This Gimp video tutorial will teach you how to take a stock image and make it look like a lightning spell is coming out of her hand. We will do this with a combination of layers, layer masks, layer modes, and a pretty cool technique to make lightning streaks.

Original Tutorial: http://www.gimpedtutorials.com/make-a-d ... sing-gimp/

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The results are really great. Thanks for sharing.

tsandiford: looks like a very instructive tutorial - i will have to try it when i can find the right picture to start with. thanks for sharing, you make great tuts.