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3D Lighting Tips in Adobe Photoshop

Sunday, April 12th, 2009 – running time 19:28
3D functionality is a huge part of Adobe Photoshop CS4. Bert shows you some tips in applying light sources to your 3D projects.

Create a 3d object
This week, Bert teaches us that 3D is not just about angles, shapes, and depth. Lighting is equally as important. We begin with a 900x600, RGB file set to 72dpi. Fill screen with a solid blue in a new layer. Turn the layer into a 3D Postcard so we can apply lights. In 3D controls, you can scale down the solid block of color and apply rotations.

A note about resolution in your Photoshop files
If working in print, your resolution should be double your halftone screen. i.e. If the magazine prints at 150 line screen, you need 300 dpi. If working for the computer screen only, use 72dpi as it speeds up the computing speed when working on images. Higher resolution requires more time for processing.

About 3D lighting
There are 3 different sources of light, which can be controlled in the 3D (Lights) panel: Point lights, spot lights, and infinite lights. In this window you can also adjust the lighting source position, color, intensity and angle.

Point lights
Point lights are simulate the light from a regular lightbulb.

Spot lights
Spot lights shoot the light out at an angle like a cone - narrow at first, then widening as the light travels.

Infinite lights
Infinite light is like an ambient light, much like sunlight. Changing the angle of the Infinite light will lighten or darken your image with more coverage. You can also use Infinite light much like a photographer's reflection screen to hide shadows.

Adjusting light properties
- Hotspot and Fallout values will change the softness of the light's edges.
- Attenuation determines the distance of how far the light travels, and you can set inner and outer values to manipulate the light to be realistic with distance.

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Highlights
3-D ( 0:52, 6:20, 6:44, 0:52, 6:20, 6:44 ) Blu-ray ( 1:59, 1:59 ) Netflix ( 0:06, 1:52, 1:54, 2:09, 2:20, 0:06, 1:52, 1:54, 2:09, 2:20 ) detainees ( 6:37, 6:37 ) 3-D ( 0:52, 6:20, 6:44, 0:52, 6:20, 6:44 ) Blu-ray ( 1:59, 1:59 ) Netflix ( 0:06, 1:52, 1:54, 2:09, 2:20, 0:06, 1:52, 1:54, 2:09, 2:20 ) detainees ( 6:37, 6:37 )

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" This episode pixel perfect you've brought do you buy and Netflix and godaddy.com. Hello and welcome the pixel perfect would be Burton on the show where all kinds of things get done. They show up. Look at these lighting that's available in the new 3-D phone functions of push up extended. But first -- back -- back on today's show assent by dean Gibson. Look at this. If he went back -- drew either you know. I don't know what that. Unabomb behind me. Okay before we start. Let's thank our sponsors. Would start by thinking godaddy.com. Who makes it easy to customize your own virtual dedicated server. Two is one of three popular plans ports selector only an X or windows server with all the plan options you need. Pleasant to the -- pixel three did you see in this community there. And when you check out you can register your domain name for seven dollars and 49 cents seven what I would do that right now. Some restrictions -- apply it to the site for details get your -- Internet at godaddy.com."

" Also want to thank Netflix for sponsoring pixel perfect. -- Netflix you can rent over 90000. Titles online including lots of Blu-ray titles with free shipping both ways to your home. They now have over forty shipping centers so almost all deliveries happen in just one business day. The Netflix plans start from four dollars and 99 cents -- as a new member you can get a no risk two week free trial membership. Check it out at www. Netflix.com. But it's -- Pixel perfect and remember you do have that type in net WWW. When using this code. Quite some time ago John."

