How To Apply Shadow Effect On An Object Background

Shadow Effect 

Shadow effect is a regular and vital work for Graphic sectors. When a image are Captured or created, then they need some necessary change to make the image better than ever. Designer has to go through a few certain processes to perform the editing. 

Natural shadow can enhance the image quality dynamically. In Photoshop Full image shadow is applied by effect of light.

Original Shadow is made by the effect of light that’s why we calling it natural shadow or original shadow.

Now we are going to demonstrate how to create shadow effect on an object.To do so , we need to apply clipping path first.If you miss the previous clipping path article, then click here...  

Step 1:  Go to object layer and press (shift+F6) to edit feather radius 1 and press backspace to adjust object path outline with the background environment.

Step 2:  Copy object layer and hide it first. Then select object copy layer and choose color from image adjustments (hue/Saturation) to apply in background.

Step 3:  Now go to copy object layer again & have to select the path and modify Hue/saturation to decrease lightness effect to 0% for making blackish level color as shadow.

Step 4: Then I need to go to filter option on the Menu bar, change Blur effect % as my shadow demands. Only because my shadow has to look simply natural,I am choosing 3.5 % for Blur radius. 

Step 5 : After applying shadow effect now make the first object layer visible and making move scaling up and down for the perfect shadow placing on the changing background.

Step 6: Then unwanted area of blackish color need to delete it all with eraser tool.

Step 7:  Moreover, if I want to make shadow of the wire then I have to follow the same process to make shadow and keep blur level (1.7).

Step 8:  I can also move the whole shadow of the wire by selecting the shadow area in any angle to look extremely original with the actual background.

Step 9: After my edit is done & final image is ready, I can save JPEG file for image version or PSD file to store all the layer records of my work.

Now you can easily do some edit on your image with applying shadow effect to create a more realistic image.It will increase your edit capability to represent a qualitative image background.

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