In this Adobe video Photoshop tutorial we will be talking about effect called dramatic lighting or how to add studio lighting to enhance dramaticity of the portrait.

This

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will be shown to you on portrait. Duplicate the selected photo. Then we click on the icon with the name – The new adjustments affect all layers below … We will continue with new adjustment layer – black and white. Right after that we will use the new adjustment layer – Levels where we set the parameters depending on the selected image. We proceed according to this

Photoshop tutorial

Now we’re transferring this layer into the smart object. Next we use Photoshop filter Blur – Gaussian blur with a value of about 5px. At the same time we can change blending mode to Overlay. This

Photoshop tutorial

Is quite simple and we definitely recommend it for beginners as well. Today’s lesson will show you a good way of increasing the drama by adding light into portrait using Photoshop. This effect is probably best suited for photo portraits but would be good to try other types of images, such as buildings or historic interiors.

Finally, we attach a picture that we have created by this Adobe video Photoshop tutorial – Dramatic lighting.