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nico89-fx — Lightsaber tutorial
Published: 2007-05-05 20:24:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 90382; Favourites: 904; Downloads: 4771
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A simple lightsaber tutorial, showing the way i do lightsaber effects in Photoshop. It shows only the movie's colors, but you can tweak 'em to achieve other effects.EDIT : More than ten thousand views! Thank you all for your comments, faves and views. Thanks, really.
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im working on a graphic novel and this will help alot
thank you
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no problem.. glad I could help
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ill let you know when its doned (that might be a while sense its my first one lol)
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please do.. i'd like to see it..
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Wow, I Just Got Referenced To This, And My Past Trials With Making Lightsabers Have Not Been Pleasing, But This One Actually Worked.
I Just Need To Ask How You "Round" The Tips.
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Hey there.. glad u found my tut useful.. in fact, not being satisfied by any other options around here is what drove me into making this one myself..
As for rounding the tips, I usually create the basic shape using the pen tool, creating four nodes and adding a fifth in between the ones on the tip, drag it upwards a little and make it bezier.. just a little, so that it doesn't look straight but neither completely semi-circular, more like the tip of a steel sword.. i take it you know how 2 use the pen tool?
i hope i helped you out.. should you have any further questions please ask, it is no problem..
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Actually, I'm Not Too Advanced With Photoshop, So I Have No Idea How To Use The Pen Tool. I Never Actually Needed It Until Now.
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Well it's a pretty handy tool.. it creates vectorial shapes (as the ones in illustrator) and then they get rasterized..
I don't know how 2 explain u other than tell you to play around with it for a little.. you may find alt-clicking while clicking on one of the points you create with it and dragging makes for curved lines.. i think there must be a tutorial around here regarding that stuff.. i'd make a little one 4 you.. but unfortunately i don't have the time right now as i am on a freaking deadline..
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That's Alright, Thanks. I'll Just Play Around With It For While Until I Get The Hang Of It.
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Thanks! Glad u liked it
c u around..
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Awesome! I used it on this photo for instawin: [link]
Thanks!
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This is very good. I might follow this tutorial one day...
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Thanks!! Glad u liked it..
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Very nice tutorial! Now my lightsabers will look 100% better! Thx so much for this!
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thanks 4 commenting!! Glad u found my tut useful, btw.. see ya
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Already knew how to do this, but I think this is the better of the LS tuts on here. Shame it's not higher on the browse results.
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well, yeah, i tried to get a different look than most around here, going on the easier path of putting some outer glows and stuff which don't really take the properties of light into an object such as, well.. a LIGHT saber.. if you know what I mean 
btw, thanks 4 ur kind words..
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Coooool, my thanks even from beyond the grave !!!
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And thanks a lot for the FAV!! My first one yet!
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I used this to edit a lightsaber model i made and i linked to your tutorial in my page
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I've just now logged in to dA and saw your comments.. sorry I didn't reply any sooner, but i was kinda busy.. The saber looks awesome! I love seeing people accomplish things with such simple steps which make glowing stuff look cool instead of simple outer glows.. Very nice Modeling BTW..
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Haha, please, no need to be sorry about anything. Im really glad you liked my saber model! Thanks for the comments!
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Thank you very much for this simple yet very effective tutorial! Helped me out a lot
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For the red one, I adjusted the 'shadow' by +50 as well; it made it redder, more like the ones in the films.
Great turorial!
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yeah.. i know it's the one that tends to look less like the colour it's supossed to be.. I sometimes give it a little magenta to make it brighter, as the shadows make them look a little flat. but all this is relative, maybe in a particular shot you need to have some "overdone" colours for it to show up (as in light backgrounds) Anyway, this is meant to be used as you did, adding your own personal touch.. so i'm really glad u liked it & found it useful..
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Awesome method, very nice. I've been playing with other styles for a RP saber blade that isn't standard jedi-make, but I think this is by far simpler and I'mma have to use what works XD
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thanks.. glad u liked it and found some use to it.. lemme know when ur done with it.. i'd like to see the results
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i've used this tutorial to make all of my glow effects on my logo. its been a huge help
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oh, glad it proved useful..
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Nice tutorial.... now if I could just find a good hilt one
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for photoshop? think it's gonna be a little complicated.. there are some around.. but the results look so crappy.. I'm sure I saw a tutorial on how to build obi wan's lightsaber in 3d studio.. but that's another subject.. wish u luck in ur search.. glad ya liked my tut!
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I was afraid of that... I haven't exactly found a 3d modeling software I can use yet.... Do you happen to have a link to that tutorial?
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You may try Gmax, which is a freeware version of 3d Studio MAX, a professional's choice, yet expensive and complex.. anyway the freeware is way easier.. check it out here: [link]
as for the tut, i haven't found the one i mentioned.. but i found some basic ones that might help you understand de basic steps..
check this out! [link]
and this
[link]
hope you find em useful.. if not i'll try and find you that one..
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Thanks, I appreciate it. I uh.... 'found' 3d studio on my computer 
I'll be sure to look for that tutorial and thanks for providing me with the ones you did.
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You're welcome, it was a pleasure being able to help you.. glad you ermm.. found 3d studio.. you know, i always find the softwares i need in my hardrive.. they just pop up from nowhere..
hope you are more lucky than i am with 3d modelling
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Funny how that stuff works. Yeah it's a bit... complicated, but i'm workin.
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yeah.. sort of freaked me out when i first used it.. i messed everything up.. luckily I dont really use it that much.. After Fx workflow is a lot more straightforward..
i wish you luck with it.. lemme know when you come up with something interesting
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Alright thanks again for your help.
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I actually need some help getting it set up, it's telling me there's some kind of error when I attempt to load the app. My AIM sn is aronthearab135 and my YIM is stratsrock135, please IM me if you can help.
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i like ryan wieber's video tutorial better. But this is good. Gj
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course a video tut's gonna be better.. anyway i aint great fan of ryan's method for photoshop.. course i love his aFX techniques.. anyway.. thnx for ur comment!
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OMG thank you, but I have a question, you know how to do silver or Yellow?
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for yellow, you should put the midtones slider for yellow to -100 and the hightlights of yellow between -50 and -100.. of course it's personal preference.. since the yellow sabers are Expanded Universe one's, we don't know exactly how they look.. but that's what you gotta do for them to look really yellow.. if you want a bit more of an orange hue, try the green and red sliders for midtones and highlights, not very high values..
according to the silver one.. i suppose you mean the Kotor like saber.. it's the only one like that i've ever seen.. it's just the same as any other, excepting that it's not color balanced, or it's color balanced using very low values for every midtone and highlight slider..
if you've got any troubles with this, just tell me.. hope you get the results you want..
NICO
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