i recently took this pic in utah and i posted it in another forum and someone said to lighten the shadows to make it look better. Now the only way i know how to lighten the shadows would be to use curves but then i always end up lightening the whole pic. So then i tried shadows/highlights but have never really worked too much with that in just working on shadows and not the whole picture.
So here is the before picture....
There is a Tut on how to do random lightning, but how do i do lightning on which i can direct. e.g. lightning under text. Can anyone give me any advise or locations of tut's.
Its been a while but I made a banner a couple years back following an extremely well setup tutorial I found online... I want to use the same concept for something else I'm working on but I JUST CANT REMEMBER all the steps to create it!
I remember how to make some of the stuff... Clouds, Difference Clouds, some stuff like that... But the main problem I'm having is remembering how to animate it to look the way it does.
I'm designing a logo for a very electronic band, and I was wanting to put an electrical or lightning sort of effect in the background, like an explosion of elecricity or something.
The lighting effects classic plugin from the optional downloads page crashes both the 32 and 64 bit versions of photoshop cc (version 14) on a windows 7 x64 system when invoked from Filter>Render>Lighting Effects Classic.
Simply fill the area that you want filled in with random lightning with black.
After that is done, go to:
1) ->Filter->Render->Clouds
2) -> Filter->Render->Difference Clouds
3) Press Control + I to inverse the colors
4) Press Control L to select the levels
5) Adjust the levels so that the lightning is dimmed but not too much.
And from there you can change the colors by pushing Control U, and click on the "Colorize" check box. Adjust the colors as you wish! and mess with it to get cool effects!
I've been using photoshop 7.0 for quite some time now and i've realized that when I go to Filter > Render > Lightning effects.... i cant use the styles bar anymore....i use to be able to but recently i just cant anymore.... anyone know why i cant use the styles option in "Lightning effects" ? Would having win xp sp2 cause some conflict ?
In the attached photo of a spread from album liner notes, you may be able to make out some handwriting (I've outlined the area in red.) I'd like that area to be easier to read than it currently is when printed in a book project I'm working on. How can I lighten that area so the handwriting is readable, without making it feel too bright, and have it still blend with the rest of it's side AND the other side of the spread?
i have seen this tutorial which tells you how to create sparks between wires.
i have a wires graphic ready to go but i have photoshop 7 whereas the tutorial is aimed at 5.5. i cant seem to get this effect to work. for instance in step 2 Dan says:
I'm using 3ds (mental ray) for architectural visualization. I normally have different cameras for exterior and interior renders in one model. Each scene should have its own specific lightning and shadow settings (intensity, shadow position, etc)
Is it possible to have multiple sun positions in the same model which would be connected to each camera?
If not, what would be the best way to achieve various lightning settings? I would like to avoid having one file for each camera position.
I am looking for a good lightning solution to use in a number of scenes. I looked at Draper's pflow lightning setup but could not get it to work correctly.. in the short framecount I need it to occur.It looked great but only over 600 frames.
I am animating splines and I think I can get that to work ok.. but
I have created a block and it has a little lightning logo next to it, I have never come a cross this, when I click on other blocks, the logo doesn't appear. Why is it there?
I have been using Coreldraw for several years now to create maps, but I am not good with the artistic tools, I need to create something like the attached "Back to Future" photo, specially the fire & lightning effects, I am planning to replace the car with another object.
I need to generate a lightning effect and then export the frames to several PNG images.
I figured out how to do the lightning and how to export transparent PNGs, but I can't get rid of the lightning solid background (which is balck in my case).
what is the best way to make a real shadow. you know one that mirrors its source. the shadow effect is nice but how would i make a shadow of say a person standing up arms out and make it look real
I have a small studio and im taking pictures of seniors. It works out aside from the horrible shadows. I try to move my lighting around and even switch the umbrellas, but nothing seems to help.
I found great use with the Drop Shadow ability. Especially when used with text; a nice soft, lighty blurred drop shadow would do wonders for the overall image.
But too many times do I see graphics with that ugly, heavy, and greatly offset dropshadow. Sure enough it actually DETRACTS the realism from the image.
I need to use an object and a shadow shot in a studio shoot. It was shot on a light cream background and I need to piece the object and shadow back together and then place on a bright coloured background.
I've tried the background eraser but the quality isn't good enough,