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| 1. Start by drawing a line in the angle you want your lightsaber. This will work as a help line. |
2. Pick the darkest of the red shades and draw the shape of the lightsaber following the help line on a new layer. |
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| 3. Pick the second darkest shade and fill the inside of the lightsaber by using the Line tool- Weight: 1 with the Anti-aliased box checked. Make sure you don't get any pixels drawn outside of the dark red. |
4. Repeat step 3 with a lighter shade. |
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5. Repeat step 3 and 4 with the lightest colour. |
6. Go to Image > Adjust > Brightness/Contrast and set the Contrast to +50 to make the lightsaber brighter. |
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| 7. Duplicate the lightsaber layer, put the duplicated layer behind the original and go to Filter > Blur > Blur. Repeat two or three times. Erase all blurry parts that are outside of the doll. |
8. Draw the handle. |
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| 9. Create a new layer behind the lightsaber layer and draw a blur of red. This will be the lightsaber's glow. |
10. Use the smudge tool to soften it out a bit. The glow should be stronger the closer to the lightsaber. Then erase all pixels outside of the doll. |
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| 11. Change the layer to Screen with Opacity: 60%. |
12. Create a new layer and add some more glow here and there. |
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| 13. Change this layer to Colour Dodge with Opacity: 50%. |
14. Finished! Same prosedure can be done with any colour. |