How to Add Lightning with Photoshop and Optics by Boris FX

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In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use Optics to add lightning to a scene. We’ll cover a range of filters in Optics: S_Zap, Day for Night, Curves, S_LensFlare, S_NightSky, Film Stocks and S_Vignette. At the end of the tutorial, I also show you how to integrate Optics lightning into your Photoshop compositing workflow.

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