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★ Tutorial | How to Rock Your Shadows!

That's the one thing I miss about moving to PSE8 from CS2... I loved my warp tool for shadows. Maybe I'll win the lottery and can subscribe to the Adobe CreativeCloud thingie. I'm an old fashioned girl and I just like to have software without the monthly st(r)ing attached to it.
 
lorryfach said:
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.
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I did not know about this possibility... didn't think about it at least. interesting. I've never tried to actually split my shadows, because I haven't found something that was like... "if this shadow isn't moved I can't love my layout!!!" for me. The time it would take to split the shadow to be able to modify it isn't really worth it.... BUT... this second option seems like it would be faster, so I'll have to try to keep that in mind!
 
khakisack said:
Awww, darn! Looks like you can't do it on PSE?!
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lynning said:
That's the one thing I miss about moving to PSE8 from CS2... I loved my warp tool for shadows. Maybe I'll win the lottery and can subscribe to the Adobe CreativeCloud thingie. I'm an old fashioned girl and I just like to have software without the monthly st(r)ing attached to it.
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klee73010 said:
I did not know about this possibility... didn't think about it at least. interesting. I've never tried to actually split my shadows, because I haven't found something that was like... "if this shadow isn't moved I can't love my layout!!!" for me. The time it would take to split the shadow to be able to modify it isn't really worth it.... BUT... this second option seems like it would be faster, so I'll have to try to keep that in mind!
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I have a video tutorial for the steps Lorry mentioned for PSE . . . just thought I would share in case anyone needed it!

 
Thanks! I've always wanted to know how to do this. Didn't know it was so simple :)
 
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