Simple Way to Create Light Beams - Affinity Photo iPad Tutorial

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In this video i'll be showing you how to add realistic light beams So I'm using this picture for the example and I'll leave the link for it in the description. So the first thing I need to do is make a selection of the highlights. So i'm going to the ‘selections persona’, then ‘commands’ then ‘select tonal range’ and ‘select highlights’. So that's now made a selection but I want to get that selection on a separate layer. So I'm going back to the ‘photo persona’ then ‘commands’ and ‘duplicate selection’. If i go to the ‘layers studio’ you can see that the highlights have been added onto a separate layer. So I can hold my finger on the screen and let go and press ‘deselect’. I'm making sure that the highlights layer is highlighted and I'm going to add a ‘zoom blur’ so I'm going to the ‘filters studio’ then ‘blurs’ and i'm scrolling down to ‘zoom blur’. And first you need to figure out where the source of light is coming from, so with this picture, it looks like the light is coming from here, so i'm just going to tap in that area. And then I need to adjust the radius, and I'm bringing it up quite high. Then I can click apply. And now to bring out the light beams, I'm going to duplicate that layer a few times. So I'm going to the ‘move tool’ and I'm holding my finger on the screen for a second and letting go so the options come up and I'm clicking ‘duplicate’. Next I'm highlighting those layers by swiping my finger across and im grouping them together by clicking this. And then i'm ‘rasterising’ that group so they're all on the one layer. Next I'm changing the blend mode by clicking these three dots and clicking here. And i think ‘screen’ and ‘add’ work well, but for this i'm changing it to ‘screen’. Right now the light beams are looking really blown out and bright, so to fix it i can click on this box and bring this node down a bit. Now I want to add a blur to the ends of the light beams because they wouldn't look that sharp in real life. So i'm going back to the ‘filters studio’ and turning on ‘add live filter’ and im clicking on ‘gaussian blur’. And I'm bringing the radius up to around 10 pixels. But this has now blurred all of the light beams which I don't want. So I'm clicking the ‘plus’ and I'm adding an ‘empty mask layer’ and if it appears up here, you just need to drag it down onto the gaussian blur layer, until you see this blue line come up. Then using the ‘pai ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqCOczJjJqM