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How to Make a Wonderful Lighting Effect for Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Hold CTRL button and click on the layer containing the ellipse on the top in the Layers panel to get the next selection.

How to Make a Wonderful Lighting Effect for Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Next click on the mask on the model’s layer and choose Select>Inverse (CTRL+SHIFT+I).

How to Make a Wonderful Lighting Effect for Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Choose a Soft Round brush of black color and paint in the mask to hide out the lowest part of the model’s photo.

How to Make a Wonderful Lighting Effect for Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS5

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How to Make a Wonderful Lighting Effect for Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Create a new layer and select the brush mentioned in the previous example to paint on the bottom part of the edge of the model’s contours. The brush’s color is #120102. Place the layer under the model’s one.

How to Make a Wonderful Lighting Effect for Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Set Fill to 45% for this layer.

How to Make a Wonderful Lighting Effect for Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) and click between layers in the Layers panel to create a clipping mask.

How to Make a Wonderful Lighting Effect for Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS5

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How to Make a Wonderful Lighting Effect for Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Click Create new fill or adjustment layer from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Hue/Saturation. Drag the slider to the left to decrease the Saturation of the color range as shown. Place the layer above all the layers.

How to Make a Wonderful Lighting Effect for Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS5

We’ve got the next result:

How to Make a Wonderful Lighting Effect for Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) and click between the model’s layer and the adjustment’s layer in the Layers panel to create a clipping mask.

How to Make a Wonderful Lighting Effect for Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS5

We’ve got the next result:

How to Make a Wonderful Lighting Effect for Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Insert the mask on the recently made layer by choosing Add layer mask on the bottom part of the Layers panel and choose the Hard Round brush of black color.

How to Make a Wonderful Lighting Effect for Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Paint in the mask using this brush to hide out the hair, the glasses, the bracelet on the arm and the front’s top part.

How to Make a Wonderful Lighting Effect for Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Create a new layer and choose the Soft Round brush to paint above the model with the color #F8CF92.

How to Make a Wonderful Lighting Effect for Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS5

We’ve got the next result:

How to Make a Wonderful Lighting Effect for Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) and click between layers in the Layers panel to create a clipping mask.

How to Make a Wonderful Lighting Effect for Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS5

We’ve got the next result:

How to Make a Wonderful Lighting Effect for Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Set the Blending mode for this layer to Soft Light.

How to Make a Wonderful Lighting Effect for Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Do again the same operation described above, applying the color #BE7641.

How to Make a Wonderful Lighting Effect for Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) and click between layers in the Layers panel to create a clipping mask.

How to Make a Wonderful Lighting Effect for Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS5

We’ve got the next result:

How to Make a Wonderful Lighting Effect for Posters in Adobe Photoshop CS5

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