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Enhance texture with the Lighting Effects filter

Enhance texture with the Lighting Effects filter - Photoshop Tutorial

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Enhance texture with the Lighting Effects filter

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- [Narrator] In this movie, I'm going to show you how we could use the Lighting Effects filter to add dimensions and to accentuate texture within an image. This is my finished version and if we come to the starting state, we see that it begins like this. So, I want to add the Lighting Effects filter. I want to do this non-destructively, so my first step is to convert my layer to a Smart Object. I'm right-clicking to the right of the layer name and choosing to Convert to Smart Object. Next, I'll come to the Filter menu, Render Lighting Effects. It remembers the settings that I used before, so I'm just going to set things back to their default and you'll likely arrive at Lighting Effects looking something like this. So here I want to use two of my three potential types of light. I want a spotlight and an infinite light. First of all, I'm going to adjust the spotlight. So I'm going to rotate this and move it. You'll see that these tool tips will pop up according to what part of the…

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