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How do I achieve different lighting using Live Lighting


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I have an image where I want to have three lights.  I set up my first light, then *added* a light and then *added* a third.  Each one I set up the Ambient light and other features separately thinking that each would remain as set up.  However, then when I looked back discovered that they had all ended up with my last settings for the third light, Ambient 40% etc.  Why do they not keep the settings individually?  I then thought of trying using Copy, but the same thing happens.  Naively, I then thought that I would add an extra Lighting Layer, but as you will know that does not work, because only the top Lighting layer has effect.  I could separate the image into three and have Live Lighting Child layers, but do not want to do that.

How can I have three lights which have individual settings please?  😬

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38 minutes ago, Jaffa said:

Each one I set up the Ambient light and other features separately thinking that each would remain as set up.

Ambient light is the indirect illumination coming from the surroundings, like what might bounce off walls & ceiling in a room. It is independent of illumination coming directly from the light(s) you add. There is only one setting for its intensity & its color because it is an aggregate effect.

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7 hours ago, Jaffa said:

How can I have three lights which have individual settings please?

For this, you could simulate the lighting effect with individual adjustments + layer blend modes, separately for each "light source" and / or "ambient light", each of them limited by an individual mask with the desired shape / blur. Alternatively you can combine such a workaround with the lighting filter, using the manual masks for ambient light only.

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17 hours ago, thomaso said:

 manual masks for ambient light only.

By "manual masks" you  mean?

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