How To Add Color Light In Photoshop

In this video, yous're going to larn EXACTLY how to professional person movie poster designers create and apply rim light in Photoshop

The technique that you are going to larn today was used past Lisa Carney, who is a professional person finisher (movie poster designer), on the 10-Men: Days flick poster. Lisa has as well worked on film posters similar Spider-Human being: Far From Home, Mary Poppins Returns, Hereditary, and more!

When y'all are creating Hollywood flick posters, attending to detail is e'er a must, and the rim calorie-free event helps to highlight each of the characters and not drown in the number of other elements incorporated in the concluding prototype.

Are you fix to larn this Hollywood technique?

Showtime with a Prepared Document
How to Create a Photo Filter
Create the Rim Lite from the Highlights
Create the Container layer
Reveal the Rim Light event with a Mask
Use the Color Rest Adjustment to Colorize the Rim Calorie-free
Adjust Contrast with a Curves Adjustment Layer
Add More than to the Effect
Switching the Background and Photograph Filter
Tutorial Files

Start with a Prepared Document

On the Layers panel, there are 2 groups that contain all the images used in this tutorial:

Background
Adult female

The Background group contains three different layers: Black, Warm, and Cool.

The Adult female group contains the removed groundwork in a layer mask, a Warm filter, and a Cool filter.

These Photograph Filters will be used to set up the temperature of the photograph when we compile all the assets afterward.

How to Create a Photo Filter

To create a Photo Filter, go to the bottom of your Layers panel and click on the New Adjustment Layer icon and select Photo Filter.

On the Backdrop panel, click on the Filter driblet-down carte and select the Warming Filter or the Cooling Filter.

Create the Rim Low-cal from the Highlights

Starting with the Black background showtime, use a technique chosen a "Channel pull" where you use an Alpha channel to pull the highlights of the photo and use that extraction for the ground of our rim light.

Go to your Channels console and see all the RGB channels that brand up your photo.

Create a new channel by clicking on the Channel icon. Initially, it appears as black to indicate the lack of aqueduct.

Next, make a selection effectually the highlights of the image. To do that, y'all have 2 options:

Hold Ctrl (Windows) or Command (macOS) and click on the RGB composite thumbnail to load the bright areas every bit the selection.

To load the brightness of the prototype with a shortcut, printing Ctrl Alt 2 (Windows) or Control Pick 2 (macOS). Take note of the right side of each aqueduct to see which number corresponds with each aqueduct.

For example: To load the Bluish channel, press Ctrl Alt 5 (Windows) or Control Option 5 (macOS).

With the brightness selected, make full the selection with the color white. Since yous have white as my Foreground color, you lot can press Alt Backspace (Windows) or Option Delete (macOS).

Note: If your layer does not automatically fill up, get to your Layers panel and make sure a Group is selected to perform the activeness.

Then, printing Ctrl D (Windows) or Command D (macOS) to deselect.

With the Blastoff channel selected, go to Image > Adjustments > Curves. You lot can use this adjustment to requite the aqueduct more dissimilarity and brand the highlights pop by creating an "South" curve.

Click on this area to create a point and elevate it downwards to darken the shadows.

Then click on this area to create another point and drag it up to burnish the highlights.

The "S" bend should only be the foundation, and then feel complimentary to fine-melody the curve and reveal the more than details of the image.

Then, press OK to shut the window.

On your Toolbar, select the Dodge tool and fix the Range to Highlights.

PRO TIP: To reduce or enlarge the brush size, yous can printing the [ or the ] key on your keyboard.

Use the Contrivance tool to bring out some of the highlights of the image and expand the area where the rim low-cal effect will be applied.

With our Alpha aqueduct numbered as 6, press Ctrl Alt six (Windows) or Command Option 6 (macOS) to load the luminosity of this channel as a selection.

Click on the RGB channel to enable all layers and so get back to the Layers console.

Create a new layer and rename it as "Highlight Aqueduct Pull."

Set the color white(#ffffff) equally the Background color.

And then, press Ctrl Backspace (Windows) or Command Delete (macOS) to fill the current selection with white.

Deselect the option past pressing Ctrl D (Windows) or Command D (macOS).

To farther heighten the effect, create a new layer underneath the Highlight Channel Pull layer.

