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Adjusting the sunlight

Adjusting the sunlight - Photoshop Tutorial

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Adjusting the sunlight

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- [Instructor] Here's our finished light source, our finished sunlight layer and of course the most satisfying moment always comes when you are able to combine your sunlight with your ambient light and we can do that pretty quickly by simply adjusting the blend mode of our sunlight layer from normal to screen. Here we go, we now see a combination of the direct sunlight and the ambient light. Just like with the ambient light, I will now add an adjustment layer to the sunlight. I will make sure that it only adjusts this sunlight layer by grouping it. Holding alt and clicking between the two layers and I will also, right away, delete the layer mask because you don't need it. Now I have all the power to change the appearance of our sunlight. Okay, hitting the colorize check box first, now we can adjust the hue of our sunlight. It should have a warm feeling to it, so maybe not as red as this but some kind of orange-yellow. We can surely adjust the saturation a little bit here to really…

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