From the course: Motion Control 3D: Bringing Your Photos to Life in Three Dimensions Using Photoshop and After Effects

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Using lighting effects

Using lighting effects

From the course: Motion Control 3D: Bringing Your Photos to Life in Three Dimensions Using Photoshop and After Effects

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Using lighting effects

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- Now, besides adding lights that affect the scene, you may want to add a light that's creative: beams of light coming through the trees, or perhaps a light bulb that glows. There are many ways to do this, including some pretty cool third-party filters, but I want to show you one that's built-in and works well. Let's work with the soldiers marching in the streets here, and I'm going to add some light coming through the trees. Now, I've already got an adjustment layer here and you can turn it on. Let's take the camera and disable it for just a moment to look at the scene itself. There we go. And I'm going to turn off the other adjustment layer that was the blur effect. So this just has the soldiers moving through the scenes. That's cool. What I want to do now is create a bit of a light effect. So if I open up that adjustment layer, you'll see that I've got the blur. And on the other ones here, that's the blur effect.…

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