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Tip #46 - Generating Projected Shadows...
- We're hot on the trail of "soft" drop shadows
- behind other elements (following Tip #45)...
- Softening the blow...
While we're on the topic of shadows, let's have some fun. Take
your blur layer and duplicate it again. Turn this layer off by
clicking on the "eye" icon. This saves your image in case I mess it
up for you!
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Now, on the visible shadow layer, Select All (Command/A)
and go to the Effects Menu and select "Skew" Now you can "pull"
those handles around until the shadow is projected down on the
surface.
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Go take a look at our Guest Book page and that's exactly
how I did the shadow. (Hit the "back" button of your browser to return
here!)
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- Now... here's another secret...
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once you have your shadow projected down on the surface, create
another duplicate layer. Then hide one to keep it safe.
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In your visible layer copy of the shadow, Select All then apply a
bit of Motion Blur to it. What??? Yup... you got it. You see, the
portion of the shadow that is most distant from the original object
that casts the shadow should be more out of focus!
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By applying the
motion blur it fuzzes it up a bit more. BE CAREFUL. Use little
amounts to see how you like it. Keep the angel (direction of the
motion) going in the direction of the shadow. Now, make the original
skewed shadow visible again, and with the Eraser begin removing bits
of the motion closest to the type to begin bringing it back into
focus! Hey. People will think you're a pro! Keep reading...
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Here's yet another one that very, very few know about. Not even those ivory
tower book writers, and the so-called DTP experts we see in
magazines and those trendy books. Not even the people who write the
software. This one's reserved for you guys only...
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