In Photoshop I use the paintbrush tool... set it to one of the fuzzier medium sized brushes, set the color to black, drop the fill down to around 10 to 20% then go over the areas that you want to darken. Go over a few times till it's as dark as you want it. Sorry I'm horrid at describing things.

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How did you do the lighting effect? I'm currently having problems achieve this effect on my own without some sort of tutorial.

P.S. You don't want it any darker than what it is now; otherwise, when you print it out all you'll get is a black muddy square. Everything always prints out darker than what it appears on the computer monitor.