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Being in the spotlight can change everything. Here we’ll go from stage to screen. 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.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0This method lets us add two spotlights to “double light” our subjects. 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 Second Spotlight method also lets us darken the background to emphasize faces.<\/span><\/p>\n Lightroom’s Radial Filter Tool<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n The Radial Filter Tool is designed to allow just one spotlight. To work around its design, we check a box in the LR Develop Module. This permits us to place, and control, a second light on an area we want to highlight. The Second Spotlight learning curve is easy, so lets see how to do it with Lightroom’s Radial Filter Tool: <\/span><\/p>\n 1. START:<\/b> Open one of your photographs in Lightroom (LR) and click on the 5th<\/sup> tool from top left, the RADIAL FILTER. It is shaped like a circle.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n 2. SPOTLIGHT #1: Next, <\/b>to change your LR Radial Filter into SPOTLIGHT #1, just lower the exposure slider. Try lowering it to about minus one and a half (-1.5 exposure) first. Now,\u00a0Click and drag the Radial Filter\u00a0<\/b> in your image window. You’ll see the image get lighter inside the Radial Filter and become darker outside of its area. Click the Done button.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n 3. CHECKBOX: <\/b>Now, find the “Feather” slider in the palette just below the LR tools palette . Below the Feather slider, find the check box that says INVERT or INVERT MASK. Click this<\/b>\u00a0check box<\/strong> to place a check mark inside the INVERT\/INVERT MASK box. Then, slide your Exposure slider to lighten by a value from +1 to +2.<\/span><\/p>\n 4. SPOTLIGHT #2<\/strong> FINISH: Click and drag a second Radial Filter Tool <\/b>circle, and you’ll see a second bright SPOTLIGHT #2 effect. Click the Done button again. Be sure you click done.\u00a0<\/b>The key to this effect is that by checking the little Invert Box, you keep SPOTLIGHT #1 active. 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. <\/span><\/p>\n ADVANCED LIGHTROOM USERS <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n For you advanced visionaries, remember to fine tune your lighting and texture with your Clarity, Vibrance and your other Develop module sliders. 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. In the same image, I did the opposite (subtracted -20 Clarity) for lighting on the elder woman’s face.<\/span><\/p>\n We’ve seen that this effect can highlight and enhance the lighting of faces in a portrait. If you want to learn the effect in more depth, try the Second Spotlight on a landscape image. For instance,\u00a0 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. I used the Second Spotlight technique on the photo to highlight each stone lantern, at frame left and middle, to make them stand out from the stone wall background.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0LINKS:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Mr Kelby’s website:\u00a0( https:\/\/ScottKelby.com )<\/span><\/p>\n Youtube Link to Kelby Double Spotlight: ( https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y_MTjh4qjZc )<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.apogeephoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Radial-Filter-Tool-Lightroom.jpg\")
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