🛎️ Challenge: Changing Lighting Direction in Photoshop (traditional)

I wanted to test myself in trying to quickly change lighting direction make it a cinematic photograph but still keeping it close to the original. It took roughly 20mins to get to the first edit, then another 10 to sort of fix up the rest, its not perfect by any means but that was the goal.

Started trying to flatten the lighting in Camera Raw

Drew shadows and brushed it out using Levels

Used the OG image to add highlights back in the opposite direction to the shadows

Touched everything else up

I'll show another method I use tomorrow.

What's the best way to do this in your opinion? Share your lighting direction edits. 💬

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