Lightsaber effect in Photoshop Elements 4.0- Please give some help

Hi,
I am very new to photo editing. I've been asked by my young cousins to photoshop in the lightsaber effect to some still photos. All I have is photoshop elements 4.0, and all the tutorials I find are in different editions.
So far, I created the additional screen layer, used the lasso tool to isolate the rod, filled in white. Added additional layers as described and added the different gausian blur layers too. However unlike other versions there is no way I can see to change the colors of the "outer glow" in my version.
Should I leave the first layer white, making the core, then make the additional copied layers the color I want with the blur?
Also can someone tell me how do I round off the tip of the blade?
I am sorry as this must be a pretty annoying issue to have to explain to every new user, but I promised the guys I'd do it and don't want to let them down.

I used a tutorial online for a different version of photoshop.
I created a new layer, as a screen with the option to fill in background with black, and used the lasso tool to isolate the rod and filled it in white.
Then I created 3 duplicate layers of this layer.
I then gave the core layer a gaussian blur of about 5
then first copied layer a blur of 10
next layer a blur of 20
and finally a blur of 30 all as instructed by the tutorial.
The creates a great looking white saber, but then the tutorial has an option to color the outer glow. My version does not.
As of last night I was able to use the "color variations" option and select increase blue for the midtones and some highlight. Its not as precise as I would like and I've getting fairly ok results each time, but this method is really trial and error.
I will look into using the hue/sat choice tonight, but when i selcted that last night, it changed the hue of the whole image and not just the outer glow layers.
I'll post a pic of the work so far from my home computer tonight.

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