How-To Make A Lightsaber in Photoshop

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How-To Make A Lightsaber in Photoshop

Monday, April 9th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

We can do anything in Photoshop nowadays from swapping people to making them disappear. When I read this technique to make a lightsaber from Star Wars, I just had to share it.

From Photoshop 911 comes this great little technique to take your Adobe to the next level:
Create the object you wish to make the light sabre. Use the Pen tool to create a simple straight path. This will provide the structure for the “light” …

Now, set a soft-edged brush to the appropriate size to be the thickness you need for the sabre.

Now, you’ll use the Stroke Path command to paint the sabre. The Stroke Path command allows you to create a paint stroke (using the current settings for your painting tools) that follows any path.

Start a new layer. When you stroke a path, the color values appear on the active layer. Make sure the layer you want is active before beginning.

1. Select the path in the Paths palette (Cmd/click or Ctrl/click).
2. Click the Stroke Path button at the bottom of the Paths palette. Each click of the Stroke Path button builds up the opacity of the stroke and in some cases makes it look thicker.

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