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Add light and shadow in Photoshop

Add light and shadow in Photoshop

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Add light and shadow in Photoshop

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- [Instructor] In addition to reflections, we can also affect the lighting of the scene, and we can use the lighting layer, which is essentially a raw lighting element, to do that. Now, when I turn on this lighting layer, you can see it's basically a grayscale image. Now, again, this came in just a little bit dark, so we can affect this layer by either doing an Auto Contrast or by going into Levels and just adjusting that. So I'm going to go ahead and adjust the levels so it's just a little bit brighter, and that'll give us a little bit more control over this. So I'm essentially adjusting that middle slider on Levels down just a bit. Now, once I have this, I can use it to affect the overall lighting. Now, this can be handled with blending modes. Now, by default, if I turn my opacity all the way up, the image goes gray, so the normal blending mode is not really what we want to use. So I like Soft Light, so let's go…

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