Help Lighting Textures

[Steve K]

I'm trying to figure out how to use PSP8 to achieve the same lighting
affects as is possible in PS.

In PS you can create an Alpha Channel, fill it with a texture, then use
Lighting Effects to light the primary level(s) "through" this texture
channel - allowing you to create light and dark areas on the primary layer
without permanently altering it (so you can easily modify the lighting
effects later).

Does anyone know of a PSP8 technique that gets you to the same place?

thanks,
steve

[Fred Hiltz]

Yes. If I read you correctly, this "paint with light" effect is easy
to achieve. Add an empty raster layer, set its blend mode to Soft
Light, and paint on it with the tool of your choice, preferably with
low hardness and low opacity. Paint white to lighten, black to
darken, intermediate greys for intermediate effect. Middle grey
(128, 128, 128) gives zero effect.

Of course you can "turn up the lights" of the whole layer by
changing its opacity in the Layer palette.

I am not sure how a texture comes into it with PS, but it's easy to
apply a texture, a pattern, or both to the brush.
--
Fred Hiltz, fhiltz at yahoo dot com

[Steve K]

Thanks, Fred. I'll give that a try. I tried using another layer but I didn't
play with the blend modes much.

thanks again.
steve

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[fugitive]

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 07:46:00 -0800, "Steve K" <sekr...@adelphia.net>
wrote:

>Thanks, Fred. I'll give that a try. I tried using another layer but I didn't
>play with the blend modes much.
>
>thanks again.
>steve

Those layer blend modes are magic. Take a pic, dupe it, and play with
the modes on the upper layer.

[Kiri]

Combining what both you and Fred said, you could put your texture on a
layer, desaturate to greyscale
and then use a soft light (or another) layer mode ?

Kiri

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[Steve K]

Yep, that's what I tried and it worked just as I needed.

Thanks everyone.

steve

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