Photoshop Effects: Focus With Light
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Step 8: Lower The Layer Opacity If Needed
If you find that the lighting effect is too intense, simply lower the opacity of "Layer 1". You'll find the Opacity option at the top of the Layers palette. Lowering the opacity of a layer allows the layer(s) below it to show through. I'm going to lower my opacity down to around 80% just to soften the effect a little:
Reduce the intensity of the lighting effect by lowering the opacity of the layer.
And with that, we're done! Here's my original image once again for comparison:
The original image once again.
And here, after fine-tuning the intensity of the lighting effect by adjusting the layer's opacity, is my final result:
Photoshop Effects: The final "focus with light" effect.
And there we have it!
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