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1. Open a new image 500x300.
Copy and paste your tube as a new layer you can find it
here. You may need to resize it to fit your canvas.
Position the tube on either the far left or right of your
canvas.
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2. Go to your pen tool. Set
the foreground the the color you want your beam to be. I'm
using yellow. Background null. Use the following settings.
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Decide where you want your beam
to originate from on your tube. Draw a straight line out from
the point of origin to almost the edge of the canvas.
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3. Convert to Raster. Go to your pick/deform tool. Pressing down on the CTRL key go to the node at the bottom end of your beam (not the point of origin end, but the other end). Then, pull it down to widen that end. You can also narrow the point of origin end by pulling the node in toward each other while holding the CTRL key down as well
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4. There, it's looking more
like a light beam already! Now, go to Adjust>Blur>Gaussian
Blur>10. And there is your beam. I've put a background layer
on my image so you could better see the effect.
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5. Now, time to make that light
beam move. Duplicate the light beam and go to Image>Free
Rotate>Left>20. You may have to adjust the direction depending
on how you want you light to move. Line up the beam with the
other beam at the point of origin.
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You can see that the large end
of my 2nd beam is squared off because of the canvas edge at the
end of the beam when I added the blur. This can easily be fixed
through. Go to your freehand selection tool. Set it to Point
to Point and feather 10. Draw a selection around the flattened
edges of the beam.
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Hit Delete on your keyboard 1
time. All better now!
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6. Duplicate this beam and
rotate again using the same settings. Line them up at the point
of origin. Continue doing this until you have moved the light
all the way across your desired path.
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7. It is time now for you to
make a background to go with your image. Also add any names or
text at this time. When you have this done, close of all the
beam layers except the first beam. Copy Merged and Paste into
AS as a new image.
8. Go back to PSP, close off
the first beam layer and unhide the 2nd beam. Copy Merged and
Paste into AS after current frame. Continue to hide and unhide
your beams until you have them all copied over to AS.
9. In AS, Select All and set
the frame properties to 25. And there you have it!
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Have fun!
Mae
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