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Recreate The Flash Running Lightning in Photoshop - Copycat

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This tutorial shows how to recreate a running lightning effect inspired by The Flash. It covers background removal, multiple lightning-generation techniques in Photoshop and After Effects, compositing, colorization, and Camera Raw adjustments.

Syllabus

- Intro
- Remove the Background from the photo
- Import and blur the background
- Blur the Toy Flash
- Technique 1: Apply a Lightning overlay
- Technique 2: Create Lightning from scratch in Photoshop
- Technique 3: Create Lightning in After Effects
- Composite The Lightning Into your image
- Colorize the Lightning
- Finalize the Composite with Camera Raw
- Fine-Tune the Composite
- Reduce the Camera Raw effect intensity
- Outro

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