How To Create Light Wraps In Photoshop


This tutorial will show you how to create Light Wraps in Photoshop.

Light Wraps (or Light spills) is a technique that video compositors use that helps them create better blends between the background and foreground.

Usually, you would use a program like Adobe After Effects to create a Light Wrap for video footage. Still, in this tutorial, we’ll use Photoshop to apply this technique to photographs.

You can think of a Light Wrap as a way to simulate the ambient light in a scene that would cast onto the subject by the background.

This is a very subtle effect, you may not even notice it, but that’s the whole point. All those little details make the most significant difference in the end.

In my second example, I’ll show you how to apply a light wrap to a scene where the subject is indoors and in a darker area.

I’ll also show you how to add ambient color to the subject to blend better into the scene.

Remember that this tutorial shows you a technique that could be created and applied in many different ways and that you may find different blending modes or adjustments that work better in your scene.

You need to learn why this effect can help your images rather than the specific values I use.

Also, remember that this tutorial is all about Light Wraps, and we’ll disregard other issues that these composites may have.

But I think these examples help illustrate the benefit of Light Wraps.

Final Image

Drag The Slider To See Before & After

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Skip Michael

Thank you Mr. Ramariz.I always enjoy your Tutorials. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Michael Williamson

This is brilliant. I’ve seen other tutorials on this but, they either didn’t work very well or where too complex and time consuming. Thank you very much.

Cuahautemoc Giancaterino

Thank you so for this tut.
Just a question.
Would you make please
a tutorial to teach us how to make a dragging slider to see the before and the after of an image?

Bruce Tracy

Excellent tutorials. Very clear and easy to follow. Thank you for covering so many topics that we were unable to get to in college.