🔥 Create Realistic Cast Shadows in Photoshop

[@matheusmuller1535]

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

[@DudesOnline]

That's what I asked myself after finishing the video, minus the test part

[@pedrobrandes8097]

it's the algorithm it know you wanted to know this 🤣

[@isxndy]

Yea it’s the same for me

[@adrianghandtchi1562]

Welcome to the Internet, where you are compelled to scroll and for some reason comment.

[@doober.43]

4am rn

[@Palooz]

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

[@JMGauthier]

I’ve struggled with using the gradient tool to get the correct gradient. Unlinking and moving is genius. 🤦‍♂️

[@mazens82]

p

[@p1kkuma]

Never knew you could do that! I just keep redoing the gradient over and over until I get it where I want it lol

[@BoZl_]

I’m gonna act like I know all of this

[@SPJ-88]

Important tip after unlocking the mask is ALWAYS LINK IT BACK after editing the position. Otherwise the next time you move a group of layers with one of them having an unlinked mask, the mask will not follow and mess up that layer. Especially if the mask is too subtle to notice.

[@N0NESENCE]

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

[@fixsationon7244]

Me watching this. Has a photoshop. Who needs photoshop and is useful for me. But im going to forget it👍

[@starxbutterflyyt8011]

Lol yes

[@RelativeConfusion]

​@@fixsationon7244 bro exactly 😂 I have photoshop and use it all the time but like hth am I gonna remember all these steps lol

[@EEE.570]

Me:

[@Josh72769]

also me:

[@capcut.cassxx]

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

[@Bax365]

Chad move. It'll ultimately be more useful especially when the tools aren't there, it'll force you to learn the mechanics of light and shadow.

[@telephoto]

@@Bax365 traditional photo editing sounds like hell

[@The.Good.Place.]

This is definitely easier, especially when using keyboard short cuts for simple things, e.g. z for select, ctrl +, I for eyedropper, things like that. If your affiliated w/ PS then that's a lot easier

[@Mong_Seungmin_Mong_Yeosang]

Seriously man… I don’t even photoshop..

[@charlesajayi974]

Yep

[@thedude7202]

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

[@jetboxtm4038]

Please sleep 🥺

[@znedj]

Chad.

[@Akshingame-gs6tl]

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

[@informer2142]

Me watching knowing I don’t even draw

[@Dazzle41]

Bruh same

[@ilikechoccymilk5605]

Same I don't even have Photoshop.

[@adventure_junkie5340]

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.

[@mari_xq9916]

Very well said.

[@angelmichael5030]

So whose gunna get him to 1k likes? I'm 997 😎

[@woopyboi]

998 boyz

[@woopyboi]

1k when?

[@galacticlaser4461]

hey man i like your old music playlist

[@apjgraphix]

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.

[@minnow1337]

even so he gave you all of the tools to make and adjust shadows for most situations

[@Sarcastican_]

Yeah. Just give it less blur and stretch it further if it's a hard light or spotlight.

[@kittenmimi5326]

His tip still works tho

[@RCmies]

Yeah it's a flat space with not much indirect light coming from the surroundings

[@dustin202]

That and there would be different lighting on the person

[@neroshome3520]

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

[@kaiserkuhnz7163]

This is a tutorial to "Create Realistic Cast Shadows in Photoshop", not to show us how to draw a perfect shadow for that specific picture. Focus on the relevant.

[@AccountName9390]

​@@kaiserkuhnz7163the shadow is not going to be realistic if it does not match the light source. Might as well just draw it by hand.

[@executedcode4280]

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

[@wildhogOW]

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.

[@solaris5922]

Honestly 💀

[@bbew2914]

airbrush does the work💀

[@kllause6681]

I mean as someone who has actually used this technique once you get it down, it only takes like 5 mins tops,, this tip is also really good for beginners who struggle with drawing shadows by hand,,, by using a mixture of this and drawing not only can you teach them to draw by hand, but also allow them to make something solid in the process.

[@brutusthebear9050]

​@@kllause6681 Isn't it better to struggle with something until you get it, doing it wrong, rather than taking shortcuts?

[@BlueV205]

​​​@@brutusthebear9050 For me, it's less of a shortcut and more of a "one of the many ways to Rome". If you want to draw by hand, go ahead. If you want to use this method, it's fine, too. Everyone has their own way of making art, and there's no "right or wrong" and "better or worse" at doing it.

