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Difficulty : Easy

This tutorial will show you how to achieve a glowing streak effect in Photoshop.  It’s a very easy effect but can make an image a much better effect. Enjoy.

(Click images for a bigger preview)

Step #1 – The first thing you want to do is open up the

image you want to apply this effect to. You can use pretty much any image you like, a person, an animal, a guitar, anything works, in this example i’ll be using a picture of a friend of mine.

Step #2 – Next you want a create a new layer by clicking the small icon second in from the right, or alternatively going to Layer > New layer. Now select the pen tool by pressing the P key on your keyboard. Make sure your pen settings at the top of the screen are the same as the ones in the image below or this won’t work.

Step #3 - If you’ve never used the pen tool before you might find this a bit annoying at first, the best way to get past this is just keep mucking about with it until you get the hang of it and get the outcome you would like. Anyway, with your pen tool selected, and on the new layer you created, click where you want the streak to start, in this example i’ve started mine just to the right of his right leg. Now, click somewhere else, but hold it down and start dragging your mouse around, you’ll notice the streak now curves. Keep experimenting until you get it curving how you want it to.

Step #4 – This step is just pretty much repeating the last step until you have the outcome you want.  Just incase your thinking.. “But I want my streaks to go behind and infront of the image” We’ll get to that so don’t worry.

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UPDATE : All done and migrated.

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Have you ever been in a bind where your pc crashed and you need it to get in to get a file, or a virus got into a friends computer and it was so bad that you couldn’t get into to it to run a virus scanner.(shouldn’t be surfing that N0Rp, lol) Well today my friend I’m going to show you how to build a bootable usb tool kit and be able to boot into any pc and be able to extract files as well as to  run a virus scanner and an antispyware scanner from a miniature version of Windows XP, and run many other tools. Our baseline for our toolkit will be Hiren’s Boot CD. Lets go ahead and get our hands dirty. (no not like that, god get your head out of the gutter, lol)

What You Need

You will need a USB flash drive, 2Gb should be more than enough
A copy of USBFormat (available here)
A copy of grub4dos (available here)
A copy of AnytoISO to extract ISO’s (available here)
and finally a copy of Hiren’s Boot CD (available here)

Formatting the USB Flash Drive

ok lets start off by preparing our USB flash drive.

• Open up USBFormat.exe
• Make sure under device your flash drive is selected.
• for the file system select FAT32
• go ahead and give it a volume name if you wish (I named mine USBTLKIT)
• click on start to go ahead and format the USB flash drive (Warning: this will erase everything on your flash drive, please back up any important information that you may have on it)

(Reference to the picture below for guidance)

Setting up grub4dos on your flash drive

Sweet, now that we have our flash drive formatted we can continue on to installing grub4dos on our flash drive.

• Open up grub4dos.exe
• click on the radio button for disk, select your flash drive from the drop down menu
• once you have selected your flash drive, click on the refresh button located under the Part List section
• once refreshed select Whole Disk (MBR) under the part list drop down menu
• Click on install and you are set, woot, woot!

(Reference to the picture below for guidance)

grub4dos will go ahead and edit the grldr file and the menu.lst file located in the directory of grub4dos

• go ahead and copy these files over to your flash drives root directory

Extracting Hiren’s ISO with AnytoISO

Now that we have configured grub4dos to be compatible for our flash drive, we are now going to extract our toolkit on to the flash drive to make it work.

• Install AnytoISO on your system and follow the steps that it has to install
• once AnytoISO is installed, go ahead and open AnytoISO.exe
• click on Open Image (browse to the directory where you have Hiren’s boot CD downloaded)
• Select the Hiren’s ISO and click open
• Click on select folder and browse over to the root of your flash drive and click ok
• Click on Extract (at this point, the files on the ISO will be extracted to the flash drive)
• Exit out of the AnytoISO application.

We are done!!!!!

Wow, we have finished our creation, you know have a bootable USB Flash Drive loaded with tools to do some serious work. Go ahead and test out your creation. Start up a computer and make sure you your Bios is set up to boot from USB devices. (refer to your computers documentation on how to set this up) With this USB toolkit you will be able to change passwords, clone hard drives, boot into a miniature version of Windows XP to extract files run virus scans on a system and many, many other things, the tasks are limitless.

Enjoy your creation and let me know what you think of it in the comments.

Screenshots provided by:

http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd

http://www.crystalidea.com/anytoiso