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Using the Lighting filter

Using the Lighting filter

- So here's the workshop as I photographed it. And it's lit by a florescent strip light behind this beam. I want to make it look as if it's lit from this oil light hanging from the ceiling. I'm going to accomplish that with a lighting filter. So we'll go to layer, new live filter layer, and choose lighting filter down at the bottom. It's a rather confusing-looking dialogue with a lot of sliders, but the good news is, we can control most of its effects by dragging straight on this tool on the image. So let's move the dialogue out of the way and see what we've got here. This control moves the whole thing around so we can position it where we want. The top one rotates it and sets the scale. We can drag it up and down to make it larger. The slider halfway up sets the elevation, the height of the lamp above the surface. So let's set it round about there. We can use this bottom handle to bring it up so it's all starting from around that lamp at the top. The controls at the sides are…

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