Photoshop Creative Issue

Master lighting

with blend modes

Use Screen, Lighten and Soft Light

for different effects

When creating a composition that relies largely

on light and light sources, it’s incredibly important

to get the best out of the light in your picture. As

a inishing touch, we’ve inserted a bokeh texture,

available in the supplied resources. By setting the

texture to Screen, only the lightest colours become

visible, but if you want to let through light and

dark, set the blend mode to Sot Light. Alternately,

Lighten will only show pixels lighter than the

colours of the layers below.

Get to know your blend modes so that you’ll be

able to keep all your images consistent in tone.

Experiment with Screen, Lighten and Sot Light in

this tutorial and see what efects you can create.

Elements

Hit Cmd/Ctrl+F to

repeat the last

ilter that you

used

Shortcut

Make adjustments

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Go to the Fill Layer icon and choose

some adjustments to subtly enhance

the tone, colour and feel of the piece so far.

We used Levels – alter the red, green and

blue channels – along with Brightness/

Contrast and a black-to-white gradient map.

Add noise

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Once more, create a merged layer at the top of your layer

stack, and this time go to Filter>Noise>Add Noise. Select

Amount: 400%, Distribution: Gaussian and check the Monochrome box.

Click OK and set to Soft Light, 20% Opacity.

Reduce noise

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Hit Cmd/Ctrl+Alt/Opt+Shift+E to create

a merged layer at the top of the stack.

Go to Filter>Noise>Reduce Noise and choose

Strength: 10, both other values at 0. Click OK.

This will smooth over the entire image.

Tweak the colours

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Finally, with everything else in the image complete, add a

Photo Filter, a black-to-white gradient set to Soft Light, 20%

Opacity, and then add a gradient of yellow to navy via purple, as seen

above, to bring out the colours of the inal composition.

Sharpen it up

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Again, create a merged layer at the

top of the layer stack. Go to

Filter>Other>High Pass and choose 5px as

the Radius before hitting OK and setting to

Overlay. This will sharpen up the image again,

and add detail to the highlights.