Lighting Effects - The Photoshop: Professional Retouching and Compositing Tips, Tricks, and Techniques - page 163

Figure 3.1
2. With your foreground color set to white, choose a soft-edged brush and size it to
about 250px. (Make sure there are no settings or effects applied to the brush.)
3. With the light layer active, click once in the center of the image. Zoom out and
then choose Edit > Free Transform. Hold down the Option/Alt and Shift keys and
then click and drag any of the corner transform handles, and resize the white soft-
edged circle much, much larger so that it goes beyond the bounds of the image
borders. (Note: Holding down both the Option/Alt and Shift keys when resizing
the light does so in the same proportions.) Then press Return/Enter ( Figure 3.2 ).