PSCC: Do you use a Knockout Shadow?

I'm not sure I know what that is.

 

I have played with it very little so I'm not sure I'm much help or have done anything differently than you have, but here's what I've done...

Under blending options, advanced blending, change the opacity of the shape to 0%
In the knockout options, change it to shallow
Then add an inner shadow to get the cut-out effect

 

After I wrestled with this for ages, I downloaded some cutout shadows from One Little Bird. Solved the problem for me!

 

I took your challenge Courtney and found this:
https://blog.photoshopcreative.co.uk/blog/tutorials/how-to-use-knockout-blending-in-photoshop/

This is also EXACTLY as @IntenseMagic Jan said, only below I have shown with pictures

Personally I like the inner shadow better, but this works... more realistic. I add an inner shadow too on the knock out and I like it!







(oops this should be step 6!)




Hope that works for you @bestcee !

 

@bestcee the key on this is that the bottom layer that you want showing through has got to be a background layer. It needs to say it in the layer pallet, and has to be a locked layer, if not the hole goes through anything/everything underneath.

 

@cfile Thanks for adding the pictures! I think that's the same tutorial I used when I was playing around with it before and I really should try it more often.

I need to check these out!

 

Here you go: http://onelittlebirddesigns.com/2013/01/powerful-techniques-inner-shadow-cut-outs/

 

Awesome! Thanks so much!

 

Yes I have used them and and also learned from her site years ago... I have always used the inner shadow.. today doing the example for Courtney @bestcee based on the info with Jan @IntenseMagic is the first time I tried out this Knock out shadow! Thanks Meredith for posting/sharing OLB's blog freebie and technique

 

ps with the knock out shadow I like that you can grab your shape and reposition it all around

 

@cfile Shadowing can be so complex, I had no idea how many variations and permutations there were when I first started digi scrapping.

 

oh and here is a comparison... really no difference.

 

I agree Meredith!

 

@bestcee @IntenseMagic @Meredith78 really no difference!

 

IDK what a knockout shadow is, but I opened this thread cuz I'm always eager to learn more about PS. Thanks, Courtney, for asking this and opening my eyes to "knockout" and for everyone's input! I'm hoping to scrap today and I think I'm gonna play around with this a bit.

 

let me know Sara if I can help further!