Hey, been a while since I've done a tutorial. So here you go. =P

 

 

 

Oh yeah, and all my tutorials are for photoshop if you don't know already.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We will use this non-lightened sig as a example:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Notice how the stock has one eye shut, this is perfect for a lighting effect, because it makes the 'scene' look more natural.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

First make a new layer (make sure it's at the top of everything excluding the border), and select the lasso tool.

 

 

 

Set the feather on 1 px.

 

 

 

Make a selection like this:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then right click and select "feather", make the feather 20 pixels.

 

 

 

Now select a 60px soft round brush, on the color white and brush over the selection and you should get something like this:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now unselect the layer and set the layer to about 60% opacity, or whatever looks right. This should create a beautiful light source, which is very simple to make aswell.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is my end result after a few tweaks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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yes! finally!!!

haha.. then I take it you've been looking for this. =P

nope, i have my own method for lighting, but i am getting pretty tired of telling people how to do this, and now i can just yell at them to look at the (soon to be) faq stickey

Soon to be eh? Well I hope so.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If so I'll add some other methods of lighting.

Nice, simple tutorial :D Thanks!

No problem

 

 

 

aka

 

 

 

Bump

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

=P

Great! I was wondering how to do this, came accross a few tuts that just said "now add a light souce" and I didn't know how, thanks!

Oh so you're the same metroid as on that forum =P. I thought it was Phazon Graphics?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sorry aobut the off-topicness =p

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Or maybe it's something different..

Thank you! Very informative for many newer users like me! :)

But the final result looks worse. It's as if you left a mug stain on the picture.

Mug stain? Not sure what you're talking about but w/e..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maybe it looks worse to you, but to anyone who has decent experience in photoshop knows the final version is much better.

Mine looks like a grey smudge in the corner. Wonderful.

TY ive been looking for ages for a lighting tutorial. Im rubbish at it