★ Tutorial | How to Rock Your Shadows!

I love that trick, but don't use it often enough!

 

always fun to curl those photo/edge shadows!

 

great technique and fast too.

 

Will have to try this. Nice and easy to understand.

 

This is how I shadow also. It makes a page much more dimensional.

 

Thanks so much for this tutorial. I've used it on my most recent project life page

 

super cool...I just learned a new trick....thank you!

 

I made an action that puts the shadow on a separate layer and calls up the warp tool. So you just have whatever layer selected, hit the action, and start pulling corners. Super fast and easy. I shared it on my member spotlight.

 

I use this technique too

 

Lorry that's awesome... thank you!

 

Great tutorial! Thanks for sharing!

 

Thanks Lorry!!!

 

It doesn't work for PSE. There are some workarounds though.

 

Great tutorial!

 

Awww, darn! Looks like you can't do it on PSE?!

 

I do this too! Love it!

 

There are workarounds, but it's not built in.

One option is to apply the shadow you want, go into the FX and drag the Distance slider so the shadow is completely separated from the element, Simplify the layer, drag a selection box around the shadow, and cut. Now you have a shadow on its on layer to paste back in and modify however you want. IIRC, there is no "Warp" in PSE but you can still do some distortions on it that look good.

The other option is to make the shadow 'from scratch' yourself. Duplicate the element, make it solid black (or dark brown or whatever color you make your shadows), change the blend mode to linear burn, manually offset it however many pixels, apply a Gaussian blur, and lower the opacity until it looks good.

 

I have a video on @Danyale's blog on how to do the first option of pulling the FX away. If you need a visual help.