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thehermit

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 6:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ermmm.... @seaco:

The shadow should not be a drop shadow but a blurred and distorted reflection of the couple, set at the right angle. We don't know what resolution the original is in to say it's not feasible.

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seaco

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 7:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

thehermit wrote:
ermmm.... @seaco:

The shadow should not be a drop shadow but a blurred and distorted reflection of the couple, set at the right angle. We don't know what resolution the original is in to say it's not feasible.


Ahh! see what you mean about the shadow your right as for the resolution I mean you can't add wisps etc. to the resolution of the pics supplied!

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magnus1

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 7:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'll give it a go. Cheers for the help guys!

I'm hopeless with shadows. But my original image is 24x24inches at 200dpi. I'm making a canvas of my daughters, so I want it to look good.
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pixel8or

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 10:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The shadow areas marked x and y have to go. It looks like the background is right in front of them and destroys the illusion. Also the outline of both girls needs a soft edge brush to make them blend into the background plate.


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niftyned

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 1:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Working from that small pic that you posted and without the luxury of layers to work with I used the lasso tool and copied the two girls and pasted the copy onto a new layer,applied a black overlay and used the transform>perspective tool to position the shadow, finally adjusted the transparency and the whole process took about two minutes.


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magnus1

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 3:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

niftyned... I can't get my shadow to match that angle using the perspective tool. Mines going sideways and looks weird.
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niftyned

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 3:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

magnus1 wrote:
niftyned... I can't get my shadow to match that angle using the perspective tool. Mines going sideways and looks weird.


Well, I cant imagine why that would be. Are you only dragging the bounding box from one point? Try the skew or warp tools as well if you cant get it but I know the perspective tool works because that is how I did it.

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magnus1

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 6:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, still funky. I've tried dragging each corner and side, but6 I'm still messing it up. Confused
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seaco

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

magnus1 wrote:
Yeah, still funky. I've tried dragging each corner and side, but6 I'm still messing it up. Confused


Try pressing Ctrl when you pull the corner!

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magnus1

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

lol! still sux... I've never really messed with perspective before. I guess this is why! Is there a plugin? I had one for an earlier photoshop.
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