I just had to do it.

[Steve Taylor]

With the new Star wars movie being out I had to do this.

[OhThatGirl2001]

That's great Steve,

Now tell us how you did it!!! I love it.

Lisa

[Ed_L]

I'm probably one of the few people who isn't a Star Wars fan. But the IMAGE is great. Love it.

Ed

[Steve Taylor]

Originally posted by OhThatGirl2001

Now tell us how you did it!!! I love it.

Lisa

Thanks....Well first of all I wasn't holding anything in the picture at all. I looked on the net and found the picture below, removed it from the background, removed the beam and scaled it down to size on its own layer.

Once I had the handle moved into position, I reduced the opacity of the handle layer and began erasing parts of the handle where my hand needed to be. Once staisfied I returned that layer back to 100% opacity.

Now for the beam, on another layer I used the line tool with the foreground color set to the lightest possible shade of red I could get (almost white). Rasterized that layer and moved the beam into place. On the beam layer I went into the blending options and set the inner glow and outer glow for these I used more of a deeper red color and played around with the choke and spread settings unti I got what I wanted.

[Steve Taylor]

Oh yeah one more thing, a small lens flare at the base of the beam.

Steve

[DJ Dubovsky]

Now every Star Wars episode I've ever seen, it's the bad guy that weilds the red light sabre. Are you trying to tell us something Steve??? That and sporting a Harley biker shirt. Hmmmm. Looks like we got one tough hombre among us.

All humor aside, excellent neon light effect and you're right, the glow at the base adds a cool realism to it.
DJ

[Jakaleena]

Very cool, Steve!

I remember the first Star Wars episode in 1977. I stood in line for 3 hours, on a first date with a boy that I had a serious crush on.

(In case CJ is around here, it was at the Cine Capri in Phoenix - what a great theater that was!)

I still love Star Wars stuff.

Oh, and I like Harley's too - I used to ride a bike... My heart just stops every time I hear one of those puppies...

[G. Couch]

LOL! The Harley Jedi! ...great image

[Steve Taylor]

Originally posted by Jakaleena
Oh, and I like Harley's too - I used to ride a bike... My heart just stops every time I hear one of those puppies...

I had one. I got rid of it back in October. I liked it and all, but found I was having a better time just being a Dad. I seldom ever rode it once my daughterwas born in August of 2000

[Mig]

I just had to do it too

First off, cool image. I really enjoy seeing people work out these kinds of things. Honest. Good job.
Now, here's the funny thing - I dl'd the image and ran it thru a series of distortion filters and after a couple series here's what popped up Strangest thing...

[Steve Taylor]

Originally posted by Mig
[B]here's what popped up Strangest thing...

I'd never leave the house....enough said.

[T Paul]

Steve,

What a great photo! You did an outstanding job adding the light sabre. I would have least thought you just added the glow to an existing sabre, but was impressed to learn that you added the entire sabre. Way Cool!

-T

[Steve Taylor]

Originally posted by T Paul
Steve,

What a great photo! You did an outstanding job adding the light sabre. I would have least thought you just added the glow to an existing sabre, but was impressed to learn that you added the entire sabre. Way Cool!

-T

Thanks,

The fact that this photo was taken with the end reasult in mind made it much easier. Look at the original and you will see.

Steve

[Steve Taylor]

Originally posted by Steve Taylor


Thanks,

end reasult

I really do now how to spell guys.

[Ed_L]

I do that at times. Other times it's the real thing.

Ed