Written steps are here: photoshopcafe.com/light-portrait-photo-photoshop/ Part 1 Lighting a photo: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wDTkILaIV90.html Part 2 Lighting a Portrait photo: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-b8MbRbgXpCg.html Part 3:3D lighting with texture channel: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IInzr2AKcMk.html Part 4. Adding photo-real depth with lighting effects (advanced): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BR0aAtE31PY.html If you can't see the handles try this: Press Cmd/Ctrl+ H, or Preferences > Performance > Use Graphic Processor
This is what I've been looking for the last several weeks. I'm just now dipping my feet into portrait photography, but I also do a lot of nature/birds, etc. The one thing missing from my photos when I'm editing is that beautiful dramatic look that comes from light and shadow. I was looking at ways to create a dramatic effect using shadows, but now I realize I was going in the wrong direction. This use of light is exactly what I was looking for. I'm going to go to the written instructions and put them in my notebook...thank you for doing that so I don't have to pause the video to write down each step! I can't wait to give this a go!
Very useful. I like the simplicity of the explanations. I have kept away from portrait shots as I was never satisfied with my lighting effects. This should help.
Wow, we may never need a photo studio in the very near future!! Love this & looking forward to more of it Colin. Thank you very much. Much can be learnt about lighting effects with creative, fun experimentation! A very thrilling thought.
The issue of not being able to select "lighting effects" in PS 2020 needs to be addressed. I was having issues until I changed the image to 8bits but thats hasn't worked for everybody. Awesome videos by the way, Colin. Much appreciated mate.
This is fascinating stuff and provides some techniques which I can use on some of my work where I want to enhance texture but subtly. Great video and now on to number three.
Very nicely done! I am using this technique for extra credit for my advanced PhotoShop class at our local community college. I really appreciate the pace of your courses. I have viewed all of your recent lighting effects tutorials and have learned so much. I have passed on the link to your channel to my local photography community. Keep up the excellent work!!
That was SO interesting. I used the lighting effects in the 90's to create golden embossed text - I never thought it could be used for portraits. Cool! More of this advanced stuff is welcome, cafe Chef....
It's interesting and quite helpfull. But I do see some issue of color bending at the background once you applying lighting effect. So how do you fix that? Thank you anyway for the tutorial.
Very interesting and informative tutorial. When would you choose to use the spotlight effect over for example the radial filter in Camera Raw? Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. Your tutorials are awesome.
photoshop is saying its discontinuing 3d effects so this is no longer possible - I can only get to selecting lighting effects where I get that error message, is there another way to get this effect 2022?
Thanks for tutorial. Exactly what I was looking for, with TealOrange lookup which I saw other portrait artists use. Now I know how to apply, plus the great lighting effects filter. Now I can go through past photo sessions and try them out. By the way, I subscribed to your You Tube channel. cheers!
This video was great and I certainly found this very helpful to really add something special to a portrait. It is so fun to follow along and apply these steps to my own portrait and wow, the before and after is very nice. Learning so much from your channel, thank you so much!
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It is a great video! Thank you! However I cannot undo in this filter, anyone knows why?
Excellent, Colin! I just stumbled on a little trick, perhaps you know. CTL-H will hide the outlines of the selected light source so you can see the effect without the distracting lines. ;)
Yeah, this is great! I look forward to the other tutorials. This is what I have been looking for. I can use this technic a lot when highlighting objects or persons in large musical groups (chorus/orchestras of 80 or more, etc.). Can you include your technic of adding the right amount of light on top or behind an object or person? Meanwhile, I will be practicing.
I believe for the sake of the tutorial, he didn't performed any skin retouching. And that, even with the blur applyed came out less pleasing. Anyway, with this light filters, if you use any kind of texture, it will be largely amplified. Thats why you need to blur it first. Just try for yourself, even with red, green or blue texture that comes by default, and you will see the result (not with every kind of light preset, but with most of them). What I do is to first apply the light filter with no texture, and add texture after; either with the texturizer filter in the filter gallery or using noise+ emboss, respecting the light direction that was previously applyed.
Because the texture will look too rough. A lot of the time I don't use it for portraits, but people wanted to see it on portraits, so you have to blur it a lot.
Colin, could you please show us how you would remove original window glass from a car to be used in a composite. Then, assuming a layer is created from those individual window frames, how do you tint them without altering the color tone of the car's interior? Hopefully this makes sense? If not, I could email or upload an example for you to browse, if I knew how to do this? Thanks for your time and consideration.
Nevermind, I figured out what I needed to do. Probably not the way you would do it, but there are always so many different ways to accomplish something with Photoshop. :)
If "Lighting Effects" is greyed out and you are already in RGB mode, try Edit -> Preferences -> Performance and check "Use Graphics Processor." Then restart PS. That solved the problem for me.
Too bad Adobe discontinued this, and there are no handles to change the position of the light. The old solution of disabling Preferences >> Technology Previews >> Deactivate Native Canvas, no longer works.
I just don't get this ! I post process almost all my images but not to completely change the lighting of the shot ! Why not just light it the way you want it in studio using things like grids, snoots, feathering, gels ??? To me lighting an image in studio / camera gives a way more realistic looking final image !!!
I’m sorry, it was too detailed to get the picture. I would’ve liked if you just started off by saying we’re gonna do three things and tell us how to generally do this whole thing in a sentence or two and then we watch 15 minutes of you doing it. It’s not so much fun to sit there and watch a slideshow of so many tasks without understanding what the process is. Maybe it’s just me, it’s late…