[@すしねこちゃん]

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

[@dove3MC]

why the fuck is your name sushi cat

[@RiArtaaaa]

Same 😅

[@MrWaffle888]

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 😂

[@squiddog9682]

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

[@Nictator42]

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

[@Delta9Church]

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.

[@TapJegi]

then just put a lesser value into the blur field. His job is just to showcase that such option exists, not to make a perfect picture here.

[@Delta9Church]

@@TapJegi yeah that's why I opened with "this works" and followed up with extra words to indicate that, while it will paint an effective shadow, it doesn't look perfect. Like you said. I don't really see the problem.

[@eedazz]

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

[@kllause6681]

this is definitely NOT harder than doing it by hand wtf are you on about 💀. doing a decent realistic shadow by hand can take hours to get right, whereas after doing this a couple times it take 5-10 mins tops.

[@DeletedDevilDeletedAngel]

@@kllause6681 you gonna loop the tutorial after fucking up which adds half an hour or more to that edit

[@Harvaine]

@@kllause6681 doing it by hand and pressing Ctrl+z a few times itsn't as complex as go to multiple dropdown menu's multiple times, drag here drag there, nah, hardest part is gradient but thats still quick, idk, i don't use PS, i can see the usage being helpful, so i don't think its useless or anything, just more tedious for something as small as one persons silhouette on a completely flat surface.

[@aeisling]

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

[@FranzFartinand]

And the fact that she's 5 inches tall.

[@gnomewarlord8962]

​@@FranzFartinand you say that like you're not bozo

[@Acurites]

Well couldn't the shadow just have its position changed to align with the lighting?

[@aeisling]

@@Acurites it’s about the sun and how the shadows are on her face compared with the lighting of the sun everywhere else. Not the shadow added behind her

[@Acurites]

​@@aeisling ohh I see. Ty for explaining that

[@BlitzNyx]

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)

[@victorgillmore3180]

🎉 Whoa, this guy knows his stuff!

[@Me-vq5yg]

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

[@emanuel3617]

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.

[@jong9379]

If you are an occasional photoshop user, sure. But if you want to regularly do image editing, then its really important you learn these things to do a job quickly.

[@aghaanantyab]

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

[@thunderoflight]

I might not have photoshop on me... but to think I was able to do shadows in the same way with another program in a similar fashion. Using silhouette and a gradient in both light and blur shadow.

[@Bubblegum-xm5cg]

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

[@Asylia5911]

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

[@theninja4137]

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)

[@txo.kei1]

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

[@dazai.s_bandages]

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

[@BingoRBX]

Easier way: duplicate the person, flip vertically, change opacity, control T(on Mac too) perspective warp, change it to put it in the ground :D

[@yyyyyk]

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)

[@BigAl444]

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

[@happyboy6002]

Use 3D feature auto light shadow effect It better

[@theludonarrian]

A shadow doesn't fade as it gets farther away like that.

[@bruv-lz4fh]

Bro. Last time i used photoshop was when i made a counterfeit first ed "card" to get out of those classes

[@Ozymandias664]

You can add a shadow effect too

[@notTakumo]

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

[@just_aweird0]

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

[@_Ghostly4_]

I would stick with the first option

[@bryankeith5012]

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

[@Ed19601]

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

[@68thallabhanusamykya18]

Awesome

[@audreyguo13]

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

[@aprettydumbperson]

It was medium difficulty at most

[@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa790]

The color shouldn't be the same on her body unless it's a cartoon. It should match the color of the dirt.

[@wbvenus]

I don't know any of these But somehow this guy is explaining in way that I had to hear the whole short 😐

[@z-beeblebrox]

*Normal KZbin:* you make a quick tutorial for an art program and the comments are all from people who are frequent users either thanking you for the tip or correcting you cuz they know too damn much *Shorts KZbin:* you make a quick tutorial for an art program and the comments are all "LOL WTF THIS LOOKS HARD I DON'T EVEN OWN THIS PROGRAM LOL"

[@urheim3753]

actually the first stuff was saving lots of Time 😂

[@susanseven7]

Or click on "add shadow". Also... why am I watching this? It's 4 a.m. and my alarm is silently laughing.. menacingly. And oh yeah, I don't have photoshop either

[@OP_JOKER_FF]

why TF did i watch this ? i don't even know what this is . I DON'T HAVE ANY KIND OF RELATION WITH PHOTO EDITING ! I DON'T EVEN HAVE A PC

[@UnloadedTiktokFoto]

I'm watching this like i have a project due tomorrow and i forgot to do it so i need to start learning... Bruh, i'm still in middle school with the minimal responsibility rn😑😮‍💨😐

[@casualcouch9459]

I hate fucking photoshop I just can't do it I almost smashed my keyboard in anger staying up 16hrs doing a college project fuck that shit

[@El1sL1n]

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

[@igxniisan6996]

Why Am I Doing what Matheus Müller did 1 month ago?

