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Soooooo, here it finally is: The Lighting Tutorial, Part 1 :D
Part 2 can be found here.

About the tutorial:
I have no idea how comprehensive this is - it sure was hard to write, harder than my previous tuts. Lighting is such a complex thing and much of what I do is by gut instinct. It was hard to get this gut-feeling-thing written out in a somewhat coherent fashion ^^;

Part 1 deals with the basics, like what should your manip look like before you start, which stock is the most suitable and which questions you should answer before you even start. It shows you how you can add the bigger shadows using gradients and how you can adjust an object's colour to better fit with its environment in a very quick-and-easy way.

Part 2 [link] covers overall lighting and colourizing before showing a different method of setting highlights and shadows than "just painting them in" thus giving you a starting point so you don't have to paint in everything from scratch. Also, it touches on how to get those "really glowy" highlights.


:bulletblue: In any case, I'd appreciate it if you'd let me see what you've created - I'm curious like that.
:bulletblue: Comments & Feedback always welcome :heart:

:bulletred: NO REDISTRIBUTION, NO TRANSLATIONS

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:icontizjezzme:
This is great .. if only I can wrap my head around it. Wish you were here, I'd have you show me :"> Thank you for this tutorial !!
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=kuschelirmel-stock Aug 24, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
you're most welcome! I'm glad it is helpful
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:iconpaintedspoon:
Thanks so much for the tips and your time to do this.
Learned some good points.
Barb
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:iconpaintedspoon:
Thanks so much some very good points.
Barb
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:iconicu109:
just found these and as I just got CS6, ( I use mostly PaintDotNet and have for the 2 years I've been dabbling) this is going to help me tremendously. I shall spend time with it cuz lighting, shadows, reflections, and dropshadows are indeed the part that make a piece actually look real. thank you, you put a lot of time and effort into this. the least I can do is study it and your other offerings. I do best learning this way. Videos, I hate. Go too fast, have distractions like too much talking, or no talking and can't follow, or stupid music I have to mute, and have to keep pausing. this is great!
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=kuschelirmel-stock Jul 21, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
:blowkiss: glad you find them useful!
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Mood: Joy ~maggamin Jul 8, 2012  Professional Photographer
Thank you for sharing this wonderful tutorial. I really needed help with controlling light in my images.
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:iconrogeriosampaio:
Thank's Olve Effect!
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:iconnolamom3507:
Thank you so much. I have been struggling with lighting and shadows. I only just recently discovered about not using black to make my shadows. I hadn't thought about gradients for shadowing, although I use them for light frequently. Duh!
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=kuschelirmel-stock Jun 7, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
:blowkiss: you're most welcome!
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