Lightsaber Effect in Photoshop Tutorial

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In celebration of Star Wars Day, here is a short tutorial on how to create a lightsaber effect in Photoshop. This is actually one of the first tricks I was taught in Photoshop and despite a whole lot of new features and upgrades in Photoshop over the last 15 years, this is still my preferred method for creating a lightsaber!
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[@NellyMandelli]

love how thorough you are cause most poeple just say do that but never how to do it which leads me having to rewind 20 times and trying to figure it out

[@lindabrooks8619]

Great tutorial enjoyed doing this thank you.

[@princetadzio]

Thank you for making this! Very helpful

[@melodyguice4422]

Thank you so much this is so good I have Great Grandsons and I am going to use this to see what I can come up with. so glad I found you Melody

[@kandicemeyer9571]

I like this technique, thank you for sharing it!

[@trevormather8987]

Hi Rikard, thanks for another awesome tutorial. Could you please do a tutorial on how to do the jet booster effect from a spaceship like an X wing? Thank you

[@AJPortfolio11]

Legend 🙌🏼

[@DreamBattery]

Hi Rikard Rodin Love, your Photoshop work.

[@masseylad1972]

Awesome. Cheers m8

[@solutionghostsimple6470]

Thx this was very helpful

[@alexc81994]

thanks dude

[@richardmendoza4389]

I just applied this technique via your "orb" tutorial & I really love the look. (Even made a shortcut key for the gaussian blur, like you recommended). Thanks for sharing this technique!

[@nuclylearn]

Nice. You can also turn the whole thing into an action so that it requires a single button click.

[@richardmendoza4389]

@@nuclylearn How would I be able to create an action that would allow me the flexibility to change the glow's color?

[@nuclylearn]

@@richardmendoza4389 add a dialog box to the hue/saturation step of the action. Then, when you run the action, it will wait for your input before continuing. Alternately, in the action, apply the hue/saturation as an adjustment layer, clipped to your glow. Then you'll be able to adjust it after the fact.

[@richardmendoza4389]

@@nuclylearn Great advice. Will try it out to see how I do. Thanks again!

[@richardmendoza4389]

@@nuclylearn one-click action: mission accomplished! (may still need a little tweaking, but, for the most part, one [click] & done!)

[@chrisaga6253]

Starts at 1:15

[@martinddudypicture7737]

Top Job! Thank you!

[@ShannaRose]

when i do this i get kind of a “boxy” glow around my lightsaber, like you can see a straight line when the glow stops, do you know how to fix it?

[@nuclylearn]

If it's banding, changing your image to 16-bit and adding a little bit of noise to your background should solve it.

[@NormaKarmelk]

Awsome!

[@bullkotten3285]

Darth Vaders lightsaber gone jedi

[@martinedwards3082]

nice technique

[@hopewin7891]

Your site is down. 502 Bad Gateway

[@nuclylearn]

Thanks for the heads up. The site is up now.

[@swashy8933]

what about the bit at the bottom

[@nuclylearn]

That's a light leak put on the screen blending mode. You can check out my set here: www.nucly.com/Bokeh-and-Light-Leaks-Brushes-and-Overlays