🔥 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! 📣🔥

[@JaredGauthier]

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.

[@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.

[@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:

[@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.

[@squiddog9682]

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

[@executedcode4280]

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

[@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.

[@aghaanantyab]

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

[@user-bm6cr5tm5s]

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 😅

[@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.

[@victorgillmore3180]

🎉 Whoa, this guy knows his stuff!

[@bryankeith5012]

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

[@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 😂

[@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

[@WaterInmyHands]

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

[@just_aweird0]

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

[@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

[@BlackHaunter666]

@@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.

[@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)

[@txo.kei1]

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

[@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.

[@Labor-thegoofiestone]

Bro's actually doing good shadows

[@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)

[@BigAl444]

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

[@e-unit1579]

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

[@fatalexception3845]

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

[@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

[@ryankane4984]

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)

[@RobertLoyale]

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

[@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)

[@happyboy6002]

Use 3D feature auto light shadow effect It better

[@user-pugs4ever]

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

[@gddemon6654]

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

[@68thallabhanusamykya18]

Awesome

[@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

[@alguien6649]

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

[@this-nerd]

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

[@KrizzOnline]

1. Drop shadow 2.done

[@mista_odie]

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 👍👍

[@phoenix3754]

Only problem is that its broad daylight with harsh sun. So the shadow is going to be roughly the same darkness throughout.

[@xavierjones6048]

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

[@Bubblegum-xm5cg]

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

[@audreyguo13]

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

[@aprettydumbperson]

It was medium difficulty at most

[@rdg665]

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

[@PhotoshopTrainingChannel]

Copying the subject would also copy the rest of the image and Layer Mask. You would then have to either, apply the mask, or keep both and unnecessarily bloating the file size.

[@raeryuko]

Consistantly making layet masks helps in the long run Say you're making a big project and when you're already so far in you realized you cropped it wrong or whatever, instead of meticulously redoing your selection you can easily make adjustments to the layer mask And there's also tons of other applications for the technique aswell

[@rdg665]

@Photoshop Training Channel You can pick the selection of the subject witha click and copy bruh

[@rdg665]

@Rae Ryuko Actually i see it as making masks for every unnecessary thing like this is just cluttering your file.

[@El1sL1n]

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

[@jellyenkh-erdenecamman1819]

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

[@SebAnt]

This is WONDERFUL!!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@m00nb3am9]

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

[@jakedempsey7073]

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

[@Sterben-xb5nt]

Wow thanks thats actually ^^ really helpful

[@kaloyanhristov4065]

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

[@DirtstainBeats]

this was super helpful and quick holy shit

[@ibcheel9021]

This is so helpful for my brain!

[@FrenchTopHat]

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

[@pxog]

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

[@PhaserFelix]

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

[@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.

[@Kol0ssal.]

This video taught me more then my teachers combined teaches

[@Lucky_Pumpkin]

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.

[@Ottobot4264]

Thanks, my class uses photoshop so this really helps 😊

[@KiraAsakura14]

warded. This will make a fine addition to my collection

[@furiousgamingwithkittens1224]

thats cool its a good tip

[@NeoGoof]

It looks as good as doing it by hand

[@mnbvc56789]

thank you this was so helpful

[@beargreen1]

Nice shadow tip

[@OtakuClan7]

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

[@curtisjones9372]

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

[@Luke-mo3qo]

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

[@stormycraft3052]

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

[@nickraph67]

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

[@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

[@Aurora_Animates]

Cooooll , I’ll forget this tomorrow but cooolll

[@aidandressel6884]

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

[@ThatSpadeGirl]

Thank you!

[@kalyndahaaf]

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

[@martaswatek4157]

Thx for advice!

[@htetmyattun9426]

Short yet very informative.

[@dazai.s_bandages]

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

[@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)

[@DreamyGraphics]

Wow ! Good tutorial :)

[@oncezek]

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

[@Dot_1]

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

[@YoloSim]

Woow soo easy for begginers soo easy

[@noskillnochill]

excellent tutorial, thank you

[@wedetarway7891]

Thx it really helped😊

[@wbvenus]

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

[@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...

[@_exolite]

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

[@21stcentury55]

This was more help full than my real photo shop class where doing gmetrix

[@Ashtonima]

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

[@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😑😮‍💨😐

[@buzztional]

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

[@bananabutt9628]

This is essentially what Artists do with shadows

[@user-fv3fh8ir7x]

I, someone who has used photoshop exactly 3 times in 7th grade for a computer science class and has absolutely no plans of doing graphic design or anything to do with computers, have an overwhelming urge to save this in case I need to photoshop a shadow