Character Portrait - The Photoshop: Professional Retouching and Compositing Tips, Tricks, and Techniques - page 346

Figure 6.25
Tip
Renaming each layer so that you know what part it plays in the retouching pro-
cess will save you time and frustration later should you need to make changes;
this is especially true in pictures that require many layers and hours of work.
Lighting the Cigar
Here's how we can easily make the cigar appear alight using layer styles.
1. Click the retouch layer at the bottom layer of the layer stack, zoom in, and use the
Lasso tool to draw a rough selection of the ash area of the cigar ( Figure 6.26 ) .
Figure 6.26
2. Copy this selection onto its own layer by pressing Command/Ctrl-J. Drag that lay-
er to the top of the layer stack and name it cigar .
3. To make the ash look alight, we are going to apply three layer styles. Click the fx
icon at the bottom of the layer stack, and choose Outer Glow from the menu. In the
Structure section, change the blend mode to Overlay and increase Noise to 75%.
Click the color swatch, choose black, and click OK.
4. Apply an Inner Glow layer style. In the Structure section, change the blend mode
to Overlay, click the color swatch, and choose black. Click OK. In the Elements
section, increase the Size to 25px.