creating Lighting behind the clouds

[Walter Soyka]

Advanced Lightning can do the trick, but the default settings are way cheesy. You’ll need to tweak this a bit.

You’ll also need to rotoscope it to fit into the clouds. Since the lightning just flashes, this should be no big deal.

Add realism by lighting the clouds with an exposure effect around the lightning, when the lightning strikes. You’ll want to mask this, too.

Walter Soyka
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[John Cuevas]

Check out the Weather Replacement tutorial, real good tips on creating realistic lighting.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

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—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[Dane Silzle]

Thanks everyone I have used all ways Masked layers, Aharon’s lighting technic
and shooting lightning horizontally behind a masked layers with opacity changes
and they all work great.

Thank you very much !!!

Regards,

Dane