★ Tutorial | How to Rock Your Shadows!

[ForeverJoy]

Don't you love when CT share there tips and bag of tricks? On the ForeverJoy blog today, Monica shares a great tutorial on how she gets a curled effect on her layout shadows
You can read her secrets *here*

 

[SirScrapalot]

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

 

[jenn mccabe]

always fun to curl those photo/edge shadows!

 

[Lindzee]

great technique and fast too.

 

[Amson]

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

 

[bcgal00]

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

 

[ForeverJoy]

I think shadows can add SO much to a page- and actually find it relaxing to play with them once my page is done... its like fluffing pillows LOL!

 

[Amson]

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

 

[thimbleberrie]

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

 

[lorryfach]

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.

 

[Gaelle]

I use this technique too

 

[mollyscraps]

Lorry that's awesome... thank you!

 

[KellyM]

Great tutorial! Thanks for sharing!

 

[KellyM]

Thanks Lorry!!!

 

[dvhoward]

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

 

[ChristineElizabeth]

Great tutorial!

 

[khakisack]

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

 

[Brandi]

I do this too! Love it!

 

[lorryfach]

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

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.

 

[bestcee]

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.