You’ll see this adds an awesome translucent quality to the clouds in the areas surrounding the lightning. Next I select the adjustment layer’s mask, fill it with black by going to Edit…Fill…Black and then paint onto it with a soft white brush on a low flow setting. To create this effect, I clip an Exposure adjustment layer onto my sky layer and then raise the exposure. The lightning should be lighting up the surrounding clouds. I correct this by clipping a Levels adjustment layer to it, and moving the left slider almost all of the way to the right. It should have a slightly over-exposed feel to it. I’m also not happy with the intensity of the lighting. To fix this I go to Filter…Blur…Motion Blur. But if you look closely, there’s a slightly pixelated quality to it. Therefore I tone it down using the opacity slider. I don’t recommend using too much glow though, as subtle effects tend to look a little bit more realistic. I set the color to light blue and then tweak the sliders until I’m happy with it. First I add some glow by going to Layer…Layer Style…Outer Glow. Now let’s begin making this lightning look more realistic. Then, because my lightning starts out as black, I clip an Invert adjustment layer to it to change it to white. I hide these by selecting my lightning bolt with the Polygonal Lasso tool, and then pressing the mask button. It’s best to use a vector graphics file, but you can achieve more or less the same effect using free lightning brushes, which I’ll link to in the description.Īfter positioning my lighting, I notice there are a few extra areas of lightning that I don’t want. Our night-time scene starts with a rooftop layer, and a stormy sky layer, which I’ve used to replace the original sky using a mask.įirst let’s place our basic lightning by going to File…Place and selecting our lightning file. In this quick tutorial, I’ll show you how create realistic lightning in Photoshop.
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