Lighting Effects - The Photoshop: Professional Retouching and Compositing Tips, Tricks, and Techniques - page 189

8. With a large, soft-edged brush and a foreground color of black, paint on the layer
mask to hide the effect in the areas you don't want it; in this case, the upper-left
and -right corners, and the lower part of the picture ( Figure 3.29 ) .
Figure 3.29
Figure 3.30 Final composite image with light beams coming from the sun behind the
clouds.
Horizon Light
This technique is great for adding bright light on the horizon to create depth and distance.
I use this technique mainly when I'm working on composite images in which the model
being added to the scene has rim lighting on either side of their body. Adding a bright light