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Advanced topics, including lighting, are covered on our Advanced Photoshop course

Using the render filter you can produce great lighting effects with Photoshop. This can be particularly useful for portraits. In this Photoshop tutorial you will learn how to use different lighting effects

1. Open a portrait image

2. Create a duplicate layer, the easiest way is to select the layer in the layers palette and drag down to the layer icon at the bottom of the layer

From the Filter menu at the top of the workspace choose Filter > Render > Lighting Effects.

We will use the spotlight, so select spotlight in the drop down menu, paly with the sliders to change the effect, play with the points of the circle on the image icon to change directiona nd size of light beam. You can change the colour of the light by double clicking the white squares to the right of the window.

The final image

You can use the other lighting styles to achieve different lighting effects.
Experiment by turning off your first lighting effect layer by clicking on the eye icon

Make new duplicate backgound layers and play with the different syles of lighting using the drop down menu, changing the sliders, colours (clicking on the colour squares and selecting new colours)

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