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Well, I was fooling around with the silly Wind filter, seeing what weird stuff I could come up with. One experiment looked a lot like an aurora borealis, so I decided to see if I could make a real good one. Not bad, eh?
Photoshop 3, Kai's Power Tools 2
I started out with a plain black square, then made a
white squiggle with the paintbrush. I made the squiggle vertical, since
I knew the Wind only goes left or right, not up or down. You can draw
it normal, then rotate it out and back.
Then I applied a KPT Gradient, Procedural Blend, to get
the neato colours to get on the white line and not the black background.
Then I applied the Wind filter at it's lowest setting, twice. That
makes the neato streaks.
For more fun with Wind, see
SUBZERO.
Next, I painted in some mountains, in dark purple. I scribbled with the airbrush with black and light purple to get the highlight and shadow shapes. Then I applied some purple lighting to the sucker, with Blue as the texture map, to give it that nice, rugged, 3D look. I also added some KPT Hue Protected Noise, Max.
I selected the black area above the aurora and gave it a fill from dark blue down to black. The stars are those star-shaped 'Shop brushes, painted with the airbrush. And, of course, I couldn't forget my favorite: Lens Flares on the aurora. Not just one, but THREE! Well, it looks like a flashy air-brush design thing, so why not go whole hog?
The text is... oh, some fancy font! Filled with the same KPT Gradient with more repeats, and then lightened up.
I'm only offering this picture as a GIF. It's just a small little knock-off anyway. If you want a big, fancy JPG, you could paint your own. It is NOT that hard. (Or, of course, you could pay ME to do it! LOL!)
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