From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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Creating synthetic rays of light - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
Creating synthetic rays of light
In this exercise, I am going to show you how to create what's known as God lighting, which is when you have these bright rays of light that are streaming through the clouds. And we are going to start things off by creating the core effect using a combination of eight different Smart Filters. And if you're working along with me, go ahead and click in the Background layer, down here at the bottom of the Layers panel. Then create a new layer by pressing Control+ Shift+N, or Command+Shift+N on a Mac, and let's go ahead and call this layer rays, and click OK. Next, I want you to fill this layer with black. Black is my foreground color; I assume it's yours as well. So press Alt+Backspace, or Option+Delete on a Mac. Now, because we want to work with Smart Filters, we need to convert this layer to a smart object. So go to the Layers panel flyout menu, click on it, and then choose Convert to Smart Object. Or, once again, if you loaded Dekekeys, you can press Control+Comma, or Command+Comma on…
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Choosing the ideal base channel5m 7s
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Converting a channel into a mask6m 34s
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Painting with the Overlay mode7m 27s
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Painting with the Soft Light mode5m 55s
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Mask, composite, refine, and blend4m 40s
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Creating a more aggressive mask7m 2s
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Blending differently masked layers7m
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Creating a hair-only mask6m
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Using history to regain a lost mask3m 42s
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Separating flesh tones from hair8m 28s
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Adjusting a model's color temperature4m 30s
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Introducing the Calculations command7m 22s
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Extracting a mask from a Smart Object6m 34s
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Integrating a bird into a new sky5m 40s
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Creating synthetic rays of light6m 4s
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Masking and compositing light7m 39s
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Introducing a brilliant light source7m 5s
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Using the image to select itself1m 37s
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