### Tuts+ Course: Digital painting With Ambient Occlusion
#### Instructor: Monika Zagrobelna

Lighting is a very complicated issue, so 3D programs separate it into special "maps", each dealing with a single aspect of light. We can use this technique in Photoshop, tooinstead of painting the character as a whole, we can create a series of layers based on 3D maps. Famous Ambient Occlusion is one of them. This is a very universal technique, and while its not fast, it lets you understand lighting so deeply that youll be able to develop other, faster methods afterwards, or to find out whats wrong with the method youre currently using.

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