Become to the Woman group and re-create the layer mask of the subject past holding the Alt (Windows) or Option (macOS) key, then clicking-and-dragging the layer mask onto the new layer and releasing the mouse.

Create the Container layer

Sett the colour blackness(#000000) every bit the Foreground colour.

Then, printing Alt Backspace (Windows) or Option Delete (macOS) to fill the pick with black.

If you hide the Background layer, yous can see the cool rim light effect!

Rename the new layer every bit "Container" and fix the Blending Mode to Screen to make the black pixels invisible.

Side by side, select the Highlight Channel Pull and press Ctrl Alt G (Windows) or Command Option Grand (macOS) to clip it to the layer beneath

Reveal the Rim Calorie-free effect with a Mask

Create a New Layer Mask by belongings Alt (Windows) or Option (macOS) and click on the Layer Mask icon to hibernate all the pixels on the Highlights Channel Pull layer.

Select the Brush tool on your Toolbar and set the Foreground color to white(#ffffff)

Use the Brush tool to paint on the subject area where you want to employ the rim light effect.

If there are some areas where you want to add highlights, click on the New Layer icon to create a new layer and press Ctrl Alt (Windows) or Control Choice (macOS).

And so, rename the layer to "Painted Highlights."

Utilise the Brush tool to paint on areas where a highlight would add a more than dramatic effect to the phoo. (due east.g. the outline of her earrings or parts of her garment)

Use the Color Balance Adjustment to Colorize the Rim Light

Since our image is in black and white, use color to the epitome by clicking on the New Adjustment Layer icon and selecting the Color Residuum.

On the Properties panel, click on the Clipping Mask icon to clip it to the layer below.

On the Tones' drop-downwards menu, you tin switch between Shadows, Midtone, and Highlights to apply colour.

Starting with the Highlights, make sure to check the box for Preserve Luminosity.

If you are working with a warm groundwork, start with the warm highlights by adjusting the slider and dragging it to the right to add more than Blood-red.

On Midtones, you lot can add more Red and a tiny chip of Yellow.

On the Shadows, you tin add more Red with no Yellow.

Through the Color Rest, you tin individually add more shade to your image.

If I go back to my Container layer and set the Blending Mode to Screen, I tin see the adjustments made from the Colour Residual.

To see how the consequence looks on a warm background, select the Container layer > concur Shift > select the Color Residual layer > press Ctrl G (Windows) or Command G (macOS) to compile all the layers into a Group.

Then, rename the Group into "Rim Light."

Adjust Contrast with a Curves Aligning Layer

Open up the Adult female group and color class the subject with the Warm Filter by enabling the layer.

Open the Background group besides and enable the Warm background layer to apply it behind the field of study.

Since the discipline is backlit, you can enhance the consequence by concealment it by going to the bottom of the Layers panel and clicking on the New Adjustment layer and selecting Curves.

On the Properties panel, add some other Southward curve past following this germination:

Since yous have applied a background, you can now adjust the rim calorie-free issue by reducing the Cerise and calculation more than Yellowish to match it accurately with the background.

Add More to the Effect

Take this time to add together more to the rim lighting effect by fine-tuning details or adding new adjustment layers. You lot can add a new layer in the Rim Light grouping and utilize the Castor tool to pigment more light on the field of study.

Switching the Groundwork and Photo Filter

If you don't see the current composite fit for the mode you desire to execute, you lot tin can easily switch the background past going to the Groundwork group and disabling the Warm background layer.

Then, enable the Cool background layer.

Get to the Woman grouping > disable the Warm Photo Filter > enable the Cool Photo Filter to match the colour temperature of the background perfectly.

Under the Rim Light group, you tin can go back and arrange the Colour Balance and click on the Reset icon to reset the sliders to the default adjustment.

Then, prepare the Tone to Highlights.

From here, drag the sliders to add more blue tones to the highlights by increasing the corporeality of Cyan and Blue.

For the Midtones, amplify the Cyan and Bluish.

On the Shadows, you can add a chip of Magenta for a pop of color. This adjustment relies entirely upward to you, depending on the groundwork you are working with.

The Colour Rest helps you add hues from your background and amplify the current colors in your bailiwick to friction match them together.

Since you lot are working not-destructively, you tin can undo these adjustments, disable these layers, or refine the layer mask by using the Castor tool and painting with blackness to hide the applied furnishings.

Tutorial Files

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