300 Blending a shadow into any background

…Hey gang, this is Deke McClelland.…Welcome to Deke's Techniques.…Now, this week, I'm going to show you how to take an object that's casting…a shadow, and preserve its shadow from…one background to another to yet still another.…Now we've discussed how to preserve shadows in the past, but the…great thing about this technique is it's specifically geared toward these kinds…of stock photo shots where you have an object set against a…white background, whether it's a photograph,…or in this case a 3D rendering.…

Here, let me show you exactly how it works.…Now once again we have this volleyball with its natural shadow.…Now this happens to be a 3D rendering from the Fotolia Image…Library about which you can learn more and get special deals at fotolia.com/deke.…But it could just as easily be a standard photograph against a white background.…And we've gotta make this image look at home against any…background, really, I've got a total of 3 ready and waiting here.…We've got this deck, and these tiled bricks, and also this beach.…