photoshop lighting techniques

[Jungle_Jimm]

was a bit bored so played around with converting a day image to night then adding different lighting techniques, in the form of window lights, neon spot light (which is back lighting the building), porch light, headlights lighting up the front of the house, fire and some fireflies

original:



chop:



cheers
James

[KamRacing]

nice one. looks really good. Perspective wise your chair and floor are wrong. Drop a layer over the front lit up area and get a hint of yellow onto it too I like the cat

Kev

[Jungle_Jimm]

cheers buddy, yeah i did notice the floor but couldnt find any decent pics at the right angle, and the light on the rubbish is ment to be white as its ment to look like its illuminated from car headlights shining onto the house.

thanks for the comments mate

[VTomR]

Thats quality! well done.

[jordannicholls]

that looks quality

[Johnn]

Nice James, do you know how to do sunset effects ? Or would you like me to add it into this thread ?

[Jungle_Jimm]

yeah mate, but feel free to add it anyways, they are multiple ways of doing the same thing in photoshop so its always good to see how others do it

[Ryanp]

you must have had to much spare time this month dude

On subject you still recommend any PS courses, I need to bump up my PPing work for a few clients.

[Barry123]

you twatard. I've told you already I've got books/vids and stuff you can get a copy of.

[Jungle_Jimm]

haha lol ryan pay me an i will tutor you (or just steal some of your kit lol)

as for learning it there are specific books out just for adobe photoshop cs3 etc, then there are websites like digimods, tutorialized.com and deviantart which also have a good mix of stuff, youtube isnt too bad either

there also used to be loads of video tutorials on the adobe website although not quite sure where they are now

[Johnn]

Originally Posted by Jungle_Jim

yeah mate, but feel free to add it anyways, they are multiple ways of doing the same thing in photoshop so its always good to see how others do it

On the subject of this, what i normally do is take the lens flare. Place it in a real place in the sky. I then take the lighting effects & use a spotlight with the colour orange. I then just play around with the sliders until it looks correct.

[theecho]

looks awesome mate! how many hours it take you?

C&C: the embers look a bit too big..... that is all lol

[Jungle_Jimm]

not that long, no more than an hour tops, and most of that was looking for the images.

as for the embers they arent big, they are fire flies

Originally Posted by Jungle_Jim

fire and some fireflies