PS to create super cool laser Sword effect

in the movie Star Wars, the most prominent is the "Laser Sword", in the subsequent Chinese martial arts films often appear similar to the laser sword, this example using a simple PS visual effects to complete similar to the effect of laser sword, mainly related to the filter in the Gauss fuzzy application, interested friends can try!

Method/Step

1, this tutorial using Photoshop CS5 Production, the other version of the basic general, first in PS open the original image, as shown in the following figure:

2, create a new transparent layer 1, as shown in the following figure:

3, click to select the "Rectangular marquee tool" in the common toolbar, as shown in the following figure:

4. Pull out a vertical rectangular selection in the document, as shown in the following illustration:

5, set the foreground color to white, then click to select Paint Bucket tool, as shown in the following figure:

6, use the Paint bucket tool to fill the selection into white, as shown in the following figure:

7, click the Select Menu "Filter-> fuzzy-> gaussian Blur", as shown in the following figure:

8. Set the RADIUS to 2 in the Gaussian Blur setting window, and the effect is as follows:

9. Copy layer 1 to generate "Layer 1 copy" and drag below layer 1, as shown in the following figure:

10, make sure to click the selected Layer 1 copy, and then also through the menu "filter-> blur-> Gaussian Blur" to set the radius to 8, the effect is as shown in the following figure:

11, followed by the same method of operation, the layer 1 and then copy the build Layer 1 copy 2 and placed under the Layer 1 copy, and then set the Gaussian blur radius of 14, as shown in the following figure:

12, the final copy of the generated layer 1 copy 3, set the Gaussian blur radius of 20, so after multi-layer superposition after the effect of the laser arc appears, as shown in the following figure:

13, hold down the CTRL key, select the layer 1 and all the replicas, and then right-click to select Merge layers, as shown in the following illustration:

14, the layer will be generated after the layer 1, select the menu "edit-> Transform-> Twist", appropriate to reduce the upper part, this can form a bold sword, the effect as shown in the following figure:

15, if the effect is not ideal, the application of distorted transformation can then select the menu "edit-> transform-> deformation", adjust the four vertices, make the sword more radian, as shown in the following figure:

16. After applying the transform, the layer 1 is copied and the layer 1 is created and placed below layer 1, as shown in the following figure:

17, make sure to click the selected Layer 1 copy, select Menu "Image-> adjust-> hue/saturation", as shown in the following figure:

18, in the pop-up "hue/saturation" Settings window, check the "coloring", the appropriate reduction of the degree of saturation to set to 100, and then change the hue value can be different colors of the laser sword effect, as shown in the following figure:

19, the layer 1 and Layer 1 to select together, and then click the right button to select "Link Layer", the reason is not to use the merged layer, is to later change the sword arc color, the link effect as shown in the following image:

20, to ensure that the layer 1 and Layer 1 are selected, select the menu "Edit-> Free Transform" or press ctrl+t shortcut keys for free transformation, appropriate size and angle, so that with the sword on the hands of beauty coincide, the effect shown in the following figure:

The above is the PS to create super Cool laser Sword effect tutorial, hope to be helpful to everyone!

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• PS composite Picture Tutorial