I Just Found This Guys Lightning/Tornado Effect Tutorial Like My Signature 
All Credit Goes To: Aran
Adobe Photoshop - lightning Effect
ok guys in this tuorial we will make an image like this
http://www.absolutehype.com/forums/uplo ... _thumb.jpg
This is another quite long one so ill put the points in short
01. Open up a blank document around 500x500.
02. Set foreground color to black and background color to white if they aren't already.
03. Go to Filter -> Render -> Clouds.
04. Go to Filter -> Render -> Difference Clouds.
05. Invert the layer. [ CTRL + I ]
06. Go to Image -> Adjustments -> Levels. [ CTRL + L ]
07. Set the levels to these:
http://www.absolutehype.com/forums/uplo ... _thumb.jpg
08. By now you should have something that looks like this:
http://www.absolutehype.com/forums/uplo ... _thumb.jpg
09. Duplicate this layer 3 times. [CTRL + J ] x3
10. Click on the second layer and go to Filter -> Sketch -> Chrome.
11. Set the settings to these:
http://www.absolutehype.com/forums/uplo ... _thumb.jpg
12. Change the chrome layer mode to Overlay.
13. Change the 3rd layer's mode to Lighten.
14. And change the 4th layer's mode to overlay.
Doesn't look to good, huh?
Just mess around with the Hue/Saturation in each layer until you get some thing you are happy with. Don't forgot to have Colorize checked.
15. Click on your first layer again and go to Filter -> Distort -> Twirl.
16. Set the settings to the following:
http://www.absolutehype.com/forums/uplo ... _thumb.jpg
17. Go to Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Brightness/Contrast and set it to the following:
Brightness - -25
Contrast - +25
And you're done, here's what I came up with (also guys put wat u came up with)
http://www.absolutehype.com/forums/uplo ... _thumb.jpg
All Credit Goes To: Aran
Adobe Photoshop - lightning Effect
ok guys in this tuorial we will make an image like this
http://www.absolutehype.com/forums/uplo ... _thumb.jpg
This is another quite long one so ill put the points in short
01. Open up a blank document around 500x500.
02. Set foreground color to black and background color to white if they aren't already.
03. Go to Filter -> Render -> Clouds.
04. Go to Filter -> Render -> Difference Clouds.
05. Invert the layer. [ CTRL + I ]
06. Go to Image -> Adjustments -> Levels. [ CTRL + L ]
07. Set the levels to these:
http://www.absolutehype.com/forums/uplo ... _thumb.jpg
08. By now you should have something that looks like this:
http://www.absolutehype.com/forums/uplo ... _thumb.jpg
09. Duplicate this layer 3 times. [CTRL + J ] x3
10. Click on the second layer and go to Filter -> Sketch -> Chrome.
11. Set the settings to these:
http://www.absolutehype.com/forums/uplo ... _thumb.jpg
12. Change the chrome layer mode to Overlay.
13. Change the 3rd layer's mode to Lighten.
14. And change the 4th layer's mode to overlay.
Doesn't look to good, huh?
Just mess around with the Hue/Saturation in each layer until you get some thing you are happy with. Don't forgot to have Colorize checked.
15. Click on your first layer again and go to Filter -> Distort -> Twirl.
16. Set the settings to the following:
http://www.absolutehype.com/forums/uplo ... _thumb.jpg
17. Go to Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Brightness/Contrast and set it to the following:
Brightness - -25
Contrast - +25
And you're done, here's what I came up with (also guys put wat u came up with)
http://www.absolutehype.com/forums/uplo ... _thumb.jpg
