Once I had put the carbon fibre texture, the line drawings and the photographs into the graphic, I still felt that it didn’t quite “pop”
in the way that I wanted it to. I pondered it for some time, and looked at several options. Finally I took another look at the bus as it was when Steve bought it. The racing car graphics were surrounded by lightning –basic but effective.
I decided that I could generate some lighting using Photoshop, and I also decided that every piece of lightning on the whole bus
should be unique – no copy and paste for me!
My recipe for lightning (there may well be others have a search around but this is what I used for the bus) , simple but effective.
- New image file to your dimensions
- Gradient fill along the length
Filter – Render-Difference Clouds
Image-Adjustments-Invert
Adjust your levels to enhance the lightning effect
And use overlay setting when placed on main graphic
Job done
