Pixelmator Pro tutorial: flower glow and fantasy lighting

Sammy demonstrates a fantasy photo edit in Pixelmator Pro, turning flowers into the light source for a dark outdoor scene. The workflow starts with separate layers for the subject, flowers, branch, sky and field. Selection refinement and masks help soften edges before a replacement night sky and a blue Multiply layer darken the scene.

The flower glow uses a brightened flower layer above pink-filled duplicates with Gaussian blur. Sammy then paints through masks to control where the light reaches the branch, face and nearby grass. A soft brush at about 13% opacity builds the branch lighting gradually. Replace Color changes yellow highlights to pink, while a masked Soft Light fill at around 40% opacity extends the color across selected areas.

For pixie dust, Sammy paints white particles with the Broken Spray brush and places blurred pink copies beneath them. The two particle treatments use blur radii of about 20 and nine pixels, with Linear Dodge on the glow and particle opacity reduced to around 45%.

The final section changes the palette to cyan by updating glow fills and Replace Color adjustments on the object layers. The tutorial focuses on manual selections, masks and coordinated lighting adjustments; it does not demonstrate an AI model workflow.