Creating Wall Light
Tutorial in Basics, Effects, Goodies
Original tutorial in which you will learn to create a wall light. We will use a texture to create the wall and another image for the light. We will also use ((Elliptical Marquee Tool)), ((Rectangle Tool)), ((Color Balance)) to enlighten the light, ((Bevel and Emboss)), ((Gaussean Blur)), and so on.
First, download this TEXTURE.
Open the texture in Photoshop.
Create a ((New Layer)).
Select ((Elliptical Marquee Tool)) and draw a circle as shown in the following image¡.
Fill it in with color #1e2416.
With the selection still active go to ((Select))-((Modify))-((Contract)): 10px.
Standing in the circle’s layer, press delete.
Don’t deselect.
Go to menu ((Edit))-((Stroke)). The color you have to use use is #262c1d.
Now you must apply a little bit of shine, since the circle looks pretty dark. Go to menu ((Image))-((Adjustments))-((Brightness/Contrast)).
Duplicate the background layer (Ctrl + J), since you will work in it and you need a copy in case something goes wrong.
Standing in the duplicated background’s copy, paint with ((Burn Tool)), ((Shadows)), using a soft brush, in the interior an outside edges. Take a look at the result.
Double click the circle layer to apply ((Layer Styles)).
((Bevel and Emboss)).
((Texture)).
Accept the changes to get this result.
Now you need to download the light image by clicking HERE.
Open the image and copy it to the document so that you place it this way:
You can apply ((Dodge Tool)) to give more brightness.
You will turn on the light. In order to do so, go to ((Image))-((Adjustments))-((Color Balance)).
Shadows: 43, 0, -77.
Midtones: 79, 0, -100.
Highlights: 0, 0, -84.
Accept the changes.
Double click the layer to open the ((Layer Styles)) window and apply ((Outer Glow)).
Accept the changes.
Let’s make it a little bit blurry. ((Filter))-((Blur))-((Gaussean Blur)).
Create a ((New Layer)).
Select ((Rectangle Tool)) and draw 2 vertical lines (any color).
Press Ctrl + E to unify them in an independent layer.
Duplicate the layer to complete the total background’s width.
Select the layers again and press Ctrl + E to unify them.
With ((Elliptical Marquee Tool)), trace a circle as the one that appears below.
Then invert the selection. ((Select))-((Inverse)). Press delete.
Duplicate the background layer (Ctrl + J) and bring it to the front.
Ctrl + Click the layer to activate the selection.
Now ((Select))-((Inverse)) and press delete.
Finally apply ((Dodge Tool)) to give some brightness to the light bars.
This is the final result.
