Ingredients Used Today: Channels and Texture

I recently learned how to take a picture and use it as a lighting effect. So I decided to try it out with a picture of Mike and I. It looks really weird but I think learning how to do this can be pretty useful in a design of some kind. You can do this with any picture using Photoshop and the Channels tab. If anyone has a picture they want turned into a lighting effect let me know. I can do it for you. :)

This one looks a little bit scarier because I used a purple background and made it black around the edges. I used a cupcake shaped paint brush in white and stamped it around. Looks like cupcake shaped clouds...Now that I think about I should make a graphic where the clouds in a photo are cupcakes!