Electric Effect
Written by Ray Silcox   
Sunday, 01 October 2006
Electric Effect Who doesn't like the cool electric lights seen during rainy season in the clouds. Look no further its time to make them all by ourself.

- Click here to see the video version of this tutorial.

  Open a new 500 x 500 PSD document.

  Go to Layer -> New -> Layer and press ok to make a new layer.

  Press D on your keyboard to reset your colors.
- Grab the gradient tool (alt) and apply a gradient like this:

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- Go to Filter -> Render -> Difference Clouds.

- Go to Image -> Adjustment -> Invert or press CTRL + I.

- Go to Image -> Adjustment -> Level or press CTRL + L and apply the following changes:

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- Go to Image -> Adjustment -> Hue/Saturation and apply the following settings and press ok.

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- Final result should look something like this:

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