Help to achieve light simulation

I've got the following challenge: a light bulb shines above sky clouds and has a very bright, shining light. I got the bulb and the clouds, but how to achieve/simulate the bright shining of the light bulbs remains unsolved so far.
Any ideas highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Uli

In article <40adbac7$0$13462$>,
"Ulrich Bleicher" wrote:

I've got the following challenge: a light bulb shines above sky clouds and has a very bright, shining light. I got the bulb and the clouds, but how to achieve/simulate the bright shining of the light bulbs remains unsolved so far.
Any ideas highly appreciated.

Fiter - render - lighting effects
That's one tool. It is much like a graduated layer with automatic masks.

Then you can add very soft drop shadows with large size and offset, and edit them using a mask.

And some fancy hand-airbrush work.

I have no online examples to point to but someone else might.

Thank you very much. This one helped me out. See the result on http://www.fotocommunity.de/pc/pc/mypics/431189/display/1397 226

Best regards
Uli

jjs wrote:

In article
<40adbac7$0$13462$>, "Ulrich
Bleicher" wrote:

I've got the following challenge: a light bulb shines above sky clouds and has a very bright, shining light. I got the bulb and the clouds, but how to achieve/simulate the bright shining of the light bulbs remains unsolved so far.
Any ideas highly appreciated.

Fiter - render - lighting effects
That's one tool. It is much like a graduated layer with automatic masks.

Then you can add very soft drop shadows with large size and offset, and edit them using a mask.

And some fancy hand-airbrush work.

I have no online examples to point to but someone else might.