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How to Make a Long Vector Hard Shadow in Photoshop

Lesson 90 from: Adobe Photoshop Fundamentals

Daniel Walter Scott

How to Make a Long Vector Hard Shadow in Photoshop

Lesson 90 from: Adobe Photoshop Fundamentals

Daniel Walter Scott

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90. How to Make a Long Vector Hard Shadow in Photoshop

Lessons

Class Trailer

Getting Started

1

Class Introduction to Adobe Photoshop CC

02:36
2

Before you Start this Adobe Photoshop CC Tutorial

01:20

Layers

3

How to Use Layers in Adobe Photoshop CC

09:56
4

Basic Navigation & How to Combine Images in Photoshop

07:37
5

Layers - Quiz

Color & Adjustment Layers

6

How to Fix an Image Using Levels in Photoshop CC

04:03
7

How to Enhance Colors in Photoshop Using Vibrance

03:28
8

How to Change the Color of Something in Photoshop Using Hue

02:52
9

How to Change Just One Color in Adobe Photoshop CC

01:57
10

How to Make an Image Black & White in Photoshop CC

04:35
11

How to Add a Gradient to an Image & Text in Photoshop

10:57
12

Color & Adjustment Layers - Quiz

Shapes

13

Creating a Specific Sized Document Adobe Photoshop CC

04:10
14

How to Draw Star Square Circle Shape in Photoshop CC

12:01
15

Stealing Colors & Adobe Color Themes

06:39
16

Shapes - Quiz

Text

17

How to Create Text in Adobe Photoshop CC

08:09
18

How to Warp Text in Adobe Photoshop CC

01:57
19

How to Get Text to Follow a Line or Circle in Photoshop

13:04
20

Text - Quiz

Layer Styles

21

How to Add a Line Around the Outside of Type in Photoshop

08:17
22

How to a Bevel or Emboss to Text in Photoshop CC

02:19
23

How to Add a Drop Shadow to Text in Photoshop CC

03:02
24

Presenting your Photoshop Work for your Portfolio

06:35
25

Project 1 - Creating your own Postcard

04:29

Cropping

26

How to Crop an Image in Adobe Photoshop CC

03:40
27

How to Crop an Image for a Frame in Adobe Photoshop CC

06:11
28

How to Straighten the Horizon Line Using Photoshop CC

01:55

Selections & Masking

29

How to Copy from One Image to Another in Photoshop CC

06:20
30

How to Crop Images Inside of Text

09:35
31

How to Remove the Background in Adobe Photoshop CC

10:11
32

Class Project - Quick Select Tool

00:37
33

How to put Text Behind a Person in Adobe Photoshop CC

07:01
34

How to Create a Layer Mask in Adobe Photoshop CC

04:47
35

Class Project - Cut a Person out & put them into Another Image in Photoshop

08:57
36

How to Blend Fade one Image into Another in Photoshop CC

04:36
37

How to Weave Text in and out of a Photoshop Image

03:18
38

How to Select Hair in Adobe Photoshop CC

16:24
39

Class Project - Selecting Hair

01:21
40

How to Select Things with Straight Edges in Adobe Photoshop CC

03:41
41

How to get Text to Interact with Ink & Plants in Photoshop CC

13:15
42

Class Project - Text & Image Interaction

01:41
43

Selection & Masking - Quiz

Filters

44

How to Add Filters & Effects in Adobe Photoshop

04:14
45

How to Turn an Image into a Painting in Adobe Photoshop

03:12
46

Class Project – Oil Painting

00:31
47

How to Create the Dotted Halftone Poster Effect in Photoshop

06:42
48

Class exercise - Halftone

00:23
49

How to fake Realistic Motion Blur in Adobe Photoshop CC

04:28
50

The Lens Flare Right of Passage in Adobe Photoshop

03:31
51

Filters - Quiz

Smart Objects

52

What is a Smart Object in Adobe Photoshop CC

09:03

Transform & Distort

53

How to Bend a Logo onto an Image Realistically in Photoshop

07:49
54

How to make a Sky Peeling like Fabric Revealing Background in Photoshop

03:13
55

Class Project - Peeling Sky

00:49
56

How to Shrink Body Parts in Adobe Photoshop CC Using Liquify

05:44
57

How to Create Dripping Paint Text Effect in Photoshop CC

09:17
58

Class Project - Drippy Paint Text

00:52

Retouching

59

How to Remove People & Text from a Picture in Photoshop

06:56
60

Use Google Images to find your Image Before Retouching

02:38
61

How to Remove Red Eye from Photographs in Photoshop

00:53
62

How to Retouch Skin in Adobe Photoshop CC

05:22
63

Class Project - Retouching

00:47
64

Enhancing Eyes in Adobe Photoshop CC

06:46
65

How to Fix Teeth in Adobe Photoshop CC

04:33
66

Retouching

Blending Modes

67

How to Instantly Remove the White Background of a Logo in Photoshop

04:15
68

Using Blending Modes as Color Accents in Photoshop

07:10
69

How to put Images Inside a Bottle Using Photoshop

15:14
70

Class Project - Boat in a Bottle

02:15

Visual Styles

71

How to Create the Spotify Duotone Effect in Adobe Photoshop

05:43
72

Class Project - Duotones

00:20
73

How to Create the 3D Glasses Anaglyph Effect in Adobe Photoshop

06:14
74

Class Project - Anaglyph Effect

00:36
75

How to Create a Vintage Instagram Matte Photo in Photoshop

08:40
76

Class Project - Vintage Matte Photo

00:49
77

How to Create the Paper Cut Effect in Adobe Photoshop CC

12:07
78

Class Project - Paper Cut Effect

00:31

Artboards

79

How to Use an Artboard in Adobe Photoshop CC

20:14

Color Modes & Resolution

80

What is the Difference Between RGB and CMYK in Adobe Photoshop CC

07:12
81

How do you Change the Resolution to 300dpi in Photoshop CC

10:38
82

Color Modes & Resulotion - Quiz

Brushes

83

Basic Introduction to Using a Wacom Tablet with Photoshop

12:22
84

How to Create Splatter Paint Effects in Adobe Photoshop CC

08:11
85

77. Class Project - Ink Splats

00:54
86

How to Create Dripping Paint Ink Effect in Photoshop

06:46
87

Class Project - Dripping Paint Brush

00:55
88

How to Create Smoke with an Image Inside it using Photoshop CC

05:50
89

Class Project - Smoke Effect

01:03

Shadows

90

How to Make a Long Vector Hard Shadow in Photoshop

05:26
91

How to Cast a Realistic Shadow on the Ground in Photoshop

07:16
92

Bending or Curved Shadow Under an Image in Photoshop

03:33

Export

93

How to Export Images from Photoshop for Print Web & Social Media

10:18

What Next

94

What Next after your Photoshop Essentials Class

01:15

Final Quiz

95

Final 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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