In this movie, I'll show you how to create custom vignettes using lighting effects. Now some of you may have noticed that I'm using the same image for this chapter as I did when demonstrating the Radial Filter tool back when we talked about Camera Raw in the advanced course. And one of the reasons is, I want you to see how custom vignettes compare. In camera raw, a custom vignette is something you develop, that is, it's a kind of Adjustment layer. With lighting effects, It's a function of the lights you shine on the scene, and the shadows those lights cast.
So, for example, here's the original version of the photograph. Here's the lighting effects we just applied, and here's the lighting effect we're going to apply in this movie. So you can see just how flexible this filter really is. I'll back up to the results of the previous movie. And I'll double click on lighting effects here inside the Layers panel, in order to bring up the big window. And you can either throw away your existing spotlights. Or you can just turn them off. So, I'm going to just turn off each one of them.
And with both lights off the scene is going to turn black, obviously. Now you want to go ahead and add a point light by clicking on the add new point light icon up here at the top of the window. And I'm going to drag this point light to right about there at the tip of her nose. And I might scale it ever so slightly. I want it to be about 643. Something along those lines. And, now I'm going to change the color of my point light by clicking on the white swatch. And I want to warm up the scene quite a bit here.
So I'm going to dial the hue value of 30 degrees, a saturation of 25%, and I'll leave the brightness at 200% then I will click OK. And now I am going to take that intensity value up to 35 in order to produce this effect here. Now we need more darkness associated with the background. So I am going to reduce the ambien value here to negative 50 this time around, but that gives us a lot more orange. And I actually want to counterbalance the ambient light for the point light.
So I want to make it cool. And so I'll do that by clicking on this little blue color swatch. And then I'll change the hue value to 30 degrees this time, so you can see we're getting the opposite complimentary color. And also notice by the way, if I reduce the brightness value to 50, I'm actually brightening things up. Because since I sent the ambiance to a negative value, as a result these options are producing the opposite effects. And I'm going to take the saturation down to 50 as well, and in this case we do actually loose saturation inside the scene.
And now click OK in order to accept the result. Now, I'm going to leave the other option set as is. And then I'll click OK in order to apply that modification to my image. Now i'm seeing a different result onscreen because I had set the blend mode to overlay. And I'm going to change that right now by double clicking on a little slider icon. And I'm going to select the mode to normal this time around, and I'm going to leave the opacity set to 66%. Now I'll click OK. Now I still want to enhance the lighting further, and I'm going to do so using a second application of lighting effects.
So I'll go up to the filter menu, and just choose the very first command, or you can press Ctrl+F, or Cmd+F on the Mac. Because we're working with the smart object that brings back the window. At this point notice that the first spotlight is selected even though it's turned off. Which makes it kind of difficult to select the point line, because you may end up selecting one of the other spot lights instead. And if that bothers you, then you can just delete these guys. And you do so by clicking on one of the Spotlights and just clicking on the Trashcan in the lower right corner and that will automatically select Spotlight 2.
And so then you can click on the Trashcan to delete it as well. Then you'll just left with one point light. And this time, I'm going to take the intensity up to 40. Otherwise, I'm not going to change anything. I'm going to stick with the previous settings. And I'll click OK just to create a second application of that filter. Now double click on it's slider icon over there on the right hand side. And this time switch the mode to 'overlay' as before. And I'm going to reduce the opacity value to 50% in order to produce this effect here.
Then go ahead and click OK. And that is how you create a custom vignetting effect using the lighting effects filter.
Author
Updated
10/1/2014Released
10/15/2013- Creating professional-quality effects with expertly combined art filters
- Creating a dimensional watermark with lighting effects
- Correcting for camera shake with the Shake Reduction filter
- Removing distortion from a GoPro photo
- Correcting a panorama with the Adaptive Wide Angle filter
- Animating text with Puppet Warp
- Adding transitions, text, and sound to videos
- Creating an authentic HDR portrait shot
- Managing and leveraging advanced layer options
- Recording automatic actions and batch processing
Skill Level Advanced
Duration
Views
Q: This course was updated on 10/1/2014. What changed?
A: Deke updated the course to reflect changes in the 2014 version of Illustrator CC, including changes to the art filters, the Puppet Warp tool, HDR, layers, and actions.
Related Courses
-
Deke's Techniques
with Deke McClelland155h 5m Intermediate -
Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Hair
with Deke McClelland3h 6m Intermediate
-
Introduction
-
Welcome to One-on-One1m 21s
-
-
35. Art Filters and Oil Paint
-
36. Lighting Effects
-
37. Shake Reduction
-
Magic is a shaky proposition1m 32s
-
38. Panoramas and Wide Angle
-
39. Puppet Warp and Animation
-
Using Pin Depth and Density4m 36s
-
Tweening and animating text5m 10s
-
40. Editing Video
-
Adding text to your video5m 21s
-
41. High Dynamic Range
-
Developing HDR in Camera Raw8m 52s
-
42. Advanced Layers
-
Grouping layers by name7m 53s
-
Introducing layer comps4m 4s
-
43. Actions
-
Conclusion
-
See ya1m 20s
-
- Mark as unwatched
- Mark all as unwatched
Are you sure you want to mark all the videos in this course as unwatched?
This will not affect your course history, your reports, or your certificates of completion for this course.
CancelTake notes with your new membership!
Type in the entry box, then click Enter to save your note.
1:30Press on any video thumbnail to jump immediately to the timecode shown.
Notes are saved with you account but can also be exported as plain text, MS Word, PDF, Google Doc, or Evernote.
Share this video
Embed this video
Video: Creating a custom, colorful vignette