" Mac came on to show us CS four I was are talking about three B and I'm in -- so. And today and in the coming week I showed little bits and pieces here to get to kind of -- that it does in fact. This weekend actually gonna talk about the lighting. And -- things that we can -- Iran would like to sit and look at the actual lighting features and what they do. Some go in here and I'm in my Photoshop here -- a sudden you file. Might stand a little. Go file of 900 by 600 so let's make this 900 wide. By 600 it. And to make it RGB. I came -- you'll notice that pretty much showtime among the show here I do a resolution savvy to it matters 600 and some people ask me. Is that the resolution easy work that well no I don't work at that. What are resembling answer to BP -- visiting I'm doing here is purely for the screen. I and I can be at a 100% to conceal the detail that so that we accepted sometimes get. And also things happen fast if ever gonna kind of files that I normally work on which again 480 DPI. Then I'm gonna say and he is a filter and okay so now what's his way through the filter to come around then we're still waiting for the felt there. And appear on anything you can't have that we need things happened really quickly site look at low resolutions for the purpose of discrete. Course it is something for the web. Animals organism to -- but that's silly to the API and that particular dimensions is what gives me decides that I need for this demos and the demos only. You should be working not your resolution should be twice that don't screen. Have to mean what you want for that magazine and and so on is that 150 line screen you need 300 BP I it's that are set. But that's what I worked at. On the screen on the show seventy PI. So now. I'm gonna just invert this background in a command I it to get black so we have nice black background and how to create layer. Couldn't you layer right here and it's got nice color -- just Jessica and his new leg that in the film that would dampen it. So -- out there right there that is created I'm going to turn that into a we postcard. That Reno attorney and fifth meeting postcard is that way I can go in there and play around with the likes to -- to see how they're going to work. I'm gonna go into my a three controls here. And I'm gonna shrink it down out you know that go right to the block here we're going to -- shrink it down a little bit like that. And I'm gonna do a little rotation on it -- go to this guy which allows me to. Do that and feedback to see exactly which win going to be rotating -- I can rotate and like that -- I know exactly where I'm I'm working so I'm. Who in this way residences kind of."

