Help: how to create shadows?

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blacklight
Jun 27, 2009
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Have uploaded a shot ‘THE NON-CONFORMIST’ (http://www.oz- greetings.com.au/photo). It shows many matchsticks in Australia’s outback. Each stick ought to have a shadow . I tried to paint it in by hand – impossible. Does anyone know of a way to do it?
Thanks for help – Klaus and Rusty

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Bigguy
Jun 29, 2009
blacklight wrote:
Have uploaded a shot ‘THE NON-CONFORMIST’ (http://www.oz- greetings.com.au/photo). It shows many matchsticks in Australia’s outback. Each stick ought to have a shadow . I tried to paint it in by hand – impossible. Does anyone know of a way to do it?
Thanks for help – Klaus and Rusty
Well….

Duplicate the matches onto a new layer.

Use levels /selection etc. to make matches black on a transparent background.

Use free transform to align black matches to original image, scale and give direction of shadow.

Use opacity etc. to blend shadows into image.

There are other ways too…

Guy
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blacklight
Jul 1, 2009
On Jun 29, 6:32 pm, Bigguy wrote:
blacklight wrote:
Have uploaded a shot ‘THE NON-CONFORMIST’ (http://www.oz- greetings.com.au/photo). It shows many matchsticks in Australia’s outback. Each stick ought to have a shadow . I tried to paint it in by hand – impossible. Does anyone know of a way to do it?
Thanks for help – Klaus and Rusty

Well….

Duplicate the matches onto a new layer.

Use levels /selection etc. to make matches black on a transparent background.

Use free transform to align black matches to original image, scale and give direction of shadow.

Use opacity etc. to blend shadows into image.

There are other ways too…

Guy

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Many thanks for your reply Guy – much appreciated.
Cheers – Klaus

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