This effect was generated in Filter Forge, a Photoshop plugin that allows you to create your own filters.
This filter changes the mood or feel of a photo.
Light, shadows and color are added and controled using Filter Forge's HDRI lighting environment.
Moving the environment ball and selecting new environments controls what light will fall on the photo.
Most photos will look best with the Height slider set to maximum.
The Rotate Shadows slider is used to rotate the scene in the in the FF environment ball. At position 135 the scene will be up-side up and at 225 the scene will be up-side down.
Most photos will look best with the Height slider set to maximum.
Non-square images can be used by first changing the canvas size to square then cropping after the filter has been applied.
Thanks to uberzev for the 'Any Angle Gradient' snippet.
atmosphere, mood, feel, shadows, lighting, stylize, ambiance, cast
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