" Playing around the screen I can actually see where things are going and I'm gonna -- my removed so I just bring it over just a little bit. Right there like that. Now this post guys just a -- to step flat plane and -- it is going to start playing with my lights secrecy the kind of lights that are available. Now. Usually when you create some shape with so what and yet. The creation tools there ought to go to the three panel they'll be all these light source is when you click on the light they'll be all these. Like so as it usually three. Infinite lights. -- but right now I've started with a -- like to go on no lights on the scene right now as we just seen the blue card. Floating in space the -- solid because the original. Color for that there was that's all of do there's not to mention here except pretty. Actual movement but this little dimension as far as lighting is concerned and that's where the light sources command. I keep in mind when you're working at 3-D it basically almost like playing like photographer. You're delighting the scene you gotta go and you're set up all the moods they're going to make -- single real. -- is not just angle it's also should be shading is gonna create that debt now in my two detainees have always mention that I. Put a gradient and everything that little gradient adds that the mention in the case of the 3-D. You're actually lighting it to get those radiance. So now we have three different light sources we have a point light we have a spotlight and we had the infinite -- ID at three totally different lights. You can change he's nights at any time goes after you've created a particular like do want to change it from this. Not to appoint you can. But -- look at what these guys well. Look like. Now up -- point -- I'm gonna start with point and -- here say give me a new point -- down here. Click on it and I gotta point right now it looks like nothing happened. And that's because my point my right now came in centered it is seen. And my card and a postcard is a little forward. So is actually hiding. The life behind it so right now on the other side is both art is very bright back there the front is still this ought to do. We're gonna do is I'm gonna move that light in space so it comes in front of my -- And I could see up here that in the panel I had that -- selected and these guys out here. Deal with the light. McCain as opposed to these other guys that do would be object. And this little guy appear deals with the object I'm dealing with the actual light so the play -- these this one right here. And it lets me move in and out a space vote they. The -- out the lights coming in and out and there is disappeared again. Tell you what let's see the light. Clicking on this little guy right here allows me to see the light now -- behind so we'll see is -- what I bring it forward. There's a light and it bears my life. There's a light source. Get it and I've put it in front of the the the Coast Guard Nate is he's going right through the postcard. -- eight and the actual light is now behind a postcard and now its in front that the post card. So that is my point like the point light is very strong and very powerful. Affect and so on but I'm going to imply that I can increase the intensity is you to right now. And and I can go in there and change its conferences to set like a nice red logo and then change it to -- red click okay and I could see that we had -- read. Highlight showing here now report -- is doing is -- you turn on and the light -- in all directions. It's pretty strong like there. There's creating this effect not -- emulation. -- coming -- a few minutes ago but that will control the amount of light that this is that that light is traveling but we'll get that and -- Okay so now we got dissolve like them not justice bring it out here a little more its way out here can now let go in here and add a new. Spotlight. There's a spotlight now that came in centered and you can see it's pointing outward. So what we're doing going to come in here and bring this life sort. A little bit and I want to twirled it around some of the when you say twelve this so that it's pointing into the scenes they. I'm pointing at. Directly onto. I postcard. There it is. That's in the back a little bit. Okay and -- a little more so we get more of this bill and -- But I -- that's good now. These controls here hot button -- these really pertain very it's going to be. The spotlight not a spotlight is like -- normal spotlight it's shooting the lights straight out. It's shooting these sites. Now you have paid hot spot and the fall ballot passover legacy that you get this little indicating here is a hot spot which is to central com all of my life. Is the falloff that's set -- area. That out out of area the larger. That I want the spotlight to be really sharp that I don't have the hot button fall off very close and number it can't be exact as to be a degree off. It won't let you if you tried to make -- exactly you can't do that and -- tell you what you should be. If you want to be really soft and you give it a lot of cool off and keep the hot spot kind of small that we get a really. Opening night though. You can do that better with that point like to get back kind of an effect but the spotlight here. -- you see that right now this edges kind of soft so -- going -- air and reduce my hot button -- just moved my idea Chris over the words and reduce the size of my hot spot if I would just type in and it was just make this a fifteen. And code and its that if you get the hot spot became soft and smaller and I'm gonna increase the full of to say 85. Okay nice it would it has big soft area -- just -- much softer and longer -- bring my. Cuts but Downey more than five and you can see this little thing and there he is not a cone has also changed in shape. So I bring my -- fall off down to let's say 25. Can we see that doubt because this really tight little home and default isn't a strong. So -- allowed to go in and control again you've got the the ability to make it stronger changed a columnist Dave we want to spotlight to be a green light. You know get this -- it's very strong. -- so it's mixing with that color on the -- this -- my -- what we like it still going to be kind of whitish looking -- get the general feel for you because you have blending in with that little you know SS off green kind of and effect there. So. Now that a continuation what happens here I turned on you feel like it kind of homeless disappeared and you see that the Internet is controlling this guy appear. And the -- is controlling this -- apart. This pretty much it will reduce the amount of light and how far it's going. This is especially important if let's just -- were robbed. Creating a car. It's cars going down the street this headlights when you want those headlights issue that it's foggy misty sea -- the light. Through through the the atmosphere so how far he's actually gonna going to go on forever. No -- so devaluation so that they're very bright tourism actual had glanced of that of the car and they spill out into. And that this is an at some point kinda. Become nothing soften up as it they do in real life when you're looking at a car traveling down foggy road you see those headlights going notebook across. They control it's I can go here and let's bringing. This outer that's since been this guy in. It's. Just about there and I start bringing might inner. Let's bring it into negative numbers I start bringing into negative numbers and you see that the little circle this going to save us to the minus ten. You have much that's gonna do to it. And obviously from what -- position obviously not enough. Let's go up on the -- a little bit and exceeded the others start to spread out and we should go back. So we can really get this seen that the slight way out there is good I like there's a spot. And this try to move -- way out of the scene. Way over here somewhere and start getting that little light appearing. -- go get something happening. Let's go in and bring this down. Going to some. And there is to have gone over to tell me -- what can be pretty much the same. It's going into the out of one and bring that in a bit. Go to this -- It's we bring this to this he would at twelve is gonna do on that one. There you go see now we brought in that inner the -- so now it's coming in -- at the edge so -- start to see it up here in here. This is just to have controlling did this is in which is ladies going to travels and how right now my spotlight is way out of the scene. But it is in fact reaching my card because -- I played around with the animation to get the little flight to appear at a certain point. Now and any time I turn -- Apple's little -- to disappear. That's just on these guys -- second and deal with the infinite light and create an infinite life and the infinite light. There you go got really bright and infinite light and it seemed to light sources again there's my infinite life but evidence light is. There's stray data as -- at a deeper color and justice go into they kind of a deep red like that he could see that it's gonna make it looks like life like kind of a color. Now the infinite life is pretty much kind of like it on -- like it's gonna light up the entire scene. So you go in there and play around with the position of the lights is that we do -- all the others. And and how much control over it. I hear -- now it's coming open the front there now that's above so it's not really -- scene which is playing with the direction in which that light. Is hitting are seen. And here is almost straight on. But there's so it's pretty bright. Moved at light over here there it is moved behind. Now it's not hitting they had all it's basically kind of like. The point light but not as pronounce it -- like the infinite life becomes kind of the sun so the sun isn't."

