How to create Shadow in photoshop - Photoshop tutorial.

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Shadow Creation In Photoshop CS6

• By
• Sila Mahmud

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Step 1
Select the photo
Select the photo and click to Elliptical Marquee
Tool
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Step 2 Select the
ball

• Using an Elliptical Marquee Tool, select the
  ball. You can constrain your selection by holding
  down the Shift key on your keyboard (this will
  make your Elliptical Marquee Tool a perfect
  circle).
• You can "cycle through" all the selection tools
  by pressing Shift  M.

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Step 3 Send the
selected objected to a new layer.
After selecting the ball, press Ctrl  J (or do
it the long way by going to Layer gt New gt Layer
via Copy). This will throw anything selected
(ball in this case) up to a new layer.
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Step 4Fill the background with a solid color
which must be white
Press D on your keyboard to take your current
colors to the default white and black values. Now
press Ctrl  Delete. If you were on a Background
layer, it should now be filled with white color,
if it's not, something has gone terribly wrong.
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Step 5
Create a Shadaw
Select the Brush Tool by pressing B (   for
brush). Set the Master Diameter to 100px
and Hardness to 0 (right click your mouse
anywhere inside of your image to get the
following 2nd pop-up). Must be done on a separate
layer!
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Step 6 Stretch Out
Your Newly Created Shadow Horizontally And
Lower The Opacity To 60
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Step 7Create A Second 50 Smaller Shadow In A
New Layer And Transform It Accordingly

• Now select minimum 50px Master Diameter tools of
  of the Brush Tool and in a new layer create a
  second, smaller "shadow". You will leave this one
  at 100 Opacity.

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Step 8 Positioning (A Little Bit Of Theory /
Explanation)
Once you have aligned them (you can select
multiple layers by holding down the Ctrl key,
clicking on the layers you want selected and then
selecting an alignment option from a menu that
looks like this
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Step 9
Saving The Final Image As A Png (Optional)
Click on the "eye" icon right beside your main
Background layer. This will disable (or hide, if
you will) that specific layer. Now press Ctrl
Alt Shift S (aka Save for Web).
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