From the course: 3ds Max and V-Ray: Exterior Lighting and Rendering

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Add light and shadow in Photoshop

Add light and shadow in Photoshop

From the course: 3ds Max and V-Ray: Exterior Lighting and Rendering

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Add light and shadow in Photoshop

- [Instructor] With our composite already layered up, let's go ahead and start working with the individual layers. So let's start off with the LIGHTING layer. Now this is the raw LIGHTING layer, so I have no color in this. So this will just include illumination. Now, if I were to just fade this in and out, you can see that it basically just grays out the image and that's not really what we want. Now one of the things you can do is you can just step through all of the blending modes to find the one that works the best for this particular image. So if I were to select say Normal, and then press my down arrow, you can see I'm stepping through all of the different blending modes. So now I'm on Multiply, Color Burn, Linear Burn, Darker Color, that looks interesting. Lighten, Screen, Color Dodge, that looks interesting. Linear Dodge and so on. So I can go through all of these just to get the color or the blending mode that I…

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