" Lighting up everything everything is very bright whereas the point lite is more like people so as co limited as to where that -- is gonna be cast. So if it lets just say for his is that we're creating this scene and it's that setting sun it's really hated it in the day. So you might want to take that infinite light and move it down quite a bit in May make it it really soft on -- or yellowish color system is to give it onions. That feeling of the settings on and then a lightbulb is in the see somewhere that light bulb goes on and on that like all. Has a point light which is then lighting the general area of that light ball which you control how far I like to go by playing with the continuation. And so on. This is the president going in their positioning satellites in plane went down. And getting all these nice effects. -- soft hues of the and the infinite light is almost like the bill that photographers use. -- the spotlights like these big ones edited to grant me an instant shooting in the so put a white card over here I don't have one but. If you're setting a photo photographic scenes and it looked just like this up a couple reflectors that kind of balances that light in and giving a more even color that's for the infinite lights on. Position quite a few infinite life such as the sun but a few other infinite likes to just lightens certain areas and getting to doctors again remember you were dealing with a three dimensional object here. That three dimensional object will cast shadows where the light is being blocked so like create an object like this and I -- there. Under here it's going to be dark it want to be too dark and set up an infinite -- below it is just gonna kinda balance often give little brightness in there. There are books on lighting photography and lighting -- scenes. Look at some of those three tournament to see and then play with lights got a couple little flashlights and move things around see the kind of shows you get and so on. The star studying how light works because in this case -- actually lighting the -- creating the shadows and highlights. You're actually doing them with actual lights. That there play with this stuff that's where I learned -- it won't what does that do push that -- see what it does have fun and play. If there's anything you'd like to see on the show email me expert at revision3.com. -- featured a performance at revision3.com. Forward slash forms we can join discussions about the show. Thanks again do what dean get them for submitting his background image to -- one more time."

" Yes but I like. Odd and if you want to put your thing back there is that it is green screen that we see here. Those who need it but -- stuff could be right there demoralize you forever. Send your designs to -- and revision3.com. And you're back on should be 1280 by 720 pixels and a JPEG file. -- through this remember to play best way to learn is to sit there and play this isn't work it's just playing around. Have fun and I'll see you next week."

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" This episode pixel perfect you've brought do you buy and Netflix and godaddy.com. Hello and welcome the pixel perfect would be Burton on the show where all kinds of things get done. They show up. Look at these lighting that's available in the new 3-D phone functions of push up extended. But first -- back -- back on today's show assent by dean Gibson. Look at this. If he went back -- drew either you know. I don't know what that. Unabomb behind me. Okay before we start. Let's thank our sponsors. Would start by thinking godaddy.com. Who makes it easy to customize your own virtual dedicated server. Two is one of three popular plans ports selector only an X or windows server with all the plan options you need. Pleasant to the -- pixel three did you see in this community there. And when you check out you can register your domain name for seven dollars and 49 cents seven what I would do that right now. Some restrictions -- apply it to the site for details get your -- Internet at godaddy.com."

