Lighting Up Your World

I was bored last night and wanted to try something. CC welcome, thanks for looking!

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i like it, very crisp

Ditto, looks really good

The bulb looks flat, like you just filled it with white, it doesn't quite work for me.

Yes, if you put up the original, I can show you a better way that would make it look a little bit more real.

I just swapped a lit bulb for the unlit one so i didn't have the cord hanging down. I'd like to find a bulb without the frosted outside.

Oh, well there is a way to make an unlit bulb look lit through Photoshop.

thecackster wrote in post #11116353
I just swapped a lit bulb for the unlit one so i didn't have the cord hanging down. I'd like to find a bulb without the frosted outside.

Then it's probably your masking that's the problem; the edge looks too hard. You could try softening/feathering it a little.

Yeah that was what I was planning on doing. Either that or you could just brush a little bit of white at a very very low opacity (20% ish) around the bulb and then setting it to soft light.

Okay thanks guys! The crit is very helpful! I think i feathered it 2px when selecting.