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Notice I made four copies. This is important for the lighting effects that follow. Now that we've got out line, we can move forward to making it look like it's made out of light.
Page 3: The shape of things to come By now your sabre looks pretty lame. It's all, erm, white. So, why do you need four layers of white? For blurring, of course! The top Layer will be blurred using the "Blur More" filter. The Blade Blur Layer will be blurred using Gaussian Blur 6.0 pixels thick - the same width as the line. The 2nd blade blur will be twice as thick, and the third Three times as thick as the line. If you want, you can go on and on and on, until you hit a reasonable limit. Eventually, this is what you come up with:
This is still ghostly white, but at least it looks like a light beam instead of a white line.
Page 4: Have you saved yet?! What do you mean no? The following step is where things might go wrong, so you gotta save. The .psd file will keep the layers as they are, and then you proceed ahead and merge all the layers which you previously blurred. It should now look like this:
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