Article · Mikko Lagerstedt
How to add a glow to photographs in Photoshop
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2018
About this lesson
A fine-art night photographer's method for adding atmospheric glow: duplicating the image as a smart object, applying a heavy Gaussian blur, boosting highlights with a clipped curves layer, then dialing back opacity.
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