Making Your Own Light Textures - PSP translation
So 
nine_am just did this brilliant tutorial on how to Make your Own Light Textures and as I use PSP6 instead of PS, I went in to try and play around and come up with some translation, because I am a whore for light textures.
I spammedher HIS comments section with my example to anyone who asked how to do it in PSP, but figured yeah, it might be helpful to make it a full entry too.
So go readher HIS tutorial then come back here.
As you saw fromher HIS tutorial, you're going to draw on a black canvas on a new layer, distort that drawing, duplicate it, blur it, and then as he later explained in comments, flood fill the layer to get the color effect.
For PSP you'd do pretty much the same.
Create your scribbles, then head up to Image - Deformations. The two I found to be most useful are Ripple and Twirl. I also played a little with the others, but there wasn't anything I really liked (I also was operating on limited time - dinnertime). Also, using the negative numbers in Twirl produced some cool effects, so slide the little slider around until you find something you like.
Now duplicate the Twirled Layer once, and then instead of bluring the bottom layer asnine_am writes for PS users, blur the TOP layer at about 5.0 Gaussian. If you use less, you get a more pixelated look. In fact, I didn't like my first layer was so jaggy so I went back to it and did a Gaussian Blur of .5 on it. Anything more loses your sharpness of the edges and makes it a diffused glow instead of a light effect.
But it's still white, right? There were two things I tried:
1. Make a new layer and flood fill with just a regular old color. The brighter the better.
2. Grab a gradient brush or image pack and CTRL L it on top as a new layer.
Either way, once you have your color on top, change the layer blend mode to Overlay and voila. Color.
Depending on your color, you may have to Duplicate the Color Layer two or three times to get a nice bright effect. Also, try playing around with putting your pen on different pastel colors to make the original scribble. And don't forget there's Colorize up there waiting for you too, to use.
The first two examples are Flood Fill plain straight colors, the last four are the same light effect with different gradients on top.
I hope this helps out some people who were going "Damn, wish I could do that!" If anyone knows of any other Deformations to use to get a non-rounded twirly look, please comment, because we'd love you for it.
nine_am just did this brilliant tutorial on how to Make your Own Light Textures and as I use PSP6 instead of PS, I went in to try and play around and come up with some translation, because I am a whore for light textures. I spammed
So go read
As you saw from
For PSP you'd do pretty much the same.
Create your scribbles, then head up to Image - Deformations. The two I found to be most useful are Ripple and Twirl. I also played a little with the others, but there wasn't anything I really liked (I also was operating on limited time - dinnertime). Also, using the negative numbers in Twirl produced some cool effects, so slide the little slider around until you find something you like.
Now duplicate the Twirled Layer once, and then instead of bluring the bottom layer as
nine_am writes for PS users, blur the TOP layer at about 5.0 Gaussian. If you use less, you get a more pixelated look. In fact, I didn't like my first layer was so jaggy so I went back to it and did a Gaussian Blur of .5 on it. Anything more loses your sharpness of the edges and makes it a diffused glow instead of a light effect. But it's still white, right? There were two things I tried:
1. Make a new layer and flood fill with just a regular old color. The brighter the better.
2. Grab a gradient brush or image pack and CTRL L it on top as a new layer.
Either way, once you have your color on top, change the layer blend mode to Overlay and voila. Color.
Depending on your color, you may have to Duplicate the Color Layer two or three times to get a nice bright effect. Also, try playing around with putting your pen on different pastel colors to make the original scribble. And don't forget there's Colorize up there waiting for you too, to use.
The first two examples are Flood Fill plain straight colors, the last four are the same light effect with different gradients on top.
I hope this helps out some people who were going "Damn, wish I could do that!" If anyone knows of any other Deformations to use to get a non-rounded twirly look, please comment, because we'd love you for it.