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Adding shadows and effects to the environment

Adding shadows and effects to the environment - Photoshop Tutorial

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Adding shadows and effects to the environment

- [Voiceover] One thing I know I want to add to this background just a little bit to show off the different pieces of all these metal plates and what not is just a little shadow layer. Just this simple, maybe 21% opacity... black layer. Go back to a normal kind of brush. And I use rough inking brush. It's the same deal as what we did on our character here. We're just going to add just a little bit of shadow under some of these plates of metal that you think you'd like to show are a little higher than other things. I know that I want to do that on the grate here. This adds a little bit of three-dimensionality really quickly. We're not going for a full-on painting here with these backgrounds. A lot of artists could paint me under the bus. I'm just trying to do a simple kind of animation style quick background. Again, I'm thinking about the light source coming from the top. So a lot of these shadows I'm adding are underneath. On the underside of these panels. We can use this time also to…

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