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Painting the ambient light

Painting the ambient light - Photoshop Tutorial

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Painting the ambient light

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- [Instructor] We are now ready to start with the actual painting process. In order to do that, I will just create another folder in the layers palette, and I will call it Light, because what we are going to do now is paint the different light sources for our compositing. The first light source that I'd like to paint, and I create a fresh layer for that, is the ambient light. My approach to painting the ambient light is the following: I take white and fill the whole layer with this white light, so to say. Now the ambient light is just light everywhere. There is no shadows, nothing. It's a completely overexposed scene. If we toggle off our drawing, we see this is our scene with super-white ambient light with no shadows at all. You can't see anything. Now it is our task to paint all the shadows that would actually make the elements of our scene visible. I'm decreasing the opacity of my drawing here, because I do not have to see it clearly. It's just an indication for me, now. I will not…

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