Filled with Lightning

Neil — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 23:40:51 +0000

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

Success

Neil — Fri, 14 May 2010 02:27:31 +0000

I am happy (and relieved) to say that Steve was absolutely knocked sideways. A real success. Let me know what you think.

Team Suzuki HDR promotion image

What did I do…… I generated a pseudo HDR image from a single RAW file. Extracted unwanted areas, a bit of obvious beveling, then a little darkening overlay on the background and a touch of highlighting over the bike just to bring it out a bit. Hope you like it. The most difficult part was finding a font to match the Suzuki decals. After a lot of searching I settled on Swiss721.

Inshot insight » overlay

Filled with Lightning

Success