Creating laser effects

Bob · 09-12-2006, 05:56 PM

Bleh. It's been done to DEATH (rays). Need to think differently to get attention.

Design your flyer with say, an inch of white outside a very generous bottom bleed-- cut on an angle if possible. Take the printed flyers to a place where they do laser welding. Ask them to clamp the pile and cut off the bottom with their units. Or, probably just as good, and cheaper-- just take the stack to a woodshop and bandsaw cut the clamped stack along the trim line and finish with a few seconds of torching to the clamp pile. The burned edge will get their attention.

See? Get literal, get hot. Get creative with the form. And play up the play.

plank · 09-12-2006, 06:05 PM

very outside the box brioacher!! awesome idea!! would still like to know the best way of achieving laser effects too tho

Riya · 09-12-2006, 06:11 PM

I would expiriment with an really soft airbrush set to a low opacity in photoshop. Pick a color and build on it, changing the color closer to white as you go. The picture on the right has a motion blur applied to it too.

Jackimalyn · 09-12-2006, 06:40 PM

man, designing for a night club... that would be a lotta fun

Bob · 09-12-2006, 08:10 PM

I'd also look into using the pen tool to do make shape layers. From there you can add stroke, glows and other effects and easily re-edit their positions.

Creating laser effects

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