it would be cool if someone, who can do the streams nearly perfect, can post a TUTORIAL about: “How to make a good proton stream in Photoshop”

Would be great! IN this tutorial tell us about how you did it!

Not to be mean but isnt the meaning of a tutorial to tell you how to do it?

I have been told my beam effects aren't too bad… my latest example:

And here's a brief “tutorial” pic I did last year:


I did this in Photoshop, but I'm sure it can be done in a less-expensive program like PSP. For me, layers were the key. The orange and blue beams were vector paths that I stroked with the airbrush, but someone with steady hands could airbrush these things by hand. The “particle burst” was a cluster of dots I painted, then used Radial Blur:Zoom to make it motion blurred, then a bit of “Spherize” to curve the motion lines downward as if by gravity. The lens flare was the standard Photoshop tool, but as you can see in the finished photos, the flare is barely visible and can be replicated with one good click on a large-size airbrush on the gun nozzle tip.

- K -

right…

Well said and nice job Ken