How to Make a Long Vector Hard Shadow in Photoshop
Daniel Walter Scott
Lesson Info
90. How to Make a Long Vector Hard Shadow in Photoshop
Lessons
Class Introduction to Adobe Photoshop CC
02:36 2Before you Start this Adobe Photoshop CC Tutorial
01:20 3How to Use Layers in Adobe Photoshop CC
09:56 4Basic Navigation & How to Combine Images in Photoshop
07:37 5Layers - Quiz
How to Fix an Image Using Levels in Photoshop CC
04:03 7How to Enhance Colors in Photoshop Using Vibrance
03:28 8How to Change the Color of Something in Photoshop Using Hue
02:52 9How to Change Just One Color in Adobe Photoshop CC
01:57 10How to Make an Image Black & White in Photoshop CC
04:35 11How to Add a Gradient to an Image & Text in Photoshop
10:57 12Color & Adjustment Layers - Quiz
13Creating a Specific Sized Document Adobe Photoshop CC
04:10 14How to Draw Star Square Circle Shape in Photoshop CC
12:01 15Stealing Colors & Adobe Color Themes
06:39 16Shapes - Quiz
17How to Create Text in Adobe Photoshop CC
08:09 18How to Warp Text in Adobe Photoshop CC
01:57 19How to Get Text to Follow a Line or Circle in Photoshop
13:04 20Text - Quiz
21How to Add a Line Around the Outside of Type in Photoshop
08:17 22How to a Bevel or Emboss to Text in Photoshop CC
02:19 23How to Add a Drop Shadow to Text in Photoshop CC
03:02 24Presenting your Photoshop Work for your Portfolio
06:35 25Project 1 - Creating your own Postcard
04:29 26How to Crop an Image in Adobe Photoshop CC
03:40 27How to Crop an Image for a Frame in Adobe Photoshop CC
06:11 28How to Straighten the Horizon Line Using Photoshop CC
01:55 29How to Copy from One Image to Another in Photoshop CC
06:20 30How to Crop Images Inside of Text
09:35 31How to Remove the Background in Adobe Photoshop CC
10:11 32Class Project - Quick Select Tool
00:37 33How to put Text Behind a Person in Adobe Photoshop CC
07:01 34How to Create a Layer Mask in Adobe Photoshop CC
04:47 35Class Project - Cut a Person out & put them into Another Image in Photoshop
08:57 36How to Blend Fade one Image into Another in Photoshop CC
04:36 37How to Weave Text in and out of a Photoshop Image
03:18 38How to Select Hair in Adobe Photoshop CC
16:24 39Class Project - Selecting Hair
01:21 40How to Select Things with Straight Edges in Adobe Photoshop CC
03:41 41How to get Text to Interact with Ink & Plants in Photoshop CC
13:15 42Class Project - Text & Image Interaction
01:41 43Selection & Masking - Quiz
44How to Add Filters & Effects in Adobe Photoshop
04:14 45How to Turn an Image into a Painting in Adobe Photoshop
03:12 46Class Project – Oil Painting
00:31 47How to Create the Dotted Halftone Poster Effect in Photoshop
06:42 48Class exercise - Halftone
00:23 49How to fake Realistic Motion Blur in Adobe Photoshop CC
04:28 50The Lens Flare Right of Passage in Adobe Photoshop
03:31 51Filters - Quiz
52What is a Smart Object in Adobe Photoshop CC
09:03 53How to Bend a Logo onto an Image Realistically in Photoshop
07:49 54How to make a Sky Peeling like Fabric Revealing Background in Photoshop
03:13 55Class Project - Peeling Sky
00:49 56How to Shrink Body Parts in Adobe Photoshop CC Using Liquify
05:44 57How to Create Dripping Paint Text Effect in Photoshop CC
09:17 58Class Project - Drippy Paint Text
00:52 59How to Remove People & Text from a Picture in Photoshop
06:56 60Use Google Images to find your Image Before Retouching
02:38 61How to Remove Red Eye from Photographs in Photoshop
00:53 62How to Retouch Skin in Adobe Photoshop CC
05:22 63Class Project - Retouching
00:47 64Enhancing Eyes in Adobe Photoshop CC
06:46 65How to Fix Teeth in Adobe Photoshop CC
04:33 66Retouching
67How to Instantly Remove the White Background of a Logo in Photoshop
04:15 68Using Blending Modes as Color Accents in Photoshop
07:10 69How to put Images Inside a Bottle Using Photoshop
15:14 70Class Project - Boat in a Bottle
02:15 71How to Create the Spotify Duotone Effect in Adobe Photoshop
05:43 72Class Project - Duotones
00:20 73How to Create the 3D Glasses Anaglyph Effect in Adobe Photoshop
06:14 74Class Project - Anaglyph Effect
00:36 75How to Create a Vintage Instagram Matte Photo in Photoshop
08:40 76Class Project - Vintage Matte Photo
00:49 77How to Create the Paper Cut Effect in Adobe Photoshop CC
12:07 78Class Project - Paper Cut Effect
00:31 79How to Use an Artboard in Adobe Photoshop CC
20:14 80What is the Difference Between RGB and CMYK in Adobe Photoshop CC
07:12 81How do you Change the Resolution to 300dpi in Photoshop CC
10:38 82Color Modes & Resulotion - Quiz
83Basic Introduction to Using a Wacom Tablet with Photoshop
12:22 84How to Create Splatter Paint Effects in Adobe Photoshop CC
08:11 8577. Class Project - Ink Splats
00:54 86How to Create Dripping Paint Ink Effect in Photoshop
06:46 87Class Project - Dripping Paint Brush
00:55 88How to Create Smoke with an Image Inside it using Photoshop CC
05:50 89Class Project - Smoke Effect
01:03 90How to Make a Long Vector Hard Shadow in Photoshop
05:26 91How to Cast a Realistic Shadow on the Ground in Photoshop
07:16 92Bending or Curved Shadow Under an Image in Photoshop
03:33 93How to Export Images from Photoshop for Print Web & Social Media
10:18 94What Next after your Photoshop Essentials Class
01:15 95Final Quiz
Lesson Info
How to Make a Long Vector Hard Shadow in Photoshop
