I dodged the catchlight (where the light reflects in the eyes) a bit, as well as the eye itself.

The eyes are then the next step in my editing process. “I always prefer to accentuate what’s natural and avoid creating light where there naturally isn’t” Once that was complete, I moved to the ‘dodge and burn’ layer in the layer group, where I added highlights and contour to the model’s face-I always prefer to accentuate what’s natural and avoid creating light where there naturally isn’t. I also used a Black & White adjustment layer as a reference to clearly see imperfections on the skin. I used different layers to dodge and burn the hair, eyes etc. I used the Paint Brush Tool with a soft edged brush with low flow-white for Dodge and black for Burn. I then used the Dodge & Burn Macro in the Presets category, which consists of 50% grey fill layers. I then tidied up my layers and deleted ones I didn’t use, ready for the next steps. Once satisfied with the positioning I decreased the Opacity of each of the triangle layers until the desired effect was achieved. Next I applied a Mask layer to the triangle and used the eraser tool to shorten the ray and Duplicate to make additional rays.Įach one is carefully adjusted and then lined up the idea is to insinuate light streaming down on to the model’s face. I then changed the blend mode of the triangle to Overlay and added a Gaussian Blur to start perfecting the illusion. Using the Triangle Tool on the tools menu, I drew a long white triangle to resemble a ray of light falling onto the model’s profile (you’ll see in the video that I duplicated my initial triangle multiple times but then decided to duplicate the one I edited first-trial and error is key!). Here’s how I created rays of light across the model’s face using Affinity Photo: It has allowed me to be more ‘on the go’ with my work which I feel sets me apart from other photographers.

I use Affinity Photo for iPad as my main editing tool.

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