Lighting Effects
Changing the lighting on a photo is a great way to focus on a specific area of a photo, or to correct the lighting in a photo by making it lighter and darker in certain areas. This is especially useful if there is a light source in the photo.
To access your lighting options, click on Filter > Render > Lighting Effects
To access your lighting options, click on Filter > Render > Lighting Effects
If you choose a style that has multiple lights, you must set options for each light individually.
Light Type
Contains these options for each light in the selected style,
Properties
Contains these options for the image you’re shining the light on
- 2 O’ Clock Spotlight: Adds one yellow spotlight with medium intensity and wide focus.
- Blue Omni: Adds a blue overhead omni light with full intensity and no focus.
- Circle Of Light: Adds four spotlights. White has full intensity and a concentrated focus. Yellow has strong intensity and a concentrated focus. Red has medium intensity and a concentrated focus. Blue has full intensity and medium focus.
- Crossing Adds: one white spotlight with medium intensity and a wide focus.
- Crossing Down: Adds two white spotlights with medium intensity and a wide focus.
- Default: Adds a white spotlight with a medium intensity and a wide focus.
- Five Lights Down/Five Lights Up: Add five white spotlights down or up with full intensity and wide focus.
- Flashlight: Adds an omni yellow light with medium intensity.
- Flood Light: Produces a medium intensity and wide focus white spotlight.
- Parallel Directional: Is a blue light with full intensity and no focus, or a white directional light with medium intensity and no focus.
- RGB Lights: Are red, green, and blue lights producing a light of medium intensity and wide focus.
- Soft Direct Lights: Adds two unfocused white (soft intensity) and blue (medium intensity) directional lights.
- Soft Omni: Is a soft omni light of medium intensity.
- Soft Spotlight: Is a white spotlight with full intensity and wide (100) focus.
- Three Down: Adds three white spotlights with medium intensity and wide focus.
- Triple Spotlight: Adds three spotlights with medium intensity and wide focus.
Light Type
Contains these options for each light in the selected style,
- On: Turns the selected light on or off in the preview window. This is useful if your lighting effects style uses multiple lights and you want to look at a particular light.
- Intensity: Specifies the light’s brightness.
- Focus: Specifies the width of the beam of light.
- Color box: Displays the Color Picker so you can change the color of the light. Click this white box to use it.
Properties
Contains these options for the image you’re shining the light on
- Gloss: Determines how much the surface reflects light, from Matte (low reflectance) to Shiny (high reflectance).
- Material: Determines whether the light or the object on which the light is cast reflects more light. Plastic reflects the light’s color; Metallic reflects the object’s color.
- Exposure: Increases the light (positive values) or decreases the light (negative values). A value of 0 has no effect.
- Ambience: Diffuses the light as if it were combined with other light in a room, such as sunlight or fluorescent light. Choose a value of 100 to use only the light source, or a value of ‑100 to completely diffuse the light source.
- Colour box: Displays the Color Picker so you can change the color of the ambient light. Click this white box to use it.