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[Zorana Gee] [Senior Product Manager, Photoshop] In Photoshop CS6, we brought back
the lighting effects filter with significant improvements.
Not only are we now leveraging the Mercury Graphics Engine
for tremendous performance boosts, but we also have full-screen previews
and on-canvas controls for easier editing.
This is really a great filter for anyone who wants to manipulate the lighting of an image
after the image was already shot.
Here I have an image that I want to adjust the lighting
for a little bit more drama.
I'll go ahead and first convert this to a smart object
so that I can maintain the original image intact.
Then I'll come up here to Filter, Render,
Lighting Effects, and now I'm in the dialog.
Now, by default, we have a spot light.
I can go ahead and adjust the scale width,
the length, the brightness, the hotspot.
I can even change this to a different light.
The Point light is literally a point of light that I can move around here.
And the Infinite light can be thought of as sunlight
where I can click on the source here
and rotate the position and the direction of the light.
Now, for this particular project, I actually want to add a Spot light.
Now you see that I've added this lighting effect filter as a smart filter.
I can double click here and go back and re-edit this at any time.
I'll make a couple more tweaks and click Okay.
Now, I like the way this lighting is for this image.
I'll add a couple of adjustment layers for increased contrast,
and now I like the look much better.
The Lighting Effects plugin in Photoshop CS6
creates a really great effect.
[Adobe]
