Bonjour Mesdames et messieurs in this video? I'm going to show you a really
cool trick where you can turn the city lights on.
Check it out. This is the before and Magic.
This is the after I'm turning the city light on.
Let me show you from the whole photo. I'm turning the city lights on Place Vendome in Paris.
It's crazy. Let's get started.
Alright, bonjour, Mesdames et Messieurs. So in this video,
I'm going to show you a really cool trick that I use often.
When I want to turn the city lights
on when I took a photo it was quite the time that the city lights would turn on and they did not really do it.
So let me show you how to do it.
So I'm going to go here and it's virtual copy that I created here where there is nothing
and what's really cool in this technique is that you can with one click one slider.
As I showed you one slider, you can just turn off and on the intensity of the whole city.
Just like, if you were at the city hall and you were turning the lights on,
it's really cool. Okay. So before we get started,
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So, how do we do this? Well,
first little,
a couple of Tricks. When you zoom in, make sure you You have three options here fit, then this one is a hundred percent which is kind of cool.
And this one is like whatever you want. I usually put it at 300% or 200%,
whatever I want to do. In this case. I'm going to put a 200 percent
and I'm going to start at 100% And then you can move around using the spacebar.
The hands become a little mouse, you can move around.
Okay, so let's do this lamps here. I'm going to go here
and I'm going to create a new radial gradient.
Okay? All right. So let's go here.
I'm going to make a circle. Make sure you don't make. Circle too big.
It's going to be within the lamp and I'm going to turn it on and boom.
I turned on the lamp, I can even add a bit of yellow but then the trick to put it everywhere is you gotta..
Well first, let's rename this one. Let's name this one lamps.
Okay, and then I'm going to right-click duplicate radial gradient one,
which is this one. And I'm going to put it here
and I'm going to duplicate and I'm going to put it here.
Okay, and this Plaza has so many laps.
It took me about 20 minutes to do it. So I'm not going to bore you with that,
but I just want to show you a couple of tricks. You see these two lamps,
their stack, on each other. So I'm just doing one Circle,
maybe making it a bit smaller. It's very important that the circle.
Be small. Don't make it too big like this.
So you see now I want to zoom in more
so I can go at 200% and I'm using the spacebar to move around
and then I'm going to make this smaller voila and duplicate this, voila.
There are three stack on each other. No problem. And as I said,
it's took me a while to do this photo because there's so many lamps and beautiful lamps.
If you get a chance, this is called the place vendôme.
That's where the Ritz is in Paris.
It's actually the most luxury place in Europe and it's really cool.
So I'm going to duplicate this. And one little trick.
I want to show you. When you go really far and lamps become starts to become really small.
You can, I can make this bigger. I can rotate this,
and I can do all these lamps in one shot.
Just Make a small circle like this and you keep on doing that.
Once you've done all the lamps. You're not done.
No, no. No, sir. You're not done.
Once you've done this, then we need to make a new mask.
And this time, I'm going to make a new radial Circle.
And this is going to be for the lights that this lamps create.
So I'm going to make a big circle
and this time I'm going to go much less just
because lamp would actually cast a bit of light on the floor and this one.
So this one I'm going to name it light.
And then I can right click duplicate.
And then I can make this go.
So on this one. I'm going to make a lot less Circle.
It's mostly for, It's mostly.
Let me redo it again. I'm going to.
So make sure you always duplicate the first one because that way you can really decide you know,
how strong or not strong you want this to be and you do that for all the photo.
So at the end, what you're going to get is this result.
Okay, and then it's really cool. Because let me show you,
I go here. And now I just got two masks.
One is called lamps lampadaire, which is lamps,
and there's one is éclairage, which means light.
So, if I click on this one, I can just go here.
Make it, turn it off, and on, you know,
add some lights. If I want to some yellow and then or can go here,
and this is the, the radiation of the Lamp,
like the basically, the light coming out. So I can make it big or small.
And one thing I did is I made that photo a little darker.
The light really would stand out pretty cool trick.
Now, one more trick. I want to show you when you work with radial Circle.
You see see a lot of pins there. You have four options by default.
It's on auto, auto is really cool.
Because when you are in a photo, you can select any of the pins and move them around.
But if you go out of the photo, the pins disappear,
okay. Now you have another option,
which is here, always.
And in that case, Wherever I go, the pins are on which is really annoying.
I never use that option and then You have selected, selected means that you only have one pin,
which is the one that's being selected right now.
Also, very annoying. I never use it and then you have never, never is kind of cool.
It you can appreciate the photo without any pins,
but honestly, I think Auto, is the best of best world because here I am in the photo.
I'm out of the photo. I am in the photo, I'm out of the photo and I can appreciate,
and I can turn off the lamps, and turn off that turn on turn off,
turn on the lamps. Alright.
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I'll see you in another video. Mesdames et messieurs. Aurevoir.