GIMP 2.3 Tutorial - Lightning

In this tutorial you will learn the basics of how to create a nice lightning effect. Once you know the basics, you can easily experiment to create different kinds of lightning.

This tutorial was created using bleeding edge GIMP, Cinelerra, recordmydesktop, and ffmpeg code, from CVS and SVN repositories on the Ubuntu linux distribution (version 6.10)

Thanks to Bert Monroy for his Photoshop lightning tutorial.

Any comments or questions are very welcomed!

Feel free to spread the video in YouTube-embedded format as much as you like.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• gimp
• tutorial
• lightning
• ubuntu

[skilltestingquestion]

what version is this?

[Enselic]

@skilltestingquestion Guess

[evelfa]

i love all you people who have the patience to do all these tutorials!

[Enselic]

And I love you for not having a user name with numbers in it like most people ;) Long live orginality

[evelfa]

yes originality is the best. Now that I've thought about it nd practised the lightning effect i do have one question, how do you get the lightning effect on transparency? so u can put it over another picture?

[Enselic]

Put it on another image and use the Multiply layer mode.

[coltonapo18]

maximum hardness!!

[coolmoviewatcher]

I like it, but you should make another one with Gimp 2.6 (current version)

[MzducK1972]

:D hooray~! tank kyu~!

[bioLightbulb]

Thanks man! You really helped me with my school's yearbook!

[ManofWario]

@skilltestingquestion

are you THAT stupid? look at the title!

[DemonFoxSlayer3]

@skilltestingquestion It's in the Title.

[themadpoet]

This is an AWESOME tutorial! Had to create lightning in a pinch and this saved me tons of time... thanks!

[6441007]

glad this still looks good in 2.6...

[shawnmichalsHBK]

@skilltestingquestion read the tittle lol

[DieUhReUh]

"maximum hardness" 

thats what she said

[musicgurl11197]

@Enselic lol