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Usually I don't share my quick studies, but maybe someone else can benefit from this too.

This is something I learnt from an art class I'm following on schoolism.com. Basically you paint something in neutral overcast light and then use adjustment layers to alter the lighting.

So I grabbed some items and spent an hour painting them in an uninteresting lighting. Then I dropped the intensity of the image (hue/saturation/lightness filter) with an adjustment layer and started painting the light by masking it out. I made the effect stronger by painting some warm tone in an addition layer, also covering the bounce light in shadows. Finally there's some warmth added at the edge of the strong light (bloom effect).

Doing the lights separately allows you to try out different lighting setups without repainting the whole thing every time. It's much like you would do in a 3D app. And it's so much fun! 😁

For those that are into 3D it would be like doing only local color and an ambient occlusion pass. Then adding a directional light and a less intense bounce light opposite to the main light. Then a bloom filter as a bonus. Maybe I should try this on Blender and compare my hand painted results with a 3D render. I might learn something from that...

Description
Usually I don't share my quick studies, but maybe someone else can benefit from this too.

This is something I learnt from an art class I'm following on schoolism.com. Basically you paint something in neutral overcast light and then use adjustment layers to alter the lighting.

So I grabbed some items and spent an hour painting them in an uninteresting lighting. Then I dropped the intensity of the image (hue/saturation/lightness filter) with an adjustment layer and started painting the light by masking it out. I made the effect stronger by painting some warm tone in an addition layer, also covering the bounce light in shadows. Finally there's some warmth added at the edge of the strong light (bloom effect).

Doing the lights separately allows you to try out different lighting setups without repainting the whole thing every time. It's much like you would do in a 3D app. And it's so much fun! 😁

For those that are into 3D it would be like doing only local color and an ambient occlusion pass. Then adding a directional light and a less intense bounce light opposite to the main light. Then a bloom filter as a bonus. Maybe I should try this on Blender and compare my hand painted results with a 3D render. I might learn something from that...