Make lightning using paint.net
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Here is a quick and simple method for making lightning using the freeware Paint.NET program
Contents
Creating Lightning Using Paint.NET
- Create a new image 800 x 600 at 72 dpi
- Using the marque selection tool select the left half of the image
- Press the D key to set the foreground and background colors to black and white
- Fill the selection with black by pressing the backspace key
- Deselect all by pressing CTRL+D
- Apply Gausuan Blur Apply by menu/Effects/Blurs/Gausian Blur...
- Set the raduis of the blur to about 75
- Apply Clouds filter by menu/Effects/Render/Clouds...
- In the Clouds dialog box set the following
- Scale to about 276
- Roughness to about .46
- Blend Mode to Negation
- Adjust levels to remove extraneus clouds
- Apply Sepia Filter by menu/Adjustments/Sepia
- Using Hue/Saturation to colorize the lightning
- Set the Hue to about -125
- Saturation to 200
- and Lightness to 0
The final Image
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See Also
- How to Make lightning using photoshop
- How to Make 3d images
- How to Make fire text using photoshop
External Links
- www.getpaint.net Free Software for Digital Photo Editing