Re: Trying to find spotlight filter plugin for night lighting Posted by Ron Ackerley on Saturday, 9 September 2000, at 9:22 a.m., in response to Trying to find spotlight filter plugin for night lighting, posted by Jeff Cole on Friday, 8 September 2000, at 8:48 p.m. Hi Jeff, Making spotlights on parts is actually so easy I dont really see the need for a special plugin for it. Try doing it as follows and see if this works for you. 1. Open your texture in PSP. 2. Promote color depth to 16 million 3. Add a new Raster layer to the image. Leave the layer setting at normal. 4. Using the paint fill tool at 100% fill the new layer with solid black. 5. Open the layer palette and use the slider to reduce the opacity to the desired level for your new layer. The layer palette can be opened by clicking on the overlapping red and light blue squares icon on the toolbar. 6. Now click on the eraser tool. Set the tool to an approximate size for your spot light. set the hardness to "0" and opacity to 85or higher. set the step to "2" and the Density to 100. 7. Click once on the new layer and you will see a basic spot shape with a smooth fade to solid black. 8. To shape the spot do the following. Double click on the title bar of the image to cause it to use the full PSP window. You will see why in a minute 9. Click on the "deformation" tool on the tool bar. you will now see your entire new layer is selected for modification. Simply drag one of the sides away from the center of the image to stretch your spot. To rotate the spot to an angle you will find a handle in the center of the deformation tool. By placing your cursor over the end of the handle you will see it change to a turn icon for the tool. Hold the left mouse button down and turn the entire layer to the desired angle. Under most conditions this only takes me about a minute to complete. Using some of the other tools you can further alter the shape if desired. As with most things I think you will find that knowing how to create your own custom spots will be more rewarding and useful than using presets. Another way to do it would be to make a set of "Custom Brushes" for PSP which can also be done. But that is for some other time. Best regards, Ron Ackerley