" Also want to thank Netflix for sponsoring pixel perfect. -- Netflix you can rent over 90000. Titles online including lots of Blu-ray titles with free shipping both ways to your home. They now have over forty shipping centers so almost all deliveries happen in just one business day. The Netflix plans start from four dollars and 99 cents -- as a new member you can get a no risk two week free trial membership. Check it out at www. Netflix.com. But it's -- Pixel perfect and remember you do have that type in net WWW. When using this code. Quite some time ago John."

" Mac came on to show us CS four I was are talking about three B and I'm in -- so. And today and in the coming week I showed little bits and pieces here to get to kind of -- that it does in fact. This weekend actually gonna talk about the lighting. And -- things that we can -- Iran would like to sit and look at the actual lighting features and what they do. Some go in here and I'm in my Photoshop here -- a sudden you file. Might stand a little. Go file of 900 by 600 so let's make this 900 wide. By 600 it. And to make it RGB. I came -- you'll notice that pretty much showtime among the show here I do a resolution savvy to it matters 600 and some people ask me. Is that the resolution easy work that well no I don't work at that. What are resembling answer to BP -- visiting I'm doing here is purely for the screen. I and I can be at a 100% to conceal the detail that so that we accepted sometimes get. And also things happen fast if ever gonna kind of files that I normally work on which again 480 DPI. Then I'm gonna say and he is a filter and okay so now what's his way through the filter to come around then we're still waiting for the felt there. And appear on anything you can't have that we need things happened really quickly site look at low resolutions for the purpose of discrete. Course it is something for the web. Animals organism to -- but that's silly to the API and that particular dimensions is what gives me decides that I need for this demos and the demos only. You should be working not your resolution should be twice that don't screen. Have to mean what you want for that magazine and and so on is that 150 line screen you need 300 BP I it's that are set. But that's what I worked at. On the screen on the show seventy PI. So now. I'm gonna just invert this background in a command I it to get black so we have nice black background and how to create layer. Couldn't you layer right here and it's got nice color -- just Jessica and his new leg that in the film that would dampen it. So -- out there right there that is created I'm going to turn that into a we postcard. That Reno attorney and fifth meeting postcard is that way I can go in there and play around with the likes to -- to see how they're going to work. I'm gonna go into my a three controls here. And I'm gonna shrink it down out you know that go right to the block here we're going to -- shrink it down a little bit like that. And I'm gonna do a little rotation on it -- go to this guy which allows me to. Do that and feedback to see exactly which win going to be rotating -- I can rotate and like that -- I know exactly where I'm I'm working so I'm. Who in this way residences kind of."