Hi there this video. We're going to create the cast kind of long shadow that we see very popular in ui design at the moment, google used it for a long time. Normally this is where I say it's super easy but it's not it's super manual labor. I'll show you why now. All right to get started. We're going to use just a new document filing. You we're gonna make this one smallish. We're going to make it By 1000 pixels and we're going to click create. I'm going to pick a background color just from my swatches up here. You can mix any color you like. So I picked it and I'm going to go to edit and I'm going to go to Phil and because I've got my background layer and I've got foreground color selected. Let's click OK. Alright. So we're gonna bring in some we've used it earlier on. We're gonna go file place embedded because it's victor stuff from illustrator. Anything from illustrator. Use the file place embedded, retains all its coordinates and math and vector nous. You can just open it and copy a...
nd paste it. But that's not true. Smart object goodness. So in your exercise files, there's one in here called 15 Shadows. Open that up and we're gonna use shoe the ai that's adobe illustrator. You can do with anything we're going to do it with this image and then click OK. You can do with anything like it doesn't have to be issue, it can be text. Okay. I struck it down a little bit and hits return my little higher there. So first up we need to select the shoe, we're gonna use our quick selection tool and I'm just gonna kind of drag a body. I'm just gonna drag around grab all this stuff. You could select the background and invert it. That would be faster. But there we go. It's a nice easy selection because it is such a clean and crisp image. Now it's time for the confession. Okay now I can't find or think of a better way than doing this. This is a little bit manual labor a little bit if though you're watching this and you're like, hey why doesn't he just do it this way? I'd love to know I can't find it. I can't figure it out this way it works. It's fine. But it's just there's a little bit of mashing of keys which is fine. So we're going to create a new layer. We're gonna call it shadow shadow. And I'm gonna fill it with black. So I'm gonna go to edit. Let's fill it with black. Full contents. I'm gonna pick black click OK? And I'm going to go to select de select. Okay, so this is the phase one. I'm gonna put it just underneath my shoe and I'm going to now start the button mashing. So on a pc hold down your key on your keyboard. If you're on a Mac look down and grab your option key and just make sure you're on the move tool it won't work otherwise. So are you ready for keyboard mashing down arrow, right arrow down A writer and a writer. You can start to see it's coming out like a drop shadow. What it's really doing is it's actually just duplicating the layer that we had selected every time because we're holding down that special key which is option on the Mac on a pc. Don't worry, we're gonna have like one billion layers when we're finished so keep holding the key down, I can't remember what was the last thing I did, was it down or across? Probably across. So down across down across down across, down across, down across, down across. Yes, you're gonna go mad. So what I'll do is I'll get us to speed it up and I'm going to go down across down across down across loads of times. Ready go alright, I'm back then I got bored of that, I'm gonna show you a little trick to speed it up. Okay? Um so what I'm gonna do is I'm going to select this top one, I'm going to scroll all the way down to the bottom to my first shadow. There he is there, hold shift and click this last one and then I'm going to write like any of them and say merge these layers please. So now there are at least one chunk so now what I can do is I can duplicate it, I'm not worried about the layer. Names, I got two of them and I can drag it out and kind of use my arrow keys to tap it into position. So I'm I'm kind of cheating if you know I'm double down doubling down. Cool. So I'm gonna select both of these. Now merge layers. Same thing again, I'm gonna duplicate and use them a little shortcut, drag it down to my little turned up page and then get my arrow keys and line it up. I probably just need I need a couple more so I'm starting to use shortcuts now. Okay, the shortcut to merge layers is I will tell you in a second got lined up. It's like both of them. It is command E on a Mac control E on a Pc Should be the last one duplicated. You're like, this is painful. Then there's gonna be a better way. I wish there probably is. I'm just I just can't work it out and I can't find anybody else that knows you could be my savior and I could rerecord this video. Okay, so now join them all up. I got this long shadow. I'm just gonna lower the opacity of it down to look more like that kind of victor stretched out logo. You know like why didn't I just draw lines off it and fill it with the pen tool. I guess pencils bit out of the scope of this intro course, but if you are a pen tool master, you can do it. The only trouble with it is when you have like internal compound shapes, it's hard to know what to do there. I find this technique just works good every time for that kind of long cast, google shadow. Right That is it for downing and writing one zillion times. Ah sorry for that. Let's get on to the next video where there's less manual labor.
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