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

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- [Instructor] Now that we've layered out our composite, I've gone ahead and saved it as a Photoshop, and I always encourage people to save early and save often. So you always want to make sure that you always have backups of your stuff. So let's go ahead and work with the lighting in the scene. We're going to use this layer here called lighting, and that's the raw lighting layer from V-Ray. Now, we can composite this in a number of ways. If I just composite it as normal, it's going to basically fade out the colors, because this particular layer has no color. So we're going to have to use a different blending mode. Now, I usually go somewhere between overlay and soft light. I usually vary between these depending upon the scene. So if we do overlay watch what happens. We get this when opacity is zero. We get this when opacity is at 100. And then we can dial in the effect that we want. Usually somewhere in the lower range.…

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