From the course: Photoshop: Texturing and Shading Techniques
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Main light source and refined shadows - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop: Texturing and Shading Techniques
Main light source and refined shadows
- [Instructor] Now that our forms are creating the look we need, let's create a more believable shadow that has a stronger emphasis on a main light source. So the first thing we want to do is create a new layer at the top of our layer stack that will be our shadow layers for our main light source. And in order to do that, we need to find our original blank for the boy and the castle. So if I go to my Flags drop down, I've got my flat flag here at the right bottom, if I hit Control and click on the thumbnail, I have that selection in place. I am going to go up to the very top of the stack, hit the New Layer button, and I'm going to try to find kind of a dark blue, because we have a lot of warm colors in our scene, so a nice cool shadow will actually make these objects look really good. So, let's go ahead and hit Alt backspace, which will fill in that whole layer with just the silhouette of our castle, and then we're going to set that to multiply. So let's go ahead and find the…
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