Paint Shop Pro 7 Lighting
Paint Shop Pro 7 is now capable
of many, many types of lighting. For this tutorial I'll be using the sunset
lights and a couple of the other image editing tools available in Paint Shop Pro
7.

Above is the original image
taken in Cabo San Lucas Mexico. This is an interesting rock formation and I
thought I could get a surreal night time image out of it with the use of Paint
Shop Pro 7's lighting effect.

It looked kind of plain without
any clouds so using Paint Shop Pro 7's Picture Tube tool and the Cloud preset I
added a layer of clouds.
Next, I added the Lights
effect, Sunset. You can access this effect from Effects>Illumination
Effects>Lights. This is a new effect added to Paint Shop Pro in version 7. As
you can see there are many options that are adjustable to get just the right
effect. I left the default color but adjusted the Direction(70) and
Intensity(30). I also adjusted the Cone size. The default is full. As you can
see in the screenshot below there are other lights in the image and you can
adjust those separately if you wish. I left them where they were. When the
Lights dialog first opens the sun was towards the top of my image so I moved it
down to where you see it now.

With all your options set,
click ok. The resulting image is below.

I supposed I could have stopped
with that but it looked a little yellow to me and I like a nice violet red
sunset. To get the color I wanted I opened the Color adjustments
menu...Color>Adjust>Red/Green/Blue.
You can see my settings in the
screenshot below. To remove most of the yellow I decreased the green and
increased the blue. When I did that I had quite a but too much red so I needed
to reduce it also.

Below is the resulting image
after clicking ok.

That's an ok image but now it
feels a little cold to me and not quite right so I decided to balance the color
a little.

After adding a little warmth to
my image I ended up with the image below.

Now I like that one. So it was
complete. But what about a sunrise image? From the Colors
menu...Color>Histogram>Stretch I stretched the colors a bit and ended up
with the image below.

Now I have three images from
one that are sort of surreal just by using the included tools available in Paint
Shop Pro 7.
