From the course: Enhancing an Environmental Portrait of a Model in Photoshop
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Adding a lighting effect and reviewing the project - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Enhancing an Environmental Portrait of a Model in Photoshop
Adding a lighting effect and reviewing the project
- In this movie we'll be applying one more final brightness adjustment to the photograph. And we'll do that by taking advantage of a filter which is called Lighting Effects. And then we'll organize our layers and review the steps that we've taken in order to get to this stage of our project. All right well, let's merge all of the underlined layers to the top most layer. To do that we'll use a shortcut key combination, it's "shift + option + command + e " on a Mac, "shift + alt + control + e" on Windows. Let's name this layer "Light." Next, we'll navigate to our "Filter" pull-down menu. Here we're going to "Render," and then we're looking for "Lighting Effects." Click on the "Lighting Effects" menu button and it will launch the image, inside of the Lighting Effects dialogue. Here it's applying an effect based on a preset. You can choose the presets by clicking on this pull-down menu. For example, we can choose "Crossing Down" and we have two lights which are crossing down. And then we…
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