How To make Lightsaber Effects on GIMP

This is a little Tutorial on how to make Lightsaber Effects on the Program Called GIMP. Firstly, Open up a picture of you holding your lightsaber. ( Use a broken Broom, etc.) Then make sure your foreground colour is black.Up the on the top toolbar select ' Layers' then select 'New layer'. Call it lightsaber, and make it 'foreground colour'. Now your screen will have gone black. On the right toolbar at the top the is a box which says 'normal'. switch it to select.Now look in the left toolbox and select 'Paths tool'. Create a path around your blade, then on the bottom left toolbox click 'Selection From Path'. Now fill your saber's blade with white. Once you have done that, on the left toolbox, right click on your black layer and select ' Duplicate Layer'. Do that to your copy too. Once you have done that click on your first layer, then on the top toolbar click 'Filters' then 'Blur' then 'Gaussin Blur'. make sure it is 5.0. Now repeat Gaussin Blur on the Second black layer and make the blur 20.0. Make the last black layer 40.0. Now click on the top layer and click 'merge down'. Now on the top of the right toolbar there is a box which says normal. Switch it to screen. Now select the second copy and repeat the previous step. Now once you can see your picture again, on the top toolbar select 'Colors', then 'Color Balance'. Fiddle with that until you have the colour you want. DONE! Thanks for Reading!