[@SleepyAdam]

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

[@Kinetica_tm]

You can do this in a much easier way for way shorter time

[@MaxwellisCuteVr]

Listen I’m not paying 50$😂😂 for that app

[@kiritogreen2471]

You have two choices. 🔴 memorize all that 🔵 do it by hand Choose wisely😎

[@dud_RBX]

*Man that’s crazy* scrolls up *forgets.*

[@sensei4701]

Me casually watching who even don't know how to change the background🍿

[@teslagirl4208]

You can find lot of them. Just write "app for changing the background ", and than you try few of them... Good ones are those that have regulations for the bords (or adges...I don't know how you say that on english), of the immages, intensity, shadow of the bords, and blur... Another things I still have to learn...

[@tr3ycr0w]

What photoshop app is this because I use Adobe Express and it sucks

[@redditstories69e]

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

[@DreamyGraphics]

Wow ! Good tutorial :)

[@12DAMDO]

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

[@monstrous_crow]

The big question, how to bend while warping

[@urfavgenx]

I think I’ll just stick to the lines for now..

[@Lemon55421]

POV:E.T. teacher showing an "easy" codğng system

[@TheHouseOfTrickShots]

Don’t do a simple design do a 5-minute process of just finding the steps

[@patrikmatousek5450]

It's pretty nice but after a few seconds i would be lost in functions 😅

[@Defnot346]

Looks like something from spy kids

[@KashifGamingGalaxy]

Hand Made Shadow Is OK AFTER WATCHING THIS😂

[@zynx_xx]

bro my lazzy ass isn't doing all of that

[@kaloyanhristov4065]

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

[@Dot_1]

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

[@-ValorantProVODs]

Bro I’m late to school and don’t have photoshop. Why am I here?

[@Coffeeser]

Ty for telling us

[@WaterInmyHands]

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

[@-Konig-]

OR YOU JUST DONT DRAW THE SHADOW OR DRAW ANYTHING AT ALL HOW TAT?!

[@northern._.clover]

I think I'll stick to drawing shadows 😅

[@Yukki._.]

I can do that exact thing so much easier on ibis- Lowkey this made it seem so complicated 😂 I could never understand programs like that

[@e-unit1579]

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

[@dewmilk7266]

Oh my god thank you so much my dude

[@SeeJayPlayGames]

Will this work in GIMP too?

[@Wh4tShouldIPutHere]

Don’t do it simple ❌ Do it complex ✅

[@Reyn_the_Insane]

Eyedrop the shadow color from the background, not the subject. Also make sure you color balance your subject!

[@rbm_gps3088]

I AINT DOING ALLAT 💯💯💯🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@ilikepie21234]

But the light source is coming from above so ...???

[@JessicaRosei]

me watching this, already forgot the steps while thinking about using this at school (we have photoshop classes at school starting grade 7)

[@himanshurapconman]

I installed photoshop just to check if this works

[@duggggggg]

Ok but isn't the lightsource of the background behind her? So isn't the shadow going the wrong way?

[@airahxslayyyyy5790]

Kids: 🤯🤯🤯🥳🥳🥳🥳😟😟😟🤧🤧🤧🤧😟😟☹☹☹😭😭😭😭😭😭💀

[@animeshpanwar9366]

On second thought, I will stick with drawing with my hands.

[@BERRYAVE15]

In my opinion do it how u want❤

[@nadine.iilikepencilmationa8482]

Yk what I'ma just stick with the first one

[@Voidmercenary]

Wait... you paid 60$ to microsoft?

[@Labor-thegoofiestone]

Bro's actually doing good shadows

[@Martha-w7w9b]

DID YOU JUST CALL A WOMAN A SUBJECT?? THAT'S IT YOU KNOW WHAT?? YOU KNOW WHA okay I'll stop 💀💀

[@hackberry.emperor]

I'm still gonna paint shadows by hand anyway

[@pineapple6828]

I would have believed the first one

[@Devilcakes]

Yeah but... there should be more of an intense light. She looks too "indoor lighting"

[@AviusL]

I hate that you can't click on the time line i shorts and have to rewatch shorts like this about 40 times trying to follow along if you miss anything when desperately trying to pause in time :/ Normal video tutorials are a million times better!