{"id":7372,"date":"2014-12-15T19:34:21","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T03:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photoshopcafe.com\/?p=7372"},"modified":"2022-10-24T20:13:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T03:13:55","slug":"turning-lights-photoshop-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photoshopcafe.com\/tutorial\/add-lights-photoshop-tutorial","title":{"rendered":"Turning on lights in Photoshop tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this Photoshop tutorial, I’m going to show you how to turn on the lights in a\u00a0photo. I made\u00a0this car composite where I shot both the car and the background during the day, cut out the car<\/a> and dropped it into this scene. \u00a0I changed the mood to nighttime as well as a raining evening. The big problem with this composite is that the car’s lights are off and we need them on. That’s what we are going to learn in this tut.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Step 1<\/h3>\n

Create a new layer and change it to color Dodge blending mode<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Step 2<\/h3>\n

Choose a soft white brush and change the size to roughly the same size at the light.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Step 3<\/h3>\n

Click with the brush to add a glowing effect on the light. Sometimes you may need to apply it more than once, depending on the result.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Step 4<\/h3>\n

So the same for all the lights in the scene (all on the same layer)<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Step 5<\/h3>\n

We now need a glow around the lights, as real lights spread.<\/p>\n

Create a new layer and change it to Screen mode.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Step 6<\/h3>\n

Change the brush opacity to 40% (you could just change the layers opacity later you prefer)<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Step 7<\/h3>\n

Choose a larger brush this time and make sure the foreground color is set to white.<\/p>\n

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Dab the brush on the lights to create the glowing effect. In this case, I applied the brush 2x on each light.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Step 8<\/h3>\n

Now for some beams.<\/p>\n

Create a new layer and set it to Screen mode<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Step 9<\/h3>\n

Paint some lines beneath the lights, make the brush size the same as the lights.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Step 10<\/h3>\n

Choose Filter>Blur>Radial Blur.<\/p>\n

Select zoom and set it to about 44<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Step 11<\/h3>\n

Here you can see the lights smoothened out to beams (Sometimes I also apply a gaussian blur at this point, I didn’t on this image, but it might have looked better).<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Step 12<\/h3>\n

Adjust the opacity to suit your tastes.<\/p>\n

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And the result.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Extra Credit<\/h3>\n

Here I applied the lighting effects to different parts of the photograph where there are lights.<\/p>\n

I also painted over the top of some bright areas and blurred them to look like streaks and lens flares that you might see on a wet evening, the way that rain makes light distort into the lens of a camera.<\/p>\n

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Here is an example of a different shaped light and a beam art an angle using exactly the same steps.<\/p>\n

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I hope you enjoyed this little tutorials. Check out our other tutorials here\u00a0at PhotoshopCAFE and don’t forget to join our list for lots of Photoshop goodies.<\/p>\n

 
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