How to Add Lighting Effects to a Photographic Image
Photoshop gives you endless range of possibilities for processing raster graphics, including the creation of various effects. In processing the images often the goal is not only the right to hold color correction, but also add an interesting effect.
Despite the fact that at Adobe Photoshop aims at professionals, it is attractive for people because they can make necessary alteration in a pretty easy way. Large range of filters allows you to create stunning effects in just a few minutes. So, you can do a lot of stuff in Photoshop such as lightning, rain or sun glare effects.
Instructions
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Open the image that you're going to edit. To do this, simply drag it from the folder in the working area of the program. One way of photo processing is filters. In Photoshop, they have their own menu, and if properly applied, you can achieve interesting and amazing results.
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You can create a new image. Select "File" and "New" from the menu or press the key combination Ctrl + N. Specify the values 800 and 600 in the dialog box in the fields "Width" and "Height". In the combo box select "RGB Color" in the "Color Mode". In the combo box "Background Contents" select "Transparent".
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Set the foreground and background. Click on the box that displays the foreground color. In the dialog box "Color Picker (Foreground Color)" select white. Click on the box that shows the color of the background. In the dialog box "Color Picker (Background Color)" then select black.
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Fill the entire area of the image in white. To do this, select the tool "Paint Bucket Tool" and make a mouse click anywhere in the image area.
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Apply the filter "Clouds" to the entire image. Choose menu "Filter", "Render", "Clouds".
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Apply the filter "Difference Clouds" to the entire image twice. Click the menu "Filter", "Render", "Difference Clouds". Repeat this step.
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To colour an image, select the menu "Image", "Adjustments", "Hue / Saturation", or press the key combination Ctrl + U. In the dialog box "Hue / Saturation" check "Colorize". Move the slider to the "Hue" to get the desired shade of lightning. Save the resulting image. Press Ctrl + S, or click on the menu "File" and "Save". In the dialog box "Save As" after entering the desired name, path and image file format.
