Photoshop bending shadow
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- Hue
I was looking at this jquery slideshow the other day, and noticed the shadow that has been added to create some depth to the image. I know this effect is used a lot, but how would you create it? I can think of a few ways to do it, but just wondered how people would go about it.
- bigtrick0
the spherize filter works. so rectangular marquee, fill with grey, spherize, gaussian blur.
- NONEIS0
edit / transform / warp
drag bottom 2 center bezier handles up.
done.
- or draw the shape and blur itdoublespaced
- or not – photoshop is better at geometry than your eye, trust me...NONEIS
- yurp, draw shape and blur.tymeframe
- scarabin0
for shadows i duplicate the layer, hue/sat the bottom one to black, then warp to create whatever curves you like. then hand-blur it using the blur tool.
the further way from the surface the object is the blurrier it is, so i use the blur-tool to do it manually.
- and of course adjust the opacity to match your lighting conditionsscarabin
- Hue0
Thanks guys, I find that really interesting to find out different ways of creating this effect.
- scarabin0
another quick trick i use is instead of using warp, just hit distort, grab the lower right corner, and pull it down diagonally a bit.
gives a different shape