Let me show you how to add a colorful dual lighting effect
to a portrait in Photoshop. This tutorial is for beginners, but I will use advanced techniques
that I'm sure you'll love. I'll go slow and explain everything in
small, digestible chunks so that you understand the process. This tutorial is part of my
Hands-on tutorial series in Photoshop. I created ten tutorials
that appear inside of Photoshop 2021. That's Photoshop version 22.5 and newer. This means that you can open the assets
for this tutorial directly from Photoshop and follow along with Coach Marks
showing you each step of the process. To open this tutorial in Photoshop,
go into the Discover panel. You can bring it up by
clicking on the Discover icon or by pressing CTRL F on Windows,
that's Command F on the Mac. From the Discover panel, click on Hands on Tutorials, then scroll down until you find this tutorial. Or type
"add a color dual lighting effect" into the search bar. When you find it, click on the tutorial and click on the
blue Start Tutorial button. To open the files in your Photoshop. You can then follow along with the Guided
onscreen overlays or this video. No worries if you don't have the latest version of Photoshop, you can follow along with
older versions as well. You can download the tutorial
files from my website. The link is in the description. In this tutorial,
you will learn how to use Gradient Maps, Blending Modes, and Layer Masks to create the illusion of two lights of different colors
hitting the main subject. This technique works best with images with defined shadows and highlights. Like the image that you see here. Start by selecting your main subject. You can easily do so by going into
the Select menu and choosing Subject. This command will use artificial intelligence
known as Adobe Sensei, to automatically detect the main subject in a photo and create a selection around it. With the selection active,
go into the Layers panel and click on the new Group icon
to create a new Layer group. This Layer group will contain all the layers that will create the dual lighting effect. Next, click on the Add Layer Mask icon to create a Layer mask based
on the active selection. Applying the Layer Mask to a group makes it possible to control multiple
layers with just one Layer Mask. Go back into the new Adjustment Layer icon and choose Black and White
to desaturate the image. Before you move on to the next step, click on the Layer thumbnail, then set the
default foreground and background colors. You can do so by tapping on the D key on the keyboard or by clicking on this small two square icon. The default colors are a black
foreground and a white background. Next, go back to the new Adjustment Layer
icon and Select Gradient Map. The foreground and background colors that you set earlier will be
used for this Gradient map. Click on the Gradient Preview to open
the Gradient editor and Double-Click on this
white color Swatch below the Gradient to open the Color Picker. And set the color to a light blue. Press OK to close the Color Picker and press OK one more time
to close the Gradiet Editor. A Gradient map assigns color
to correspond in brightness values. Colors on the left of the Gradient are
mapped to the darker tones and the colors on the right are mapped
to the highlights, which is why the highlights on his skin tones
look blue and the shadows are black. To make this lighting effect more realistic, open the blending mode
dropdown and Select Hard light. This effect is too strong. You can reduce the intensity
by decreasing the opacity. You can set it to about 90% in this case. For this effect, we're going to make the light
on the right side red, so you will need to edit the
Gradient Map Layer mask to hide the blue light
from those areas. To do so, select the Brush
Tool from the Toolbar. Then click on this down-pointing arrow to open the Brush Presets and set
the Brush Size to about 150 and make sure that the Hardness is set to zero,
so that you have a soft brush. Black should still be your foreground color. And the Gradient Map
Layer Mask should be selected. You can see the focus, the white outline,
around the Layer Mask thumbnail. Start by painting on the right side wherever you think the red light
will hit his face and body. I'm going quickly here, but take your time
in your projects to get better results. Next, duplicate this Gradient Map. There's two ways of doing so. You can press CTRL J on Windows
that's Command J on the Mac. Or you can go into the Layer menu
and choose New Layer Via Copy. This is an exact duplicate of the original Gradient Map, but make sure that it only affects the areas
you hid in the previous step. To easily do so
Invert the Layer Mask by pressing CTRL I on Windows,
Command I on the Mac or you can go into the Image menu, Adjustments and Invert
either method will work. Now you need to change the color
on the right side to red. From the Properties, panel click on the Gradient
to bring up the Gradient Editor. Then Double-Click on the blue Swatch to bring up the color picker
and change the color to red. Then press OK, and press OK one more
time to close the Gradient Editor. If you enjoy this technique,
hit that like button now! And let me know in the comments what you thought about this
In-app Photoshop tutorial. Also, remember to go into Photoshop and check out all my other In-app
tutorials in the Discover panel. You'll see my name, Jesus Ramirez, on all my tutorials inside of Photoshop. And look below in the description for a link to a playlist with all my videos
about the In-app tutorials. Also, make sure that you check out my Photoshop in App tutorial
on changing day into night. You can watch it here. Thank you so much for watching. I'll talk to you again
in the next tutorial.
