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So, here's a tutorial for making the unicorn's glow seen in the show using Photoshop in a fully vectorized way. This is based on the Unicorn horn glow tutorial for Inkscape made by Go check out his stuff!
If you see any mistakes, grammar errors and whatnot, please report them to me in the comments. Also, sorry for the pretty poor quality of the images included. The limited screen resolution took it's toll on them when taking the screenshots.
EDIT 3/11/2013: sta.sh/0n85pwmb54m Here's an example of the Photoshop CS6 version of this tutorial with a few mentions about the changes in steps. dA automatically creates a preview for the .PSD file on that link in case you don't want to download the example and just want to read the text.
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Original tutorial for Inskcape and the Twilight Sparkle Vector belong to *ZuTheSkunk Tom Vector belongs to ~AxemGR Sunglasses Vector belongs to *Alexstrazse My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic belongs to Lauren Faust , DHX Media Vancouver, Hasbro and Top Draw Studios;
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Comments: 85
With a few slight changes to the process, this method works great on GIMP. Thanks for the tutorial!
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Great to hear that it can be adapted for GIMP as well. As far as I'm aware, GIMP can't produce vector graphics though.
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Well, I'm not sure about all the tools you use to make vector graphics in Photoshop, but Gimp's "Paths" tool can be used for most of the same purposes as Photoshop's "Pen" tool. Or is that not what you meant?
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I haven't used GIMP in a long while so I'm not sure of the state it's in now, but using paths doesn't necessarily mean vectoring. Photoshop and SAI can use simple paths too, but that doesn't mean those are vectors, only using shape layers (in Photoshop) creates a vector image in the end. I'm really not the best to explain this, you might want to ask some of the people at #MLP-VectorClub for a more satisfying answer.
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interesting, well tyvm.
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Oooh! you use also GIMP?
could you explain to me how to do it in GIMP?
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Uh, sure, I can try. How far along are you?
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I. Know enough about the tools
I only don't known how to make a glow
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Unfortunately, I have CS3 and don't enjoy a mask window, but a little improvisation made up for that. This was a huge help in adding magic effects to my comic and I think it looks stronger thanks to your tutorial. Great job!
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I'm glad you found it helpful even if only part of it worked for you. It turned out quite well I see.
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I guess I can use this once I get around to vectoring Twilight or Rarity!
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I'm working in CS2, which has no Masks panel. Does anyone know of a workaround?
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Well, there is a workaround. If you rasterize the layer, you can use Filters>Gaussian blur (CS2 probably has it) to obtain the same effect. This, however, means that you lose the ability to directly edit the shape of that layer, and you won't be able to resize or distort it without losing quality. If you don't really have to edit it after you blur, it should look fine though.
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Thank you, I'll take a look
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Excellent tutorial, i'm trying it right now for my OC
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Let me know how it goes.
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Oooh she looks great! Nice work.
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Awesome guide. While not my usual method, this is pretty handy!
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Wow, it's more than just outer & inner glow. That's good, just like from the show.
And whoops, crushed by Tom.
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I know, Zu's method was just awesome, that's why I wanted to try convering it to PS.
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I'm a Photoshop user too, overall, if I were doing it, usually I use Filters. But the stars, have to manually do it right and then later replicate the layers and join them together when done.
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I initially did the glow in a similar way with blurring, but I wanted to find a way to it with a fully resizable vector. I think the feathered mask is the best bet(as far as I'm concerned) even if it takes a bit longer to pull off.
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Layer filters will do the job but will need to change it manually from time to time. Sometimes too much blur is bad when you shrink it down to size. Illustrator's filters is even worse, they don't blur well and it's usually not recommended, so everything must be done through Photoshop if you want filtering.
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