Lights on, Lights off

[hershy314]

Quick before and after. Tried my hand at some more realistic lights.

at this angle its kinda hard to get it just right. But at least it's almost kind of close.

 

[Paul]

Maybe adding a little hint of light beams would give it just a bigger push mate?

 

[Inkz]

You need a darker room or background for the lighting to have a full effect.

 

[hershy314]

Valid points, think I will try again with a different photo. Hard part will be getting the beams to look right. I know how they should look, but getting that down on ps will be a challenge.

 

[Inkz]

To do a beam of light, try...

Draw a triangle shape with the Polygonal Lasso coming from the head light, make it quite long. Then go to Select > Modify > Feather 30-40px Then fill with #a58c33 set to colour dodge lowering the opacity to suit. Add a cloud render overlay to it for a misty light.

But you need a dark background than what you used before.

I will knock up a vid tut if you want.

 

[hershy314]

Thanks, I was searching for away to do this but couldn't find anything. I'll give it a shot.

 

[Jessicayla]

The tip Inkz gave will be useful for the criticism I'm about to give - the light beams edge are too crisp. In real life, the edges of lights in the dark have a feathered look to them. Otherwise, great effort

 

[hershy314]

The tip Inkz gave will be useful for the criticism I'm about to give - the light beams edge are too crisp. In real life, the edges of lights in the dark have a feathered look to them. Otherwise, great effort

the first re-do i posted was a mistake, but if you look again at the second before / after photo the lights are feathered around the edge

 

[stephc84]

I agree, the light beams are too crisp.

 

[Jessicayla]

the first re-do i posted was a mistake, but if you look again at the second before / after photo the lights are feathered around the edge

Whoopsie! For some reason I immediately clicked on the second one. Looks a lot better with the feathered edge.

 

[hershy314]

I agree, the light beams are too crisp.

your looking at the wrong image

 

[dv8]

Second image looks a lot better, feathered has worked a treat.

 

[hershy314]

it has worked great, but I'm not really that happy with the way the beams are angled. The angle of the car kind makes it hard, at least for me it does.

 

[dv8]

I would agree completely I was going to mention it, but if you bring the angle upwards you lose the contact with the floor. Thinking about how headlights work on a car I dont think its the bottom of the beam but the top that needs to be pushed further upwards? possibly.

 

[hershy314]

possibly, I'll work on it after dinner....now to figure out what to cook

 

[Hockey]

Kinda looks like the lights are going down too far. Hmm, maybe that's just me.

 

[hershy314]

Kinda looks like the lights are going down too far. Hmm, maybe that's just me.

I agree that they are, but like I said I'm having a difficult time trying to get them to look right.

 

[hershy314]

wow keren gan

what does that mean?

 

[hershy314]

you people keep looking at the wrong pic.....how do i get rid of that...delete don't do nothing