How to Make Electric Effect by Photoshop

Last months I designed this poster for Thailand Othello Championship 2009 by Adobe Photoshop

Many peoples loved it. You may wonder how did I do this electric effect on this poster.
This tutorial will show you how to do...

Step 1: Create New file (Any dimension)in Adobe Photoshop and Press 'D' to reset the colors of foreground and background to default. (Black and White)

Step 2: Choose=> Filter and Then Render=>Clouds

You should get the results like this picture below:

Step 3: Now Click on=> Filter and Then Render=>Difference Clouds

The results:

Step 4: Press CTRL+I to invert the color

The results:

Step 5: Press CTRL+L and move the middle arrow to the right.

Step 6: Adjust the color by press CTRL+U (Don't forget to tick on Colorize), You can change to your prefer colors. (for this example, I change to Blue.)

Step 7: After you have satisfy the color of your electric effect, then Save to PSD format.
For now, You are finish creating electric effect.

Step 8: And When You wanna use it...

• Open your electric file.


• Delete Black color from your electric effect(For doing this choose=>Select=>Color Range...=>Click on Black color and Press Delete button)


• At your electric layer's Blending Mode: Choose Screen


• Drag and Drop it to the picture which you wanna put this effect on.


• Adjust it until you satisfy with the result


• Finish

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