How to Create Shadow in photoshop cs6 - Photoshop Tutorial
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The document is a step-by-step guide for creating shadows in Photoshop CS6. It begins with selecting a photo and the object, then moving it to a new layer, filling the background with white, and creating the shadow on a separate layer. Finally, it covers positioning the shadows and saving the final image as a PNG file.
How to Create Shadow in photoshop cs6 - Photoshop Tutorial
- 2. Step 1 Select the photo Select the photo and click to Elliptical Marquee Tool
- 3. Step 2 Select the ball Using an Elliptical Marquee Tool, select the ball. You can constrain your selection by holding down the Shift key on your keyboard (this will make your Elliptical Marquee Tool a perfect circle). You can "cycle through" all the selection tools by pressing Shift + M.
- 4. Step 3 Send the selected objected to a new layer. After selecting the ball, press Ctrl + J (or do it the long way by going to: Layer > New > Layer via Copy). This will throw anything selected (ball in this case) up to a new layer.
- 5. Step 4 Fill the background with a solid color which must be white Press D on your keyboard to take your current colors to the default white and black values. Now press Ctrl + Delete. If you were on a Background layer, it should now be filled with white color, if it's not, something has gone terribly wrong.
- 6. Step 5 Create a Shadaw Select the Brush Tool by pressing B ( for brush). Set the Master Diameter to 100px and Hardness to 0% (right click your mouse anywhere inside of your image to get the following 2nd pop-up). Must be done on a separate layer!
- 7. Step 6 Stretch Out Your Newly Created “Shadow” Horizontally And Lower The Opacity To 60%
- 8. Step 7 Create A Second 50% Smaller Shadow In A New Layer And Transform It Accordingly •Now select minimum 50px Master Diameter tools of of the Brush Tool and in a new layer create a second, smaller "shadow". You will leave this one at 100% Opacity.
- 9. Step 8 Positioning (A Little Bit Of Theory / Explanation) Once you have aligned them (you can select multiple layers by holding down the Ctrl key, clicking on the layers you want selected and then selecting an alignment option from a menu that looks like this:
- 10. Step 9 Saving The Final Image As A Png (Optional) Click on the "eye" icon right beside your main Background layer. This will disable (or hide, if you will) that specific layer. Now press Ctrl + Alt + Shift + S (aka Save for Web).
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