create lighting effect in photoshop for model picture

final result

hallo again friend , todays is light effect again , I mean , in this tutorial we’ll made lighting effect in photoshop for model shoot . we will use a couple layer effect on PS.

Ok let start …

Step 1

Open photoshop program , and create new project . give it name modeling  , than set the size to 1024 x 768 px 

 

Next , set the foreground color to #3d3d3d    and the background color to # 191717

Step 2

 Open the model picture , than pick pen tools and create path around the girl with it .    

 

After make path around girl body , with pen tool right click on the path and select make selection , so the path will turning into area selection .

Now pick move tool , than click on selection area, hold and drag the girl into project  area , name it model

Next press ctrl + T and resize the image , using scale command.after that , create some layer between background and model , next use brush tool to create black shadow under the model.

 

Step 3

Well, now for the light effect . I will give the links to the images that we will use next but if you want to make this with different images, download the Colors in Motion pack and the Cosmic Lights PNG images pack .

After you download that stuf ,use few image ( look at picture ) paste it on a new layer below the girl’s layer but above the shadow layers, change it’s Blending Mode to Screen and if you see that is not visible enough duplicate the layer or increase the saturation to make the colors more visible.

 

Last ,give some text to project

here the final result again