Sunlight Tutorial (PS7)
Quick Sunlight Tutorial; putting shadows on faces, etc
Useage of PS7, but easily translate-able.
Make this:
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Take your picture. The darker it is, usually the better, but you don't want it so dark you can't tell where the face is. This one is from Lost-Media. I've resized it here.
Turn it into a base image. Do not do anything to make it lighter. If you feel like sharpening, etc, do that though.
Duplicate the layer, and then mess around with it to make it lighter. For this one, I set it to screen, duplicated, set the second duplicate to screen, and played with Brightness/Contrast on the second duplicate until it looked a bit too light, practically faded.
Now use the eraser tool. I use the spray-paintish one (not the solid one), set to 35-45, with a ranging opacity of 60-70%. Make diagonal streaks across the image where you want shadow. In this example, I did the right half, making the light look like it's coming down from the top left.
And voila, instant sunlight in images where there's not! =) This is my first tutorial, and a majorly short one at that, but I'd still like feedback.
Useage of PS7, but easily translate-able.
Make this:
From
Take your picture. The darker it is, usually the better, but you don't want it so dark you can't tell where the face is. This one is from Lost-Media. I've resized it here.
Turn it into a base image. Do not do anything to make it lighter. If you feel like sharpening, etc, do that though.
Duplicate the layer, and then mess around with it to make it lighter. For this one, I set it to screen, duplicated, set the second duplicate to screen, and played with Brightness/Contrast on the second duplicate until it looked a bit too light, practically faded.
Now use the eraser tool. I use the spray-paintish one (not the solid one), set to 35-45, with a ranging opacity of 60-70%. Make diagonal streaks across the image where you want shadow. In this example, I did the right half, making the light look like it's coming down from the top left.
And voila, instant sunlight in images where there's not! =) This is my first tutorial, and a majorly short one at that, but I'd still like feedback.