Why am I watching this? It’s 1 am and I have a test tomorrow. I DON’T EVEN HAVE PHOTOSHOP!

The shadow tip is ok at best, but UNLINKING TO ADJUST THE GRADIENT on the mask is crazy useful for other edits! 📣🔥

I think I’ll just stick to making shadows by hand.

It's 5AM. I haven't slept. And now I'm capable of a photoshop skill I never had.

Me watching this, even tho I don't have Photoshop: 👁️👄👁️

Me watching this knowing I won't use any of these skills: 👁👄👁

As an artist, it pains when people add this warped shadow without an obvious lightsource that will make a shadow that way, if we actually consider the environment and how the girl herself looks, the shadow will be from above thats tilted to the side which will give a shadow on the bottom that is *slightly* to the side and probably wont show the proportions

This one short taught me more about shadows than an entire semester of photoshop classes

It is best to remember that shadows change drastically with the lighting of the background, so it would be better to try and see where the light is coming from, and take a color from the background rather than the body. Even then, for the sake of perspective it is sometimes better to draw in shadows yourself, like when the shadow would be below the person. The softness of the shadow also depends on how bright it is. The brighter the light the more solid the shadow will appear, and if there are multiple lights, there will actually be multiple shadows.

That shadow is ok...if it was an overcast day or diffused light source. A shadow cause by direct sunlight would be a darker harsher shadow with barley any blur. Sometimes looking up some references can help in getting the right type of shadows to match. In this case "desert sun light shadows" are a good set of key words to use.

ah yes, I'll remember this easy and simple strategy

Field Blur is what I was looking for for more than 10 years as a graphic designer 😂

By the time you're done fiddling with all the settings and setting up the layer mask, I have drawn the shadow by hand ten times over.

This works so long as you have a light source hitting from the right direction and don't mind fuzzy shadows, but we all have a shadow, we see it all the time, is it often that blurry and faded toward one end? I'm looking at mine right now, slight blur around the edge but nice and crisp for the most part. This type of shadow is more similar to early video game shadows.

🎉 Whoa, this guy knows his stuff!

Omg I’m a high school student with graphics tech and this helps so much

i didn’t understand how to do the second one so i’ll just stick to the one that you simply draw 😅 fun fact: i don’t know how to do the first one neither 😂

Me listening to this very carefully for 5 times even though I don’t have photo shop……. I don’t have my hw done💀

Already found a great use for this, thank you for much!

We are learning photo shop for our 3rd grading and this really helped me!

Okay that’s going to work but now we have the separate issue of the background having a different lighting than the light on the person

"Don't do shadows by hand instead do this!" *proceeds to make it 100x harder than doing it by hand*

this dude taught me more than my art design teacher at school

Remember that you can also use the drop shadow effect and mess with the settings too if this doesn’t work for you :)

Very handy, especially for those like myself who are too poor to draw digitally

Another tip to make the shadow more realistic is to make a very tiny black outline around the point of contact between the subject and the ground like a second shadow.

this is what i used to do back when i was an amateur (except without the gradient, i actually hadn't thought of that)

Bro's actually doing good shadows

This only works if youre looking in more or less the same direction as the sun (Think about someone standing with their side facing you and arms spread. You don't see the arms in the outline, but for sure in the shadow)

Awesome tip. Don't forget to set the shadow layer to Multiply!

I will do what I want! I love my Shadowing technique

“Wait start over I didn’t quite get that”

You can add a shadow effect too

It's funny how I watch all these Photoshop tutorials and yet I don't even do anything related to photo manipulation lol

You are a genius. I suck at shadows, now I don't.

Way simpler way to do this would be to just dupe the layer and apply a solid color, then do the warp and blur.

That shadow looks like the sun is a spotlight that is close to her and very low above her. (but the angle could be adjusted to fix that)

Use 3D feature auto light shadow effect It better

I’ve never used photoshop and this was all super obvious (except for getting a shadow from the first image, that’s a really good tip)

Another great use of the Shorts. Bravo! I generally do this, minus the gradient step. Great suggestion!

Awesome

1. Drop shadow 2.done

Definitely works when in graphics class, we are working in photoshop! 😀

I don't even have photoshop but these videos are entertaining for some reason

Looked better without shadow. The shadow is also blurred too much . One would expect a harsh shadow there Tip: don't add a shadow there

You're the only other person (other than Joss Rossi) who I've seen who applies a gradient mask so the further the shadow is, the fainter the shadow is. This is really attention to detail 👍👍

Nice shadow tip

Shadows are really defined in the real world they aren’t always blurry

"STOP dont draw it on, just do this - " *proceeds to list 1000 complicated photoshop steps*

Why don't you just copy the subject , then fill it with black and go from there , this needless overcomplication sucks really.

i actually have photoshop classes in school and this helps alot!

I am in a media class and this would have been really useful for first trimester

this is basically what i do when drawing(I dont have photoshop but I do draw a lot)

omg thank you so much this really helped with making a custom shadow to my photos!

thats cool its a good tip

I don't even have a computer or laptop And I don't plan to do photoshop And still I'm watching

I learned this on my own. I feel cool now.

When they say it is not rocket science, this isn't what they were thinking about

As a person who have never photoshopped their entire life, this is really helpful

Nice! Now all I need is this program and I am good to go!

this was super helpful and quick holy shit

This is so informative! Thank you for telling me this! I will never use this information in my life! Mainly because i don't have photoshop nor i have ever wanted to learn it lol.

Thanks, my class uses photoshop so this really helps 😊

I kinda imagined somethinf like this good job u have read my mind

This is WONDERFUL!!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

a shadow is clear and seeable on the places near the contact to the shadow and the farther it gets for example to the head it would slowly get blurrier

I've been doing this for a long time now. Easy and work's perfectly

Woow soo easy for begginers soo easy

This is so helpful for my brain!

Wow ! Good tutorial :)

Wow thanks thats actually ^^ really helpful

warded. This will make a fine addition to my collection

Thank you!

gotta love the internet... I've been working in photoshop since.. well since I was a baby...(thank you dad :) ) and still learn stuff ^_^

You can also just use the opacity tool to make it sit on the background more realistically as you'll also be able to see some of the floor texture. Notice he edited the hardest bit, actually getting the shadow to sit properly in perspective

Cooooll , I’ll forget this tomorrow but cooolll

Well it makes me feel better to know I already did this when I was younger (I didn’t do this on photoshop tho, I was an ibisX paint enjoyer)

i dont even have photoshop..yet i stayed for the whole clip

Friendly reminder that any kind of blending or masking an area based on pixel count shouldn't be a hard value but rather a ratio. Some images might be 600 pixels wide, and others 20,000

Thx for advice!

This video taught me more then my teachers combined teaches

It looks as good as doing it by hand

Oh wow this is amazing

this looks like something you would see on india's youtube thumbnails

Thankyou 👍

thank you this was so helpful

Hey cool thanks for the sweet tips to make it easier for me to make even cooler stuff for my KZfaq

Very helpful thanks

I use photoshop for drawing but this is still very useful for me thank you

It’s a good trick to know, saves a lot of time

Thx it really helped😊

That’s a lot of work ima stick with drawing my shadows thanks for the help though!

Thanks that is gonna be useful, I'll try it tomorrow :>

I ain’t even got photoshop but I’m learning more than school

That is cool

excellent tutorial, thank you

You can also use distort

Short yet very informative.

To make it EXTRA realistic, make it blurrier the further away it goes, that how shadows are in real life. If you try it, the shadows of your feet are not blurry but your head is blurry

Even though this is photoshop and I have ibispaint, this helps, gracias.