Content Provider oooPLAYER1ooo Posted November 17, 2013 Content Provider Share Posted November 17, 2013 hi guys i see lots of night mods coming and get a heap of pm messages from people requesting some help getting g.i effects made in Photoshop. so i decided to give people a hand on a method i like to use that's pretty simple and you get a lot of control of how the lighting looks in the finished product. included in this post is a Photoshop template file ready for you to put your own play field image in and by following a few simple steps can create some general illumination lighting. now this is only a quick introduction to get shadows and other reflections is extra but this is a good start and you will be happy with your results im sure. here is the photoshop source file required to begin: lighting tutorial.zip so here we go: Step 1 when you open the file make sure to have access to the layers section step 2 the area you will be using is color coded green and labeled in a folder named uncompleted example step 3 Insert your own playfield image into where i have placed my example or to try demo just use my example. step 4 you will see a folder named light source, duplicate this folder and use the move tool to place it in the position of another bulb. repeate this step until all bulbs have light on your playfield. step 6 now you have made all light sources you may be thinking " the table is still not right and too dark around the light sources". create a new layer under your lightsource folders above your playfield image and select the layer type to "overlay" step 7 now select the brush tool and make the width around 230px and set the brush hardness to 0% step 8 now open up the foreground color properties and change the color to the one in the following screen shot step 9 now paint on your new created layer, you will see it lighting up your playfield, you can get creative here and leave out areas to imitate shadows. step 10 if you are not happy with the amount of intensity the painted light has created just duplicate the painted layer and adjust its transparency in the layers properties panel hope you guys can follow this and it is useful, giving instructions isn't my strong point. if it does help people i could make more quick tips like this for other things if anybody would be interested This post has been promoted to an article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teppotee Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 THANKS! Extremely useful quick tutorial. Just gave it a try and will definitely be using this method in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider gtxjoe Posted April 18, 2014 Content Provider Share Posted April 18, 2014 Thanks for the tutorial Question - For the 4 step gi lights, how do you create the pf_a and pf_b images? What type of adjustment layer works best? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider freneticamnesic Posted April 18, 2014 Content Provider Share Posted April 18, 2014 Thanks for the tutorial Question - For the 4 step gi lights, how do you create the pf_a and pf_b images? What type of adjustment layer works best? I can't speak for the method he uses, but I adjust transparency of the layer, set at 33% and 75%, respectively Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faralos Posted April 21, 2014 Share Posted April 21, 2014 I also made a tutorial about two years ago concerning Gimp2 and in this one I have how to make play fields and plastics darker how to add lighting to pf's for that darker effect and how to redo back glasses for darker looks too http://www.speedyshare.com/Z2ygc/GimpTutorial.zip it is about a 16 meg zip file hope it helps someone... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider oooPLAYER1ooo Posted April 22, 2014 Author Content Provider Share Posted April 22, 2014 what i do is duplicate the overlay layer 4 times usually. then play with each layers transperancy to get the desired effect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider gtxjoe Posted April 22, 2014 Content Provider Share Posted April 22, 2014 Thanks all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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