This document discusses light painting and famous light painters such as Pablo Picasso. It then provides details on three light painting photos that were edited in Photoshop, including adjusting layers and colors to enhance the light effects and remove backgrounds.

1. LIGHT
PAINTING
BECKY DOYLE

2. FAMOUS LIGHT PAINTERS.
PABLO PICASSO

3. This is the original picture in which Liam is stood behind
spinning the Christmas lights round in a circle. The shutter
speed on the camera was set at number 8 and this is how
the effects were created. The problem with the picture is
that you can see everything in the back ground, so in
Photoshop I can edit the picture to blank out the
background to completely black. Below is the picture after
I have edited it on Photoshop. I made 3 layers with the
same picture and on each one I took the brightness right
down and the contrast all the way up. This made the
background go completely black. On the second layer, I
took the opacity down to 16% and moved it over slightly
so it wasn’t on line with the first layer.
On the third layer I changed the
opacity to 43% and moved it over a
bit more than the second, so it
created a staggered effect of the
image. I decided to select the
middle of the image and copy and
paste it 3 times, to make it look like
an ‘army’. On the new 3 layers I
decided to use the colour balance
adjustment to change the colours of
the lights because I didn’t' just
want them to pinks, reds and
purples. I positioned them next to
each other so I ended up with 4
silhouettes with the lights. It works
really well and makes the silhouette
of me look like an alien.

4. In the original picture we can see Jenny waving or
spinning the Christmas lights round. It created this wild
coloured tangled lighting. Again when this was being shot
the shutter speed was set to number 8. It captured
everything that went on in them 8 seconds. Like the
previous picture I create 3 layers of this picture and took
the brightness down on them all and the contrast up so
the background would go completely black so we can just
see the lights. On the first layer I left the opacity at 100%
so that could be my base for the other 2 pictures. On the
second layer I changed the hue of the image and it
created a bright red colour and I changed the opacity to
90%.
On the third layer I changed the
opacity 47% and changed the hue
to a lower number, and once this
was layered over the second, the
red and the light purple colour
covered each other. Once I did that
I brought the brightness down again
for the last time and this is how it
ended up a bright pink colour. It’s
very simple compared to the first
one I did. I think this could have
been more effective if I moved the
images slightly to the left or right to
create a slurry blurred effect. If I did
that then it could of looked like it
was moving.

5. The original picture for this is darker than the others
because we used a different type of light. For this Liam
and Carrie were throwing glow sticks to each other, and
the effect it created was that it looks like they are having a
dual. You would see this sort of light painting in films such
as Harry Potter, because it looks very magical and surreal.
Like the other two I created three layers of the original
picture and took the brightness right down and the
contrast up. This was to get a black background so the
light stood out more. On the second layer I change the
hue and colour balance so it ended up yellow.
I think green and yellow go together
well and this photo looks really
good. On the third layer I took the
brightness down again and change
the opacity to 50& and I moved it to
the right so created a blurred effect.
It looks fantasy like and I like the
way the glows ticks really stand out
in the picture, and then when the
sticks actually move I like the way
they are faded compared to where
the sticks are positioned.