Well Setekh uses Spire, a custom made program that you can't find in any shop (damn you still Mr AWACs)

I use Photoshop for my beams...heres how...
Open Photoshop. Place your ship and so on, make a selection thats the shape you want the beam to be. Make sure it's wide enough to accomadate the white selection your going to put on top.
This is your "base" colour, if it's Shivan: red, Terran? green/blue or whatever you want it to look like. Flood fill it.
Now you make a selection inside this, which you'll fill white. You should now have something that looks beam like buy is to sharp, so you can either blur it or use the smudge tool on it (very lightly). Bam! one beam. It takes practice but it works

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