This is another result by following tutorial here - metal-wires 1.
Here I learn lightning effects,duplicate and merge to make things faster and create shadow without using drop shadow filter. When I use built-in drop shadow, background seem crop on the left and right. so using gaussian blur to drop shadow is a great technique.
- Dead link. Originally
thinkmoult.com/2010/09/27/the-gimp-metal-wires-and-abstract-background-tutorial
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