Plasma Effect

Hey i wanna know how to make a plasma effect on photoshop. Like ... those things that come from behind the power puff girls when they fly. it's very bright. i wanna know how to make that effect. if anyone knows how please help.and i don't want that cheesy effect like outer glow or feathering.. i want a good quality sun-bright plasma glow.

-HT

http://www.stridingstudio.com/tutorials/exclusivetech.html
Close, but you'll need to play around a little

well, that sort of isn't what i was looking for.. i was looking more along the lines of an effect like this.

well, it looks like their site is down.. so i took away the image.

-HT

make a new layer with a lighter tone of the color, and change the blendingMode to 'dodge'. Copy the layer if you need for more effect.

Originally posted by PaavoPerkele
make a new layer with a lighter tone of the color, and change the blendingMode to 'dodge'. Copy the layer if you need for more effect.

um.. that doesn't seem to work, i tried filling a selection with red, then on a new layer, filling a smaller selecetion with orange, setting the layer blending mode to 'Color Dodge'. it just looks like the orange layer is hidden. please help me.:(

-HT

the use gaussian blur on that orange layer.

oops i messed up the message..

Originally posted by !mo0chan!
the use gaussian blur on that orange layer.

I just tried that and it did the same thing as before.. man i wish this would just work...... ><

-HT

Oh yeah, I forgot the blur. :p

It should work, hydro.. :confused:

You might want to make the new layer really bright tho.. ?
Did you try copying the new layer a couple of times?

Tutorial on Plasma/Fireballs

Dragon Ball Z blast style

well, i tried and tried and finally came up with this. there's no blending mode changes, just a few lasso's/paths, selections and guassian blurs.

^_^
hope ya like it.

-HT