For instance, these stone lanterns in Japan, at Nikko’s Tosho-gu Shrine were next to a moss covered wall, and because of the winter’s day cloud cover, the contrast in the image was low.
If you want to learn the effect in more depth, try the Second Spotlight on a landscape image. We’ve seen that this effect can highlight and enhance the lighting of faces in a portrait. In the same image, I did the opposite (subtracted -20 Clarity) for lighting on the elder woman’s face. For instance, for post-processing of the image below, I moved the clarity slider to the right (added +20 Clarity) for the lighting on the face of a younger woman. You can tweak each Spotlight on its own by tapping or clicking on the center dot of each of the Radial Filters you’ve added.įor you advanced visionaries, remember to fine tune your lighting and texture with your Clarity, Vibrance and your other Develop module sliders. Be sure you click done. The key to this effect is that by checking the little Invert Box, you keep SPOTLIGHT #1 active. SPOTLIGHT #2 FINISH: Click and drag a second Radial Filter Tool circle, and you’ll see a second bright SPOTLIGHT #2 effect. Then, slide your Exposure slider to lighten by a value from +1 to +2.Ĥ. Click this check box to place a check mark inside the INVERT/INVERT MASK box. Below the Feather slider, find the check box that says INVERT or INVERT MASK. CHECKBOX: Now, find the “Feather” slider in the palette just below the LR tools palette. You’ll see the image get lighter inside the Radial Filter and become darker outside of its area. Now, Click and drag the Radial Filter in your image window. Try lowering it to about minus one and a half (-1.5 exposure) first. SPOTLIGHT #1: Next, to change your LR Radial Filter into SPOTLIGHT #1, just lower the exposure slider.
START: Open one of your photographs in Lightroom (LR) and click on the 5 th tool from top left, the RADIAL FILTER. The Second Spotlight learning curve is easy, so lets see how to do it with Lightroom’s Radial Filter Tool:ġ. This permits us to place, and control, a second light on an area we want to highlight. To work around its design, we check a box in the LR Develop Module. The Radial Filter Tool is designed to allow just one spotlight. This Second Spotlight method also lets us darken the background to emphasize faces. In the photos above, the top image is the original, and in the bottom picture I spotlighted two faces: the foreground veteran and the gentleman at frame right. This method lets us add two spotlights to “double light” our subjects. For photographer’s who work in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, we can illuminate our images with a Second Spotlight, creating it with a fun lighting idea from Photoshop Guy Scott Kelby. Being in the spotlight can change everything.
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