| Ion Beams |
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7: Repeat steps 2 to 5 on the energy ball to give it a glow similar to
that present on your beam layer. When you have done this, merge
your beam and energy ball layers together.
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8: Now give your ion beam a different angle of your choice using the
Edit > Transform tools. This is all fairly simple, but make sure
your ion beam is the selected layer, or you may move the wrong layer!
Once you are happy with your beam placement, create a new layer on top of
all the others called 'explosion' or something similar. Use the
Polygon Lasso Tool to create a basic angular shape, and then Edit > Fill
the shape with white to create a very basic explosion shape.
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9: Its now time to add a little character to our basic explosion.
Lose your selection and then run Filter > Distort > Wave,
hitting randomize a couple a times
until you get a weird shape. Press OK, and immediately afterwards run Filter >
Noise > Add Noise, increasing the strength until you are left with a
speckled white (ensure monochromatic is ON). Round off
your character-building exercise with Filter > Stylize > Diffuse,
making sure the mode is set to normal. Press OK.
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10: Repeat steps 2 to 5 on the explosion to give it a glow similar to
that present on your beam layer. This time, however, DON'T FLIP YOUR LAYER
HORIZONTALLY... or you'll end up with a right mess!
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11: Duplicate the explosion layer and set the duplicate's blending mode
to color dodge. Run Filter > Distort > Wave again,
pressing randomize a few times to give your explosion a different
look than the original. Hit OK and merge both explosion layers together to
create something akin in our creation on the left.
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12: Now put the explosion layer below the beam layer, duplicate it and put
the duplicate above the beam. Set the duplicate's layer blending mode to Pin
Light and set the opacity to 75%. Merge All your beam and
explosion layers together and set the
blending mode to taste (I find the 4 coolest options are normal, color
dodge, vivid light, and screen). And that's it - You now have a
completed Ion Beam!
I will leave you at this stage, but don't forget that this effect is highly
modular, and goes well with
light
swirls,
abstract swirls, sparkles, etc. Just keep adding detail and see
what you can create!
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This tutorial was written by Andantonius. If you have any questions feel free
to E-mail him at Jneimeis@hotmail.com.
Please do not take credit for this tutorial. Thank you.
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- Tutorial written by Andantonius
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This worked excellent, got a request for a logo similar to the Halo 3 logo yesterday. Which was really new to me! And this came in very handy |
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Actually the guy is over the wall. I rammed him so hard he wen't straight over.
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Yay, truck dismount! I seriously think you wasted the truck this time though... LOL! ;) |
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Oooh, this came out really cool. I added light swirls to my beam and it looks awesome! :rolleyes:

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