Help with background lighting

[Vafann]

I´m really happy that I was able to wrap a stone wall kind of thing around a face and skin. I was able to get rid of the original background as well, but now I think I need some kind of light source coming from the darkness behind that at least looks kind of natural, and I have no idea how to do that.

I would be grateful for any suggestions

 

[dv8_fx]

If the woman is on a layer with no background, perhaps a very , faint glow?

 

[Vafann]

If the woman is on a layer with no background, perhaps a very , faint glow?

Thank you! A very faint glow where and how?:lol:

 

[iDad]

View attachment 4408that what I would do see psd layers

 

[dv8_fx]

There's a few ways....

Make a layer duplicate of the woman..... (Hide this layer so you can see what you're doing on the lower layer) ....

CTRL+click woman layer icon to select the image....

Fill with white... DESELECT...

Add blur MENU>FILTER>GAUSSIAN BLUR..... This seeting I leave to your preference ....

When done lower layer opacity .........

 

[Vafann]

View attachment 4408that what I would do see psd layers

That was nice, did you do that with the dodge tool?

 

[iDad]

no just a white paint brush and splashed the area and put the layer on top in luminosity mode then used a soft eraser brush to remove the overlay of white on her

 

[Vafann]

I tried, I´ll try again , but I don´t really understand. I made a duplicate layer, hid it, then I control clicked on the background layer. This made it look like no layer was selected and made it impossible to do anything after that. I´m sorry, I´m really new to this.

 

[iDad]

Have you opened the psd I posted? change the work space color if it is set to white, you will see the layer of color I used

 

[Vafann]

Have you opened the psd I posted? change the work space color if it is set to white, you will see the layer of color I used

When I opened the PSD, all I saw was the original picture, and a layer on top of that that looked empty.

 

[iDad]

there is white paint on the top layer change your work space to different view you will see it

 

[iDad]

you should see something like this
View attachment 4411

 

[Vafann]

you should see something like this
View attachment 4411

I´m sorry, it doesn´t look like that, I tried to take a screen print to show you what I see, but it didn´t work. Ugh.

 

[iDad]

close the layer with the girl (click the eye in layer palette window)

 

[iDad]

will this helpView attachment 4412

 

[Vafann]

will this helpView attachment 4412

I give up, It doesn´t look like that no matter what I do, all I see is a transparent layer with some very slight white smudges. I´ll try again. Thank you for your patience.

 

[iDad]

no way to show a screenshot huh?

 

[iDad]

try thisView attachment 4413View attachment 4414

 

[Vafann]

Ugh, I was able to make some kind of printscreen of your PSD, but now I´m having trouble posting it here, I´ve tried about a hundred times, I´ll try again sigh..

 

[Paul]

For what it's worth, i tried...