Effect Tutorial Requests

[Knuckles]

Yeah... I can probably figure them out after some messing around but I'm going to TRY and pressure NMMZ/Xero into running a ZV weekly comic

So if anyone can help me out, it'd be much appreciated.

I'm trying to learn how to learn the following on PS:

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Firey tornado effect

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Jawsome power aura effect

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Explosioned effect

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Cool blast

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Moar explosioned


Text tutorials are fine long as they make sense.
But yeah, figure if I can shop some nice effects people will be more inclined to go along with this...

[MasterOmegaX]

I think most of those are just effect sprites that had a glow filter applied and have been either smudged or motion blurred.

[Ztrl]

You can get all of those effects from spriters-resource.com under the Touhou section.