SETC 2019
Quick Digital Lighting Renderings - Will Lowry

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If you're playing along:

Tools to Explore

When laying down the general lighting composition

• Use a separate layer for general lighting composition
• Set your layer to multiply ​as a blending style
• Lay down a wash of your shadow tone with the paint bucket
• Paint areas of light with a brush with very low opacity and hardness

When creating visible light in the air or sources

• Use separate layers for each effect (and sometimes duplicate them)
• Set your layers to screen, overlay, or soft light (experiment!)
  
• You may want to reduce layer opacity
• Use the selection tool or polygonal lasso to only paint in certain areas
• Use Gaussian blur to help soften edges
• The gradient tool (set to color->transparency) allows light to "fade out"
• You can adjust colors to a layer with Hue/Saturation controls
  
• Photoshop allows for more extensive layer blending options like outer glow and inner glow.
  
• You may need to adjust your general lighting composition layer to let these effects really shine
  

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Relevant Links

Adobe Photoshop

GIMP

Autodesk Sketchbook

Wacom Intuos Tablet

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Finished Examples

​Abigail/1702

Jane the Plain​

​Spring Awakening

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