Processing of pictures and photos. Light Effects in Photoshop

To make a picture or other image become more interesting and unique in its own way, often use Photoshop. The tools available in this program allow you to perform any actions on the photos, from the most simple, related to the correction of images, to those that lead to truly stunning effects.

Almost all photographers process photos in Photoshop to remove certain defects, but this is not enough to make the result vivid and unusual. In this case, you can use additional effects in Photoshop. In most cases, various tools make it possible to draw a picture, collage, picture, etc. from an ordinary photograph, which is very important in any level of polygraphy.

Itself Photoshop and its tools at first glance seem complicated, the beginner here can be very easily confused. Sometimes it even seems that it is impossible to learn how to work in this program. But in fact, if you have the patience and how to try, most of the effects used by professionals will not be so difficult to apply.

To pick up really beautiful effects in Photoshop you can only experimentally (in fact it is very difficult to predict in advance how the picture will look with this or that effect). But with experience, as a rule, the user is already beginning to see in advance which tools in Photoshop are best used for this or that composition.

In most cases, light effects in Photoshop, such as a background using gradient staining, darkening or brightening certain areas of the image, changing the saturation of one or more color tones, etc., are used to slightly change the image. In the case when you need to make a completely different picture from the photo Picture, sometimes apply texture or volume effects. The latter are quite complex in application, but in some cases the result is worth the effort.

Very interesting effects in Photoshop are achieved by the most simple tools. For example, slightly highlighting the background in one place of the picture and darkening in another part, it's easy to focus on details. In the case of a combination of color and light effects around the person in the photo, you can get a color aura. And if it is a little more "diluted" with colored spheres, you will get the effect of flight or magical radiance from within. Thus, you can get a fundamentally new vision of the same image, using the simplest effects in Photoshop.

It happens that different effects are used for other purposes. For example, when you want to give volume or see how the same object will look in different textural solutions. By highlighting the individual elements of the composition (which can also be done with tools in Photoshop), the volume of flat objects is often added. Using a gradient with light effects allows you to add "magic" to children's drawings, photographs, pictures.

In general, with the help of properly selected Photoshop tools, you can both correct the image a little and change it in principle. Using the selected effects in Photoshop or individual instruments, you need to understand that the final result will depend not only on the correctness of the choice, but also on the experience, and also the patience and diligence with which the photo will be processed. And they will need a lot, because the processing of a single image can take several hours of painstaking work.