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Artificial Lighting Effect

Monday, November 29th, 2010

Open an image you would like to light. I used this one:

Select the adjustment layer icon at the bottom of the layers window.

Select Curves.

Now adjust your curves to be a little darker than original image.

You’ll have this:

Make sure you select the Model layer to work on.

Go to Filter > Render > Lens Flare…

Use the following settings:

You’ll have this effect:

Select the Burn tool.

Use the following settings:

Now go in and burn where the shadows would be in her face:

(around her eyes, her ears, anywhere you see darker areas)

Now select your dodge tool.

Use these settings:

Now go in and highlight where the light would hit, you can be as drastic or as minimal as you’d like:

Your end result:

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Lighting a Paper Lamp

Wednesday, November 17th, 2010

Open a new file in Photoshop. I made mine 600px by 800px.

Make sure you have selected the correct colors you want to use in the color blocks.

Right click the background layer to unlock it. Apply a Layer Style by right clicking on the layer and going to Blending Options.

Add a Gradient Overlay and a Pattern Overlay using the following settings:

Now find what you want to “light up”. Here I’ve used a paper lantern I found, but you can use whatever you want.

Select the Ellipse Tool (U) and create a shape like I did. After that apply a Gaussian Blur (Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur) with radius of 15px.

Create a new Folder name it “Light Effects”. Change its blend mode to Color Dodge, and move the ellipse you created to this folder.

In order to create the sparks we will use the amazing brush engine. Add a new layer, inside the “Light Effects” layer, set white for the color and follow the images below.

You will have something like this:

Now add smoke. Create a new Layer, call it “Smoke”. Change its blend mode to Color Dodge and select the Lasso Tool. Set 40px for Feather and create a selection like I did below. After that make sure that the foreground is white and the background is black and apply a Filter>Render>Clouds. Tip: Continue applying the filter until you get the best clouds.