Lighting Effects - The Photoshop: Professional Retouching and Compositing Tips, Tricks, and Techniques - page 200

been used to add the yellow/orange reflected light on his lower body from the explosion.
To add the light flare effect coming from the center of his hands, a reflective gradient was
used just as in the technique for adding a Horizon Light earlier in this chapter.
Figure 3.44
Shadows
It's the combination of highlights and shadows that makes flat and uninteresting photos into
moody and atmospheric ones. In this technique, we'll take away light and create shadows.
Figure 3.45 is not the most exciting image, but it's perfect for our purposes. We're going
to imagine that sunlight is coming from the horizon, meaning that the wall and grass in the
foreground would be in shadow.