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Light It Up In Photoshop!

Sunday, October 11th, 2009 – running time 24:58
Learn best practices for lighting your canvas in Adobe Photoshop.

Bert explains the study of light and it's effect on objects. Shadows, hotspots and other effects can be learned and emulated by simply opening your eyes and observing the way light travels. There is no guess work with shadows, and it's important to get your art to copy real life.

With basic shapes, layers, filters, and 3D effects, you will learn how to reproduce the effects of light in Photoshop. In this example, Bert uses two shapes (a ball and rod) on top of a custom texture with a single source of light. Watch and learn!

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Highlights

shadow: 3:29, 6:19
nighttime: 0:56, 2:41
darker: 6:44
layer: 4:10, 5:43, 6:24

Automatically Generated Transcript

May not be 100% accurate

" War."

" This episode of pixel perfect is brought to you by Netflix and godaddy.com. Where. It's just the program would -- to show are all kinds of things happen. On today's show. And -- a bunch of questions that came up about. Lighting things how to create the moods and the lights and how to pick an object can take it from daytime to nighttime is so want. So the -- a lot of different steps a lot of the things that. But first let's look at this background it was sent to us by Scott Cain and if I said that one wrong I'm really in trouble. Scott's job is this on here look at this. Blue. Water here is really cool and I'm gonna benefit. By Walter Reed go right there looking over my elementary don't screw this up before we start at stake our sponsors. Godaddy.com makes it easy customize your virtual dedicated server. Choose one of three popular plans or select your own Linux or windows server with all the plan options you need. President of the coat pixel four when you check out to save an additional 15% of any order of 75 dollars or more. Also be sure to check out their revision3.com. Forward slash godaddy for all the pixel perfect godaddy deals and codes and the whole bunch of long there. But you know some restrictions apply. Is his site for details get your piece of the Internet at godaddy.com. But what bank Netflix for sponsoring pixel perfect. And would then the Netflix you can rent over 90000. Titles online. Including lots of Blu-ray titles with free shipping both ways to go home 90000 to stay home for the rest of yellow light -- just watch movies. Netflix plans start from as little as four dollars and 99 cents. And as a new member you can get a no risk two week free trial membership check it out at www. Netflix.com. Forward slash pixel perfect. And yes you do have to type in net WWW. We used his coat. So let's get into the show now I got an email this story about a guys have meat to cars about it make it nighttime and all. Basically it's it's really a question of studying light. And the effects it has -- objects. Whether it's daylight or tungsten light whatever it is it has an effect on objects they cast shadows and other objects and so on and create hotspots. And things like that. -- and and stuff. Easy just book look at things versus say yeah I got on this one window right here. I've shown -- before I show him what his does this very thing five eighths to saves -- I use in my welcomes and take here and show. I put it on the stand and I took a piece of paper and -- bold and until those decades that you see here. And then I get that little pan just to see how the -- traveled along the staircase I don't guess that the way that's going to work. I don't guess at how light is gonna work on guess about shadow gonna be cast because. About the good to me but it might be wrong and it's wrong the president look at that that picture's gonna see it right away they -- know why it's wrong but they're gonna see that that looks only. So it's important to get things the way they work and that's just a question of opening your eyes and looking at the world around you. Making little models like I did there to study how shadows work. -- you're -- today then here I got. A blank screen and I created this we'll circle this old boy all the rules say and -- the -- these two objects are gonna be in this scene at different times."

" Of the day so I don't wanna do first is getting a little ground plane to sit on so the idea of a clear layer above the background has -- these guys often now. Agonized brown caller. So kind of so the thing -- brown. It's going there and say for -- caller -- percent yet to get there it is and out of Illinois. Gonna give us some -- lot of noise like that and maybe give it a little crack in York. Just give little extra though text you're going on in there that is my -- ground kind of texture right okay so that's looking good. And click okay and there's my little ground plane which are now wanna turn into ground thanks I want to kind of the little Texas to get smaller towards the back and so on. With the least amount distortion to make it look as realistic as possible so when -- to do it and it turns into a 380 plane. And opponents say new greeting postcard from later. And it created a postcard and here comes anything and you'll see a change here. As things that happens there and it is now created three plane was taken out take and rotate. And -- and rotate this like that. Instead of getting smaller towards the back against small of the way you want to be just like that and then getting closer on this. There's just switch to up the story of a sudden getting real close on it and let's bring it down a little bit. Down to -- about like that. That's the other guys that they are not just sitting on an actual plane. I think that -- guy and he's going to say -- restaurants restaurants the later. That is all -- three layers just a regular flat layer that can play around with the get all the tones and Iowa. All right so now we're gonna do do this thing. And donors -- to establish certain clothes and effects and things to make this thing look right. So. And go in here and start playing with this -- go in here and and create. In my ball under the capable. And -- right here and this one on top of an unlocked the transparency. And look fill that with a black. Right. So. That's going to be to balls. Inside shadow. And a reason I'm creating that instead of a layer style is because. I want to take a certain affect certain shape and so on you'll see this all happen. Now first and -- look at this early morning dawn. So back here in the background it's gonna be -- sky I'm gonna pick some kind of dawn collars -- get a really pale blue very pale blue like that. And a slightly darker pale blue than this slightly darker. Slightly and throw in a little gradient -- there. -- like that I got this really pale color right so now. The -- It's being lit by this is like way out there somewhere like that so what I'm gonna do is gonna give this the ball itself. A drop shadow. I'm going to mind -- styles and given a drop shadows there's my drop shadow. Click okay. -- fine but I'm going to separate that drop shadow. From the layer so that I have. Something to work with multiple times and a vote here is say create layer which is gonna turn the drop shadow into its own later that there. So now. -- all the black bull on top of the blue ball going to walk the trans oh clip it with the ball like that."

