Download a Free Adobe Photoshop Lighting Action

Use this Photoshop action to easily and quickly edit your photos

Lighting is a very important factor in the work of Carles Marsal (@carlesmarsal). The images he creates are made up of bits and pieces of other imagery, therefore taking into account light and the direction of shadows is vital to the final results. No matter how fanciful and unrealistic the subject may be, the lighting must be realistic.

After perfecting his process and working with countless photos, Marsal has automated parts of his techniques and encapsulated them into a Photoshop action that helps him organize layers of light and shadow and create magical photos.

Install and use automatic actions in Adobe Photoshop

This Carles Marsal file is ready to use on your digital images and photographs. All you need to do is download and install it on Adobe Photoshop.

Install Photoshop Actions

Open Photoshop and go to the Actions panel (Window> Actions). Once there, click on the four horizontal lines that open the tool options and select the option Load actions .... Select the file on your computer and you will see that the new action now appears on the list.

Use Photoshop Actions

To apply the automated steps recorded in a Photoshop action, simply select it and press the Play key. Please note that some require that you previously make a selection before being able to execute them, while others can be executed in a complete file. It is also important to note that it is not essential to execute all of the action's commands; you can select the ones that interest you the most.

Click the link below to download the .zip file with the Photoshop Action in .atn format. The file will be in your Downloads folder.

Sign up for the course Secrets of Photomontage and Creative Retouching, where Carles Marsal will teach you professional techniques for composition, retouching and lighting for photographs.

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