Creating shadow in Photoshop – please help

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Neil Hindry
Oct 17, 2004
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I wonder if you can help me.

I have a figure which is a cartoon type character and I want to create a shadow that will be on the floor. I want the character and its shadow to creates almost an ‘L’ shaped image (shadow is approx 80-90 degrees from the person. The shadow can either be at the left or right hand side of the character.
The vertical part of the ‘L’ is the character and the horizontal part of the ‘L’ is he shadow.

The sort of thing I am after is the thing you see in old B&W movies where you see the shadow on the ground but not the person.

Does anyone know how I can do this?

I hope you understand what I mean and I hope you can help me.

I appreciate any help or information given.

Thanks!


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redTed
Oct 17, 2004
"Neil Hindry" wrote in message
I wonder if you can help me.

I have a figure which is a cartoon type character and I want to create a shadow that will be on the floor. I want the character and its shadow to creates almost an ‘L’ shaped image (shadow is approx 80-90 degrees from the person. The shadow can either be at the left or right hand side of the character.
The vertical part of the ‘L’ is the character and the horizontal part of the ‘L’ is he shadow.

The sort of thing I am after is the thing you see in old B&W movies where you see the shadow on the ground but not the person.

Does anyone know how I can do this?

I hope you understand what I mean and I hope you can help me.
I appreciate any help or information given.

Thanks!

Is your cartoon figure shadowy ?
Make your cartoon in a new layer…Once you’re happy with it, select the layer…..With the selection still active, create a new layer and fill with black…..Deselect and use free transform to flip the new black layer and then distort or do whatever to create the effect you desire.
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noone
Oct 17, 2004
In article <41728bf4$0$22748$>,
says…
I wonder if you can help me.

I have a figure which is a cartoon type character and I want to create a shadow that will be on the floor. I want the character and its shadow to creates almost an ‘L’ shaped image (shadow is approx 80-90 degrees from the person. The shadow can either be at the left or right hand side of the character.
The vertical part of the ‘L’ is the character and the horizontal part of the ‘L’ is he shadow.

The sort of thing I am after is the thing you see in old B&W movies where you see the shadow on the ground but not the person.

Does anyone know how I can do this?

I hope you understand what I mean and I hope you can help me.
I appreciate any help or information given.

Thanks!

One personal thought on posting to these two NG’s: while some frown on X- posting, in this particular case, you have two NG’s dedicated to PS, and with overlapping, but slightly different subscriber bases. Your question is a good one, and the answer is quite simple. Discussion of it could well benefit subscribers in both NG’s. If you did X-post to both of these NG’s, the thread would be followed in both. Again, this is MY personal opinion, and is open to debate, but I can’t think of any valid reason not to do so in this case.

redTed gives you the answer here, and I offered pretty much the same in comp …photoshop.

Good luck with your shadow,
Hunt
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Bernie
Oct 20, 2004
On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 16:09:28 +0100, "Neil Hindry" wrote:

I wonder if you can help me.

I have a figure which is a cartoon type character and I want to create a shadow that will be on the floor. I want the character and its shadow to creates almost an ‘L’ shaped image (shadow is approx 80-90 degrees from the person. The shadow can either be at the left or right hand side of the character.
The vertical part of the ‘L’ is the character and the horizontal part of the ‘L’ is he shadow.

The sort of thing I am after is the thing you see in old B&W movies where you see the shadow on the ground but not the person.

Does anyone know how I can do this?

I hope you understand what I mean and I hope you can help me.
I appreciate any help or information given.

Thanks!
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There are several ways, but I like this one:

1. Make certain that the cartoon is on a real layer (not background)
2. Select the carton figure. & copy (Ctrl or Cmd) and paste (Ctrl or
Cmd-V)
3. Select the new layer in the layers pallet and put a drop shadow on it
4. Layer –>Layer Style –>Create Layer
5. Select the shadow layer and Edit –>Transform –> Skew, Distort or Perspective to adjust shadow.
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Corey
Oct 21, 2004
I remember using Adobe PhotoDeluxe a long time ago where you could adjust and skew the drop shadow independently of the image itself. I never figured out why that feature never carried over to Photoshop.

What I’ve always done in Photoshop is to copy the layer, adjust brightness and contrast to make it one color, desaturate to make it black if black is my desired color, skew it and adjust the opacity. Feathering often adds more realism, depending on distance and perceived light source.

Peadge 🙂

<Bernie> wrote in message
On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 16:09:28 +0100, "Neil Hindry" wrote:

I wonder if you can help me.

I have a figure which is a cartoon type character and I want to create a shadow that will be on the floor. I want the character and its shadow to creates almost an ‘L’ shaped image (shadow is approx 80-90 degrees from
the
person. The shadow can either be at the left or right hand side of the character.
The vertical part of the ‘L’ is the character and the horizontal part of
the
‘L’ is he shadow.

The sort of thing I am after is the thing you see in old B&W movies where you see the shadow on the ground but not the person.

Does anyone know how I can do this?

I hope you understand what I mean and I hope you can help me.
I appreciate any help or information given.

Thanks!
=====================
There are several ways, but I like this one:

1. Make certain that the cartoon is on a real layer (not background)
2. Select the carton figure. & copy (Ctrl or Cmd) and paste (Ctrl or
Cmd-V)
3. Select the new layer in the layers pallet and put a drop shadow on it
4. Layer –>Layer Style –>Create Layer
5. Select the shadow layer and Edit –>Transform –> Skew, Distort or Perspective to adjust shadow.

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