Photoshop Techniques 003

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Adobe Photoshop, on the other hand, is able to create subtle. shadow effects. The following technique will show you how to. build a Photoshop shadow for any …

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Techniques
003
Photoshop
How to
BUILD A SOFT
SHADOW FOR
POSTSCRIPT
ARTWORK.
Most designers are familiar with creating shadows in a drawing
program such as Adobe Illustrator or Macromedia FreeHand.
In those programs, you must build shadows with blended
shapes or graduations. Even the best shadow built this way
often looks computer generated.
Adobe Photoshop, on the other hand, is able to create subtle
shadow effects. The following technique will show you how to
build a Photoshop shadow for any Illustrator or FreeHand
object. You can use this technique to create quick drop
shadows for anything from photo boxes or illustrations to
company logos.
In addition, this technique is an excellent way to begin
integrating the use of Photoshop with other illustration
software. Designers have said that this is one technique they
use repeatedly.
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PHOTOSHOP2 Photoshop Techniques #002
Steps 1A-B
Steps 1C
Step 1D
Building a drop shadow
Step 1
Isolate the objects you want to shadow.
Start in your Illustrator or FreeHand file. First, you will isolate
the parts of your document you want to create a shadow for.
You will copy them into a new document and fill them black.
Save this new, black outline in an Illustrator format so that
you can open it in Photoshop.
A: Select the object(s).
B: Copy them to a new document.
Choose Copy from the Edit menu; create a new document and
choose Paste. You should see a blank document with only the
elements you want to shadow.
C: Fill your objects with black.
Illustrator and FreeHand both have similar approaches to filling
objects. In Illustrator, use the Paint Style palette; In FreeHand,
use the Inspector palette.
Note: Inspect your object. The result should be a black silhouette of
the original shape. You may need to do some editing at this point to
insure that final shape is what you want.
D: Draw a larger rectangle around the objects.
Give your new rectangle a Fill and Stroke of None. (In the…