glow effect

[xlandar]

I've been making some custom drones and stuff, and i ran into a problem. I have no idea how to make the glow images (such as the light on weapons when they are charging). what are some good techniques used to create that glow? (i'm using gimp).

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(it's an ion drone)

[kartoFlane]

Slap some brush with a color of your choosing, then use a blur filter (Gaussian is best for this purpose) to make it look like a glow. That's the most straightforward way.
Alternatively -- I don't know about Gimp, but in Photoshop every layer has layer settings, where you can apply some fancy effects to the layer -- outer/inner glow among them.

That said, you might have more luck just googling for "gimp glow effect"...

[Sleeper Service]

Airbrush tool with a fuzzy circle brush works as well. You can play around with the opacity and the brush size slider to get different effects.

The "drop shadow" filter also can produce very event glows, just set its x/y offset to zero and see what it produces. But this one is producing glow around the edges of stuff (around what you have selected or what is visible on the plane), so its more suitable for ship glows.

[Ora_unit_SR388]

If you are using photoshop or paint.net, you could make a new layer, block some lighter color around it, then use unfocused, and make the layer additive.

[English Narwhal]

If you are using photoshop or paint.net, you could make a new layer, block some lighter color around it, then use unfocused, and make the layer additive.

Huh, I've never been good with glow effects.
By the way, how's the UI work going?