" Playing around the screen I can actually see where things are going and I'm gonna -- my removed so I just bring it over just a little bit. Right there like that. Now this post guys just a -- to step flat plane and -- it is going to start playing with my lights secrecy the kind of lights that are available. Now. Usually when you create some shape with so what and yet. The creation tools there ought to go to the three panel they'll be all these light source is when you click on the light they'll be all these. Like so as it usually three. Infinite lights. -- but right now I've started with a -- like to go on no lights on the scene right now as we just seen the blue card. Floating in space the -- solid because the original. Color for that there was that's all of do there's not to mention here except pretty. Actual movement but this little dimension as far as lighting is concerned and that's where the light sources command. I keep in mind when you're working at 3-D it basically almost like playing like photographer. You're delighting the scene you gotta go and you're set up all the moods they're going to make -- single real. -- is not just angle it's also should be shading is gonna create that debt now in my two detainees have always mention that I. Put a gradient and everything that little gradient adds that the mention in the case of the 3-D. You're actually lighting it to get those radiance. So now we have three different light sources we have a point light we have a spotlight and we had the infinite -- ID at three totally different lights. You can change he's nights at any time goes after you've created a particular like do want to change it from this. Not to appoint you can. But -- look at what these guys well. Look like. Now up -- point -- I'm gonna start with point and -- here say give me a new point -- down here. Click on it and I gotta point right now it looks like nothing happened. And that's because my point my right now came in centered it is seen. And my card and a postcard is a little forward. So is actually hiding. The life behind it so right now on the other side is both art is very bright back there the front is still this ought to do. We're gonna do is I'm gonna move that light in space so it comes in front of my -- And I could see up here that in the panel I had that -- selected and these guys out here. Deal with the light. McCain as opposed to these other guys that do would be object. And this little guy appear deals with the object I'm dealing with the actual light so the play -- these this one right here. And it lets me move in and out a space vote they. The -- out the lights coming in and out and there is disappeared again. Tell you what let's see the light. Clicking on this little guy right here allows me to see the light now -- behind so we'll see is -- what I bring it forward. There's a light and it bears my life. There's a light source. Get it and I've put it in front of the the the Coast Guard Nate is he's going right through the postcard. -- eight and the actual light is now behind a postcard and now its in front that the post card. So that is my point like the point light is very strong and very powerful. Affect and so on but I'm going to imply that I can increase the intensity is you to right now. And and I can go in there and change its conferences to set like a nice red logo and then change it to -- red click okay and I could see that we had -- read. Highlight showing here now report -- is doing is -- you turn on and the light -- in all directions. It's pretty strong like there. There's creating this effect not -- emulation. -- coming -- a few minutes ago but that will control the amount of light that this is that that light is traveling but we'll get that and -- Okay so now we got dissolve like them not justice bring it out here a little more its way out here can now let go in here and add a new. Spotlight. There's a spotlight now that came in centered and you can see it's pointing outward. So what we're doing going to come in here and bring this life sort. A little bit and I want to twirled it around some of the when you say twelve this so that it's pointing into the scenes they. I'm pointing at. Directly onto. I postcard. There it is. That's in the back a little bit. Okay and -- a little more so we get more of this bill and -- But I -- that's good now. These controls here hot button -- these really pertain very it's going to be. The spotlight not a spotlight is like -- normal spotlight it's shooting the lights straight out. It's shooting these sites. Now you have paid hot spot and the fall ballot passover legacy that you get this little indicating here is a hot spot which is to central com all of my life. Is the falloff that's set -- area. That out out of area the larger. That I want the spotlight to be really sharp that I don't have the hot button fall off very close and number it can't be exact as to be a degree off. It won't let you if you tried to make -- exactly you can't do that and -- tell you what you should be. If you want to be really soft and you give it a lot of cool off and keep the hot spot kind of small that we get a really. Opening night though. You can do that better with that point like to get back kind of an effect but the spotlight here. -- you see that right now this edges kind of soft so -- going -- air and reduce my hot button -- just moved my idea Chris over the words and reduce the size of my hot spot if I would just type in and it was just make this a fifteen. And code and its that if you get the hot spot became soft and smaller and I'm gonna increase the full of to say 85. Okay nice it would it has big soft area -- just -- much softer and longer -- bring my. Cuts but Downey more than five and you can see this little thing and there he is not a cone has also changed in shape. So I bring my -- fall off down to let's say 25. Can we see that doubt because this really tight little home and default isn't a strong. So -- allowed to go in and control again you've got the the ability to make it stronger changed a columnist Dave we want to spotlight to be a green light. You know get this -- it's very strong. -- so it's mixing with that color on the -- this -- my -- what we like it still going to be kind of whitish looking -- get the general feel for you because you have blending in with that little you know SS off green kind of and effect there. So. Now that a continuation what happens here I turned on you feel like it kind of homeless disappeared and you see that the Internet is controlling this guy appear. And the -- is controlling this -- apart. This pretty much it will reduce the amount of light and how far it's going. This is especially important if let's just -- were robbed. Creating a car. It's cars going down the street this headlights when you want those headlights issue that it's foggy misty sea -- the light. Through through the the atmosphere so how far he's actually gonna going to go on forever. No -- so devaluation so that they're very bright tourism actual had glanced of that of the car and they spill out into. And that this is an at some point kinda. Become nothing soften up as it they do in real life when you're looking at a car traveling down foggy road you see those headlights going notebook across. They control it's I can go here and let's bringing. This outer that's since been this guy in. It's. Just about there and I start bringing might inner. Let's bring it into negative numbers I start bringing into negative numbers and you see that the little circle this going to save us to the minus ten. You have much that's gonna do to it. And obviously from what -- position obviously not enough. Let's go up on the -- a little bit and exceeded the others start to spread out and we should go back. So we can really get this seen that the slight way out there is good I like there's a spot. And this try to move -- way out of the scene. Way over here somewhere and start getting that little light appearing. -- go get something happening. Let's go in and bring this down. Going to some. And there is to have gone over to tell me -- what can be pretty much the same. It's going into the out of one and bring that in a bit. Go to this -- It's we bring this to this he would at twelve is gonna do on that one. There you go see now we brought in that inner the -- so now it's coming in -- at the edge so -- start to see it up here in here. This is just to have controlling did this is in which is ladies going to travels and how right now my spotlight is way out of the scene. But it is in fact reaching my card because -- I played around with the animation to get the little flight to appear at a certain point. Now and any time I turn -- Apple's little -- to disappear. That's just on these guys -- second and deal with the infinite light and create an infinite life and the infinite light. There you go got really bright and infinite light and it seemed to light sources again there's my infinite life but evidence light is. There's stray data as -- at a deeper color and justice go into they kind of a deep red like that he could see that it's gonna make it looks like life like kind of a color. Now the infinite life is pretty much kind of like it on -- like it's gonna light up the entire scene. So you go in there and play around with the position of the lights is that we do -- all the others. And and how much control over it. I hear -- now it's coming open the front there now that's above so it's not really -- scene which is playing with the direction in which that light. Is hitting are seen. And here is almost straight on. But there's so it's pretty bright. Moved at light over here there it is moved behind. Now it's not hitting they had all it's basically kind of like. The point light but not as pronounce it -- like the infinite life becomes kind of the sun so the sun isn't."

