM]

thanks man nice tut subscribed :)

[Doter94]

Super!!!!

[scarclawwindclan]

ignore what powerlarent said. i really liked the way the lighting came out and 1 tip for all the people who dis other people,  if you don't have that many subs or friends it probably because of your attitude i am not trying to be mean but i AM trying to help. i liked the video.

[pivotanimator09]

HMMM u oviously must be some gu who this tut didnt work (even though its so simple an easy) and thinks hmmm this is shit dude this si a grate tut man.....

[Ghostly2637]

thank you

[Insomnium555]

you can go to curves not to levels is more realistic effect

[Insomnium555]

Nice one!

[OoOalistairOoO]

It will not let me do hue/saturation

Please help me!

[MaliciousInk]

Use "Color Balance."

[tashtanbelora]

its probabbly because u r not using full version of Ps

[PIPHANSDK]

my layer wont get down when i move it down ?

[iliketobuystuff]

something he forgot to mention is that you have to start the whole thing in a new layer, not the background.

[PS3FranFc]

ok, wen i try to go to hue/saturation its grey so i cant click on it? how can i fix it, its anoyin me

[niick1111]

u have to select the layer by clicking on the layer u want to change

[PS3FranFc]

my cs3 looks difrent? is it because i have trial version an urs is full time?

[niick1111]

and no u can change the set up

i think he has cs2 also :D

i like cs3 better than cs4 and i get ALL my stuff free like sony vegas and photoshop

[dcent2]

from where??

[niick1111]

from illegal land

[theflamingpanda]

mininova

[ratgreen]

cool tut, but when ever i do it it always comes out in patches, you always seem to get 1 main line, i get lots of random circle shapes

[hakapula]

Coo