 Today I've got a really awesome tip for you. I'm gonna show you how to make light rays Inside of light room. Basically, we're gonna go from this To this and it's really easy to do. You just got to know how Now all the tip is to show you how to make these light rays It's really not about the light rays at all What I want you to take away from today's video is actually how we're making the light rays the technique that we're Using to make the light rays because if you know and understand this technique You can actually use and apply this trick to a lot of different things when editing a photograph So don't get hung up on the fact that this is light rays tip or technique It's not about that, but it just so happens that it works perfectly for light rays as well So a couple of things that you need to know before we jump into making the light rays The main trick to making the light rays. There are a couple of little things that you should know So let's jump into those little things show you exactly what it is I'm talking about and then I'll show you how to make these rays So number one, we're gonna be using the adjustment brush today If you don't know where your adjustment brush is It's just above the basics panel if you click on the adjustment brush It'll activate it any adjustments because you might have panels that are open I don't right now all of my panels are closed But if you have other panels like basics or tone curve or any of that stuff open It's important to know that anything below the word basic has nothing at all to do with the adjustment brush And in fact, I recommend that you go to all of these panels here basic tone curve HSL Whatever and you actually close all of those so that you're not confused. That's the first thing So we're gonna open up the adjustment brush now the next thing we're gonna need to do is control our brush We're gonna need to be able to have a very tiny little brush and a little bit larger brush And in order to make this less confusing where you have to keep going back and changing the settings Every single time There's a little keyboard shortcut that you should probably know that will allow you to switch between one brush and Another brush and it's the forward slash key every time I hit the forward slash key I can switch between a brush So if you look down below at the bottom of the adjustment brush panel, you'll see some brush settings here You'll see a be an erase And every time I hit the forward slash button, you'll see the a be light up Switch so right now it's on a if I hit forward slash again It's on be a be a be and I could just keep going back and forth So the first thing we need to do is set up our a brush. So I'm gonna choose the a brush, okay Then what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna make the size of this brush Really really tiny you can do that by moving the size Slider back and forth or you can use the bracket keys if you're more comfortable with that But basically I'm gonna make the size of this like a pin drop really really small like point one I'm also gonna leave the feathering at 100 flow at 100 density at 100 Auto mask you can turn auto mask off So now that the a brush is set we're gonna hit our forward slash or go to our be brush And then what we're gonna do is we're gonna change the size of this We're gonna change this to maybe about Let's call it 16 and a half points or somewhere around there 16.8 is fine on the size and again We're gonna leave feathering at 100 flow at 100 density at 100 and auto mask We're just gonna leave that turned off So I've set up my a brush and my be brush and again if I go between my forward slash I can see here's a b a b and you can see how the brush Goes from teeny tiny weenie all the way up to a little bit larger brush Now that we've got that squared away that we can easily switch between a small brush and a big brush Here's the next tip is how we can get an even transition from the small brush to the big brush By holding down our shift key. This is pretty awesome Let me show you exactly how this works. I'm gonna go over to exposure and I'm gonna pull the exposure way up Okay, it really doesn't matter. I'm gonna pull it all the way up to four. Okay, so I've maxed out my exposure brightness I'm gonna start with the a brush. So make sure that your a is highlighted and I'm just going to Click by this tree one time and as soon as I do it's gonna drop a little pin right there Now what I want to do is go Switch my brush to the b brush, which is the larger brush And I'm gonna go to the opposite side of the photo and before I click anything. I'm gonna hold my shift key down This is the trick. You're gonna hold shift and then you're gonna click Over here and watch the transition You'll notice how it goes from this gradual Tiny little beam of light up to this thicker beam of light and because we have the feathering at a hundred It's a nice soft beam of light. I'm gonna do that one more time. I'm gonna hit the forward slash key That's gonna make my brush go to brush a the little tiny brush. I'm gonna click up here Where my tree is I'm gonna hit the forward slash key one more time. That's gonna bring up my large brush I'm gonna go to the opposite side of the picture Hold my shift key and click and as soon as I do that boom just like that I get this another really cool crazy ray of light now if you missed our previous video We talked about how you could hover over the pin Hold your alter option key down and actually lower the opacity of an adjustment We talked about that in the previous video if you missed that We'll leave a link to that video here and the in the cards up above But there's another way that you can do the opacity as well that we didn't talk about yesterday Basically, if we go over here to next to the word effect There's a little tiny arrow Over here if I click on that arrow that drop-down arrow It's actually gonna change the effect Section to what's called an amount and if I lower the amount I can actually lower Basically the opacity of that adjustment. I can control how strong that adjustment is so that's the third thing Now that we know what these three things are let's put that into practical application To make these light beams So I'm gonna go over here right click on that pin and delete it basically because I want to start all over Okay, my brush settings are still set up My A and B brushes are still set the way they were before so I'm gonna start with the a brush the little tiny one Now in this photograph in this example I had already made a light burst by lowering my aperture to f22 and That created this really cool burst of light coming through the trees But I want to accentuate that burst throughout the entire picture so I'm gonna start with the little tiny brush and I'm gonna click Somewhere inside of this sunspot and I want to follow the beams that are already here So I'm gonna just click somewhere here Hit my forward slash button so that I get the bigger brush and go just follow this beam of light down towards the bottom where I think it would fall hold shift and Click and boom then I get that light beam and I'm just gonna repeat this So forward slash brings up my small brush. I'm gonna go back into where the Sun is click Then hit forward slash again to bring up the large brush hold shift and boom and I'm just gonna keep doing this until I get all the rays So you're just going you're just going back and forth Back and forth back and forth holding shift hitting your forward slash key following these beams that are already here This is already looking pretty awesome All right now that we've made all the rays probably a little overkill But I just wanted you to see what this does again. I'm gonna go up to that little arrow next to the effects tab I'm gonna close this down So I get a mount and I'm gonna lower the amount of these beams because I don't want them to be so strong where they're They're really kind of unbelievable. Just just a little bit So we can control that opacity that looks pretty good. I mean you can decide as the artist You know, do you want some an effect? That's a little bit more aggressive or not aggressive? You know, if you're if we're talking about light beams here you can decide whether or not those beams go in front of the trees or behind some of the trees and You know, you can always go to the eraser for example If I didn't want the beams going in front of this big tree right here I could just go over to a race and I could knock those out the beams are still going behind the tree They're just not going in front of the tree. I could make my brush smaller and decide You know, I don't want the beams going and in front of this tree either that looks a little weird But now the beams do go, you know behind the tree. So that's up to you That's your artistic decision. But again, this tip is not necessarily all about the beams You can use this trick for a plethora of things in Particular it works extremely well on light beams. So go ahead give it a try Hopefully you found this tip awesome. 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