" War."

" This episode of pixel perfect is brought to you by Netflix and godaddy.com. Where. It's just the program would -- to show are all kinds of things happen. On today's show. And -- a bunch of questions that came up about. Lighting things how to create the moods and the lights and how to pick an object can take it from daytime to nighttime is so want. So the -- a lot of different steps a lot of the things that. But first let's look at this background it was sent to us by Scott Cain and if I said that one wrong I'm really in trouble. Scott's job is this on here look at this. Blue. Water here is really cool and I'm gonna benefit. By Walter Reed go right there looking over my elementary don't screw this up before we start at stake our sponsors. Godaddy.com makes it easy customize your virtual dedicated server. Choose one of three popular plans or select your own Linux or windows server with all the plan options you need. President of the coat pixel four when you check out to save an additional 15% of any order of 75 dollars or more. Also be sure to check out their revision3.com. Forward slash godaddy for all the pixel perfect godaddy deals and codes and the whole bunch of long there. But you know some restrictions apply. Is his site for details get your piece of the Internet at godaddy.com. But what bank Netflix for sponsoring pixel perfect. And would then the Netflix you can rent over 90000. Titles online. Including lots of Blu-ray titles with free shipping both ways to go home 90000 to stay home for the rest of yellow light -- just watch movies. Netflix plans start from as little as four dollars and 99 cents. And as a new member you can get a no risk two week free trial membership check it out at www. Netflix.com. Forward slash pixel perfect. And yes you do have to type in net WWW. We used his coat. So let's get into the show now I got an email this story about a guys have meat to cars about it make it nighttime and all. Basically it's it's really a question of studying light. And the effects it has -- objects. Whether it's daylight or tungsten light whatever it is it has an effect on objects they cast shadows and other objects and so on and create hotspots. And things like that. -- and and stuff. Easy just book look at things versus say yeah I got on this one window right here. I've shown -- before I show him what his does this very thing five eighths to saves -- I use in my welcomes and take here and show. I put it on the stand and I took a piece of paper and -- bold and until those decades that you see here. And then I get that little pan just to see how the -- traveled along the staircase I don't guess that the way that's going to work. I don't guess at how light is gonna work on guess about shadow gonna be cast because. About the good to me but it might be wrong and it's wrong the president look at that that picture's gonna see it right away they -- know why it's wrong but they're gonna see that that looks only. So it's important to get things the way they work and that's just a question of opening your eyes and looking at the world around you. Making little models like I did there to study how shadows work. -- you're -- today then here I got. A blank screen and I created this we'll circle this old boy all the rules say and -- the -- these two objects are gonna be in this scene at different times."

" Of the day so I don't wanna do first is getting a little ground plane to sit on so the idea of a clear layer above the background has -- these guys often now. Agonized brown caller. So kind of so the thing -- brown. It's going there and say for -- caller -- percent yet to get there it is and out of Illinois. Gonna give us some -- lot of noise like that and maybe give it a little crack in York. Just give little extra though text you're going on in there that is my -- ground kind of texture right okay so that's looking good. And click okay and there's my little ground plane which are now wanna turn into ground thanks I want to kind of the little Texas to get smaller towards the back and so on. With the least amount distortion to make it look as realistic as possible so when -- to do it and it turns into a 380 plane. And opponents say new greeting postcard from later. And it created a postcard and here comes anything and you'll see a change here. As things that happens there and it is now created three plane was taken out take and rotate. And -- and rotate this like that. Instead of getting smaller towards the back against small of the way you want to be just like that and then getting closer on this. There's just switch to up the story of a sudden getting real close on it and let's bring it down a little bit. Down to -- about like that. That's the other guys that they are not just sitting on an actual plane. I think that -- guy and he's going to say -- restaurants restaurants the later. That is all -- three layers just a regular flat layer that can play around with the get all the tones and Iowa. All right so now we're gonna do do this thing. And donors -- to establish certain clothes and effects and things to make this thing look right. So. And go in here and start playing with this -- go in here and and create. In my ball under the capable. And -- right here and this one on top of an unlocked the transparency. And look fill that with a black. Right. So. That's going to be to balls. Inside shadow. And a reason I'm creating that instead of a layer style is because. I want to take a certain affect certain shape and so on you'll see this all happen. Now first and -- look at this early morning dawn. So back here in the background it's gonna be -- sky I'm gonna pick some kind of dawn collars -- get a really pale blue very pale blue like that. And a slightly darker pale blue than this slightly darker. Slightly and throw in a little gradient -- there. -- like that I got this really pale color right so now. The -- It's being lit by this is like way out there somewhere like that so what I'm gonna do is gonna give this the ball itself. A drop shadow. I'm going to mind -- styles and given a drop shadows there's my drop shadow. Click okay. -- fine but I'm going to separate that drop shadow. From the layer so that I have. Something to work with multiple times and a vote here is say create layer which is gonna turn the drop shadow into its own later that there. So now. -- all the black bull on top of the blue ball going to walk the trans oh clip it with the ball like that."

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