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mike2355

Joined: 21 Jul 2006
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 12:01 pm    Post subject: shadow help Reply with quote

hey im making a sig fr a friend and i need to know how to make a shadow? i have an image of something on an object and it looks 3d i want to duplicate the image and make a shadow of it to put on the object but dont no how...what steps do i do to make a shadow?
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mike2355

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 12:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

nevnermind i figured it out i duplicated the image, colour the image all grey then went to the layer and selected multiply and then went to blending options by right clicking the layer, clicked satin and drop shadow and it looked pretty good
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qubert

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 4:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You may want to blur the shadow and drop the opactity on it too. And shadows are usually all black here on earth - not grey. ;-)
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 5:39 pm    Post subject: Re: shadow help Reply with quote

mike2355 wrote:
hey im making a sig fr a friend and i need to know how to make a shadow? i have an image of something on an object and it looks 3d i want to duplicate the image and make a shadow of it to put on the object but dont no how...what steps do i do to make a shadow?


When you get into learning all about alpha channels, you can make the shadow fade like I have done here. This took me ten minutes to create.



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