All language subtitles for 42-CreatingASpotlightInPhotoshop.mp4

What do you do with

the spotlights, or what do you do when
you want to add a little bit more haze?

So what I'm going to do here is a fun
little Photoshop trick.

I'm going to create a spotlight.

Now I'm going to create it in the same
way that I'm going to play this up.

I'm going to follow what's already
there, and it's basically just going to

make it look stronger.

So this is going to be done in a couple
of steps.

One, I create the color,

then I change the blending mode,

and then I use a gradient

to two effect, fall off.

So what I'm going to do here is use my
polygonal lasso

to make

the line just kind of, I guess about
here may be

probably something like that, that's a
guess.

So I'm going to create a solid color
fill layer,

which turns this selection into my mask.

And I'm just going to sample, I don't
know, maybe like this bright yellow,

orange color, something like this.

The color of the light,

change the blend mode

to something like

screen.

And then we lower the opacity,

and it's starting to look

close,

doesn't look like a light yet.

Two things.

One,

the edge is too hard.

So what do we do?

We select the mask

and you go to mask properties.

And so

if you used to be, when you double
click on the mask, properties would

come up.

Now it brings up like select and mask.

But properties is the same thing as
when you select an adjustment.

Layer.

It's the same window,

ok?

So this is a mask property.

You can also get there by going to
window and properties,

right?

Increase the feather,

soft edge.

Ok?

Now, what do I do?

I need to put a gradient on it.

I don't want to put a gradient on this.

I can.

But

what if I just put a gradient on top of
it?

Well, unfortunately, you can't mask a
mask

unless

you group something with itself,

because then you can put a mask on that
group.

And so one thing is grouped with
itself, so that you can layer a mask.

And so my original

layer

had that a mask, where it was the light.

But now all I have to do is grab my
gradient tool or George,

and I can put it right on top,

and I can make it look however I want,

strong

subtle,

lower the opacity,

feather it a little bit more.

Make it brighter,

brighter,

nope,

less bright,

feathered soft, like, what do you want
it to look like?

You can make it look however you want.

And the cool thing is is, you could
take this, you could duplicate it the

other side, or you could just as easily
do it again.

When it, create another one,

solid color,

that same color.

It's kind of something like that.

Change the blend mode.

I'm going to make it its own group.

Change the blend mode to screen,

lower the opacity,

feather it,

group it with itself

command g,

and then add that

gradient.

Now what I would probably do here is

kind of mask it a little bit off.

Her

it's the wrong one,

just because that's what it would be
doing.

Bring a little bit off

so that my mask looks like that.

And now what I've got

is something that is a much more amped
up version of

the spotlight.

And you can create lights in the same
way.

You tend to want to

layer lights a little bit

with,

like, a middle, because lights are
multid.

There's more than just

a solid color.

So maybe what you do is you come in and
you dodge hoops, you dodge the inside,

maybe

that's what you do.

Or maybe you come in and you paint,

paint soft light, like a bright white
color

over the inside,

something like that.

Lower the opacity,

and that helps you to create

that highlight.

You can blur this as well, but there
are all different ways for you to

create this effect.

This is just

one of them.

And so this

is, again, not where I finish it,

but it's come a long way

in a pretty short amount of time.

And I guess I'm not making the
spotlights, it's just

helping them out a little bit