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In this tutorial, you will learn how to make a somewhat techy Radio Signal looking thingy..;) dont i suck at naming my effects?

Open up a new document, i did 200x200, Note: Size doesnt matter...


1. Fill the bg with Black.

2. Grab your Line tool:

And make a line like This:

3. Rasterize Your Layer. go to your layers palette and look at the Line Layer, it should be grey w/ 2 squares, on the right it should say Shape.. Right Click>Rasterize Layer

4. Filter>Stylize>Wind.. settings: Wind>From the Right

5. Filter>Stylize Wind.. Settings: Wind>From the Left.

So Far you should have something like this:


6. Merge your Line layer into the BG layer. Add Some COlor, ctrl+U... i used a bright blue.

7.Ctrl+Shift+N to make a new layer. Name it Line2

8. On the The layer 'Line2' Grab the Line tool again, and make a line where the first line was before the Wind Effects.

9. Rasterize the layer

10. Do Steps 4+5 on this new line

11. Merge the layers, Ctrl+E.. You should have 1 layer now.

12. Ctrl+J to duplicate the layer. (You should have 2 layers now..)

13. Filter>Render>Lens Flare.. Set the Lens flare like this. Also use these settings:


14. Erase around the lens flare so it looks like this:


Your Practically Done..If you want it to go Sideways, do the next step.

15. Image>Rotate Canvas>90 CW.

This is what you should get:



Now, Thats It..Finished, But if you do more lines, and keep going w/ the same effects you can get something like this:

Enjoy!

-Pink

[copyright to pinkpanther of furiousgfx 2005]

;) nice

when i rasterize the layer it makes the line dissappear and no effect will apply to it. what am i doing wrong?

DUDE! I found this site by this tutorial on good tutorials. Sweet. This is the first forum that i've joined and so far, i like it. From the looks of it, everybody's got some great graphics and i like it here. I think i'll stay.

Oh and maxwell, make sure you have this button selected.

ok well now i have the button selected and when i make the line its dissappearing as soon as i let off the mouse button. i dont get it.

I don't know, that's freakin strange...

Pink i dont get what its supposed to be.....

Also on step three when i rasterize the layer, the line dissapears.... i selected that buttopn that Tiger sai, but that just makes the lines disapear, When i have that button selected and i make the line nothing shows... God why am i having so much trouble lately...

the line 'disappears' because it is black (same as background)
remember to change the colour... :)

good tut..... :D

Heh, thanks.