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Adding Shadows and Lighting to your Photos |
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Saturday, 16 September 2006 |
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Adding Shadows and Lighting to your Photos This tutorial with guide you through how to add a shadow to a painting on a wall and give the whole room a lighting effect.
| 1. | Open your image, I am using this one: 
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| 2. | Now paste your painting on to the canvas, make sure it is on a new layer of its own. |
| 3. | Right click the layer in the Layers panel and select Blending Options. Use these options: 
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| 4. | Now select your background layer, or the layer that you have your room on. Go to Filter » Render » Lighting Effects 
You should now have something that looks like this: 
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| 5. | You can then touch up the photo by using Shadow/Highlight on the Image » Adjustments menu. 
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| 6. | This is my result: 
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