Sunlight shining down?

How can I make a person look like the sun is shining down on him?

Select the areas where you'd guess there would be light, feather the selection, and then adjust the brightness/contrast or levels, even hue/saturation if you want a golden sort of luck.

try adding some solar flares in the opposite direction too

NO.... DONT ADD LENS FLARES....

LENS FLARES ARE BAD.... never use lens flares as long as you live.. and im not kidding.... :D

Well this isn't REALLY what you are asking for but I think it might help you along if you wanted to try this. It is a tutorial I was doing a while back and haven't got around to finishing.

Lets get started:

I'm using the default sample .tif file that ships with photoshop called "Dune.tif"

We're going to make some sunrays coming out of that opening in the clouds.

start by making a rectangle selection with the rectangle selection tool.


Now lets right click inside the selection (ctr+click on a mac) and select "transformselection"


Now right click again inside the selection (ctr+click on a mac) ans choose "skew"

click on the upper left "node" on the transform bounding box and drag it down to the bottom left "node" to make your selection a triangle. Hit enter.

Now fill your triangle selection with a light color (I used white) reduce the layer's opacity down to about 30% or so. Now CTR+D to deselect and do a guassian blur on the layer to soften the edges.... (I used a setting of like 9)


Now I just duplicate my sunray and positions a couple of them, do a little masking and taaaahdahhhh.... Sunrays!
Finished image:

Actually, I have a cropped image of a man. I am placing it in picture of a park on a sunny day. The sun is coming down from the upper left corner of the picture. I'm trying to correctly shade his face and body.