16 million color Lighting Effect Drawing:
There are 2 methods of adding lighting here, large and small lighting effects. Both of these methods are very simple, and after you learn them, you can advance it with your own talents.
The 1st way:
1. I want to add lighting coming down the chest from that white dot on the neck armor.
2. First I cut the area I DO NOT want to have any lighting effects on. In this
case it is the area along the edges of the light. This gives the effect of the light
pointing down. You don't have to do this if you want a full circle of lighting.
(This is it's own image, do not save this over your original)
3. I used the Retouch on lighten size 40 here. I placed my pointer on the
white dot, and clicked a few times till I got the right amount.
4. Now I just pasted the area from the image in #2, and load the q2
palette. That would be your finished lighting effect.
Now the other, simpler way.
Ok, I wanted to add a small effect of light around this red area.
So I copied that image and just ran a SOFTEN filter on the whole thing.
Now,
copy the area around where it softened...
...and
paste it back over your original edge. Though the size of this image is small, the red
ring around the red "light" is very noticeable in game.