Photoshop/Paint Shop Shadows Tutorial, Take a Look!

[Rayquaza]

How To Make Shadows!

I decided to do a tutorial about how to do shadows, i hope people will try to use it.
Here it goes!

Step 1:

Make a new layer.

Step 2:

Use the lasso tool

Step 3:

Use it to draw a line under the car, and make sure the line goes against the bottom of the wheels, or a small bit under it, not too much!

Step 4:

Then feather it, about 20.

Step 5:

Fill the selection you now have up with black.
Then Brighten/Contrast as in the picture.

Note: Make sure the layer is under the car's layer!

This Tutorial is Made by Rayquaza. ©2006

I hope this will help some people who arent good at shadows yet.
Dont try just once, you have to try it a lot of times to master the trick of a perfect shadow!

[Sir Ibi]

Maybe some pics, will help understand the steps in the tutorial a little better. For instance, Step 3 is difficult to understand without any pics to help illustrate the process.

[Rayquaza]

good idea.
Im gonna make a pres for my tibby anyway, i can make shots of the process too.

[Stereo]

I like this tut.

[korge]

Realize this is for PSP users only, not Photoshoppers.

[Death Ranger]

pretty much same concept for photoshop realy, just dif names that's all

BTW there's another way wich i prefer using
the car is a layer in itself, right?
so lasso around the lower half of it
enter the blending options (by duble klickind the layer in the layers menu)
select "Drop Shadow"
play around to achive desired effect

[Stereo]

I use this way in Photoshop... It's the same thing.

[Pinecone]

My way is 3 steps, although the contrast isnt necessary unless it blends in with the background.

[Ceska666]

It's realy awesome tut Ray there is another way to do shadows using motion blur

[arabnight]

<.< thats y i use photoshop cs2....alot quicker lol

[boganbusman]

I just use the burn tool

[Rayquaza]

Well thats a lot harder.. , and this way is effective

[boganbusman]

Well thats a lot harder..

No it's not . . .

When I do a photochop or any other car-image enhancements, I'll always cut out the car and paste it into another layer. So then If I burn the layer underneath, it looks perfectly fine and I can control how much shadow is being created.

[Rayquaza]

so can you with this tut, and you can makes perfect lines with it

[xennon119]

Doesnt work:(:(
I click feather but only car gets destroyed!

[Stereo]

Color the shadow on the BACKGROUND layer.

[jacoja06]

I don't use any real trendy way to create shadows (such as the burn tool, etc). All you need is lasso, and just the normal paintbrush tool.

Rayquaza's method is probably much better anyhoo. Nice one

[Rayquaza]

thanks

[devil_gtr]

lol, i use psp8 and when i select da point to point selection tool, i see da feather thingy just rite there, wats so difficult?

any way, i do da same way tho, i used to just airbrush without selecting in sr2 but now i do by seleting the shadow first, and the rest is upto us like ray and me lol i mean the special shadow effects. anyway nice tut........ >.>

[Rayquaza]

I hope it can still help people!

[race_invader]

It helped me improve

[xennon119]

ty for tutorial.