Luke
Ahearn has over fourteen years of professional game development
experience and has served in lead positions such as designer, producer,
and art director on seven published game titles including Dead
Reckoning and Americas' Army and worked as a background artist at EA.
He has authored six books on game development and ran his own computer
game company for ten years. Currently, he is the Art Director and
partner of ICPU.
In this article, noted author and game developer, Luke Ahearn demonstrates Creating Clouds, Lens Flares, and other effects with transparency and/or transparent pixels using Adobe Photoshop.