Adding halo effect in PSE12 ?

[landyvlad]

I am playing with an image in which I've placed a vehicle on a new background. I've applied a filter to the vehicle to get the colour balance close to that of the background.

There is now some lighting from behind the vehicle which (were it a real photo) would result in a halo or edge highlights along the top of the vehicle.

I don't really want to post the image yet, but what's the best way of adding a 'fake' halo in this manner.

(There are no existing highlights on the vehicle image to enhance)

Hope this makes sense.

[wayn0i]

You could use a curves layer to get the brightness/ tone of the halo then mask the curves level to come through only in the area you want it, if you want a nice feather try a luminosity mask



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[landyvlad]

Thanks I'll look into that.. just need to find out what both of those things mean... LOL