Realistic Shadows…

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Martin Chiselwitt
Dec 9, 2003
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This leads on from a question that i asked about vector masks in Photoshop. What I have [an example anyway] is a picture of a charcter playing a keyboard.
I need to make a ‘shadow’ for this [and other characters], but i cannot skew the shadow when i make it, as if i pull it in one place it goes out in another.. [does that make sense??]
I assume [incorredctly it seems ] that i could kind-of make ‘multiple centres’ to the selection in Photoshop.. but no..
Does anyone know of a good technique to make realistic shadows? In a less complicated set-up, I would usually copy the subject to a sperate layer, fill with black then distort and skew… but these illustrations are to complex for that to work…

thanks

mart

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JP Kabala
Dec 10, 2003
Have you tried using displacement maps to distort your shadows? This is a Russell Brown tutorial you may find useful
http://www.jtgraphics.net/sample/SHADOW_REMOVEL.pdf
and this one is from Bert Monroy
http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/answerstips/story/0,24330 ,3427765,00.html

"Martin Chiselwitt" wrote in message
This leads on from a question that i asked about vector masks in
Photoshop.
What I have [an example anyway] is a picture of a charcter playing a keyboard.
I need to make a ‘shadow’ for this [and other characters], but i cannot skew the shadow when i make it, as if i pull it in one place it goes out in another.. [does that make sense??]en
I assume [incorredctly it seems ] that i could kind-of make ‘multiple centres’ to the selection in Photoshop.. but no..
Does anyone know of a good technique to make realistic shadows? In a less complicated set-up, I would usually copy the subject to a sperate layer, fill with black then distort and skew… but these illustrations are to complex for that to work…

thanks

mart

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