" Lighting up everything everything is very bright whereas the point lite is more like people so as co limited as to where that -- is gonna be cast. So if it lets just say for his is that we're creating this scene and it's that setting sun it's really hated it in the day. So you might want to take that infinite light and move it down quite a bit in May make it it really soft on -- or yellowish color system is to give it onions. That feeling of the settings on and then a lightbulb is in the see somewhere that light bulb goes on and on that like all. Has a point light which is then lighting the general area of that light ball which you control how far I like to go by playing with the continuation. And so on. This is the president going in their positioning satellites in plane went down. And getting all these nice effects. -- soft hues of the and the infinite light is almost like the bill that photographers use. -- the spotlights like these big ones edited to grant me an instant shooting in the so put a white card over here I don't have one but. If you're setting a photo photographic scenes and it looked just like this up a couple reflectors that kind of balances that light in and giving a more even color that's for the infinite lights on. Position quite a few infinite life such as the sun but a few other infinite likes to just lightens certain areas and getting to doctors again remember you were dealing with a three dimensional object here. That three dimensional object will cast shadows where the light is being blocked so like create an object like this and I -- there. Under here it's going to be dark it want to be too dark and set up an infinite -- below it is just gonna kinda balance often give little brightness in there. There are books on lighting photography and lighting -- scenes. Look at some of those three tournament to see and then play with lights got a couple little flashlights and move things around see the kind of shows you get and so on. The star studying how light works because in this case -- actually lighting the -- creating the shadows and highlights. You're actually doing them with actual lights. That there play with this stuff that's where I learned -- it won't what does that do push that -- see what it does have fun and play. If there's anything you'd like to see on the show email me expert at revision3.com. -- featured a performance at revision3.com. Forward slash forms we can join discussions about the show. Thanks again do what dean get them for submitting his background image to -- one more time."

" Yes but I like. Odd and if you want to put your thing back there is that it is green screen that we see here. Those who need it but -- stuff could be right there demoralize you forever. Send your designs to -- and revision3.com. And you're back on should be 1280 by 720 pixels and a JPEG file. -- through this remember to play best way to learn is to sit there and play this isn't work it's just playing around. Have fun and I'll see you next week."

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Started discussion: April 13, 2009 @ 9:14am GMT

Episode 121 - 3D Lighting Tips in Adobe Photoshop [Discussion]

3D functionality is a huge part of Adobe Photoshop CS4. Bert shows you some tips in applying light sources to your 3D projects.

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