Paying attention to the interplay of light and shadow can help you make your digital paintings look more life-like. So in our new course, How to Digitally Paint Lighting Scenes, digital artist Char Reed will discuss the theory of how light can make or break your digital paintings. You'll then get practical and be shown how to digitally paint lighting on various objects and scenes, all within Adobe Photoshop.

You can take our new course straight away with a subscription to Envato Elements. For a single low monthly fee, you get access not only to this course, but also to our growing library of over 1,000 video courses and industry-leading eBooks on Envato Tuts+.

Plus you now get unlimited downloads from the huge Envato Elements library of 200,000+ photos and 26,000+ design assets and templates. Create with unique fonts, photos, graphics and templates, and deliver better projects faster.

Or if you want to take a shortcut to creating great lighting effects, check out some of the lighting Photoshop actions on Envato Market.