From the course: Illustration: Compositing Techniques
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Adding bounce light - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Illustration: Compositing Techniques
Adding bounce light
- [Narrator] The main bulk of our illustration work is done now. We've created two light sources, an ambient light from the sky, and a direct sunlight for our scene, and we have also colored all the objects in our illustration, so this is already looking like a really nice piece of art, but we can still enhance it a little bit. One thing that I'd like to do is to add another light source, a third one, and I'm calling that Bounce Light, because the light that I'm going to introduce now by making this layer here visible is light that hits the ground and then bounces back into the scene and lightens up elements of the scene that had been a little bit dark before. Just compare the two versions. This is without the Bounce Light, and this is with the Bounce Light. And the Bounce Light is nice for two reasons. The first reason is that it introduces a new light color into the scene, so because the light bounces off this brown ground it is very warm, and therefore it creates a very nice…
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