Create A Dual Lighting Effect with GIMP

this is Nick with logos by Nick comm and in this tutorial I'll be demonstrating how you can create this dual lighting effect using and if you'd like to learn more about how works be sure to check out my series it's a collection of over sixty videos where I go over all of the tools and features in and I explain what they are and demonstrate how they work I'll have a link in the description of the video if you want to check that out so to get us started here as you can see I have this example photograph opened up the first thing we want to do is just duplicate this layer so that we can work with a little bit I'm just going to click this button down here that says create a duplicate of the layer and add to the image and I'm going to remove the saturation from this image slow go to colors saturation and bring that all the way down and then click OK so that we are left with a grayscale image like that so what I want to do now is add a new layer on top of this so I'm gonna click the button down here that says create a new layer and add it to the image click OK to leave the defaults as it is and I'm going to fill this in with a shade of pink so I'm gonna come up here and change my color selection to shade of pink maybe something like that I'm gonna go with ff5 BBA as the HTML or the hex code you can use whatever shade you'd like I personally think this shade worked out well for this sort of effect so I'll leave that as it is and click OK and now I want to go to edit fill with foreground color and that's gonna fill the layer in with that color of pink and now I want to set the blend mode to overlay so that we end up with something like that so now what I'm going to do is I'm gonna create a new layer based on what's visible on the screen here so I'm gonna right click this layer and go to new from visible and I'm gonna turn off the visibility of that layer for now I'm gonna come back down here to this pink layer and I'm going to fill this with blue now so let me change the foreground color to blue click OK and go to edit fill with foreground color and now I want to create a new layer based on what's visible here as well just like we did for the pink layer so I'm gonna right click this layer and go to new from visible and now I want to turn the visibility of the top layer back on or that pink layer rather and what I'm going to do now is I'm going to change the foreground color back to black click OK we're going to want black is the foreground and white is the background and I want to click on this top layer activate that and I'm going to add a layer mask so I'm going to click this button over here that says add a let and a mask that allows non-destructive editing of transparency click Add just leave the defaults as they are we want to use white full opacity click add and now I'm going to grab the gradient tool which is hidden underneath the bucket tool here so when I click and hold on that and gleb grab the gradient tool or you could just press G on the keyboard that'll grab it as well and what I'm going to do is I'm going to come down here to the gradient selector and I want to make sure we have foreground to background selected where it's going from black to light as you see here and once we have that selected I'm going to bring the cursor to the right of the subject over here and just click and drag and hold control or lock it onto the horizontal axis click and drag this to the right a little bit like that or to the left rather and that's looking pretty good we want blue on this side and pink on this side which is what we have here this looks good so what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna create another layer based on what we have visible here so I'm gonna right click this and go to new from visible and what I'm gonna do now is I'm just gonna I'm just gonna edit the curves a bit to bring this all together to put the finishing touch on this well go to colors curves and I want to take this bottom node down here and click and drag this to the right a little bit and if you notice what it's doing there is its deepening the shadows I'll maybe even bring it up a little bit as well just to lighten it up a bit something like that that looks pretty good and now I'm gonna come over to the red channel I'm gonna add a little bit of red in here by taking this top node and sliding this to the left a little bit make sure you're watching what's happening on your canvas as you do this you don't want to get too carried away and end up with something like that I'll just bring this over to the left just a little bit and then I'll come over to the blue channel and do the same thing take this node and bring this over to the left a little bit and maybe I'll add a little blue in here down here as well to the overall image like that and if you toggle the preview off and on you can see the diff they're pretty big difference there this looks like it more of like a unified image than this does so I'll go ahead and click OK to finalize that and I think that should do it for this tutorial that is how you can go about creating this dual lighting effect with an image using if you have any questions leave a comment below and as always thanks for watching [Music]

Channel: Logos By Nick

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Keywords: gimp tutorial, gimp dual lighting, dual lighting effect, logos by nick, logosbynick, nick saporito

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Length: 5min 10sec (310 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 23 2020