Hi there, this video is all about bendy shadows. Can you see underneath the image here? I'm turning it on and off. It's this kind of bent paper look. The actual image itself is actually perfectly square. It's just this shadow that you bend. It's a neat little trick you can do when you're presenting your work or uploading it to say a web gallery to kind of give it a bit of depth learning to take us a couple of minutes. Let's learn how to do it now in Photoshop. All right, to put the bendy shadow underneath, Let's go to file, open and in your exercise files under shadows. There's one called curved shadow dot jpeg. So open that one up now. This is just a flat and JP or something we made earlier in the course. And basically we have all the tools and techniques already for this one to work. We just need to combine them in a special way. First thing we need to do is we need to generate a little bit more of a white background. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna grab our crop tool, is this ...

one here? Fifth tool down. It's gonna make sure content wears off because I don't want to actually extend the background. I want a bit of a white background. What we can do in the top, right? Just click hold and drag, click hold and drag down the bottom left here. Just give myself a little bit of extra space, drag it so it's in the middle ish. Hit return on my keyboard. Now. What I'd like to do is I'd like to fill the background with white so I'm gonna make a new layer and put it at the bottom. I should call it background. I'm not gonna lie to you. I wouldn't but you should I'm gonna go to edit. I'm gonna go to fill and I'm going to say fill with white click. Ok? It's got a white background now. So with layer zero selected, I'm going to add my job shadow. So just like we did in the previous tutorial, there's only a slight change in this one. So I've got a drop shadow. It depends on how much of a bendy shadow. Okay. The one thing that you might do to save yourself some time is get the angle to be straight up and down so it's at 90. It's really hard to drag to 90 if you hold down shift while you're dragging it though, it does lock it into like five degree increments. We'll just type it in. That's heaps easier. I'm happy with mine at 31 and 24. That was just what was left over from the last tutorial. You can miss her bout with yours. Let's click OK. The magic happens here. You can right click the drop shadow and say create layer morning. You'll click that don't show again. I'm a trainer so I need to keep those stuff on. It's annoying but it needs to be there every time I teach somebody that's new and it's only annoying for me with the layer selected, the drop shadow selected. Make sure you got this one selected is instead of going to edit transform, we use distort, we're going to use warp. Remember what's more like fabric distorts more like playing with angles, warps more like turning it into fabric. And what we're going to do is these two little dots here are going to control the bend. Okay, so I'm kind of showing you what they do. I'm going to undo that. I want them back to the bottom and I'm just gonna drag this one up to about there. And the same with this one. It really depends on how much of a bend you want at the bottom. So I want mine just a little bit more. It will depend on where you started with the drop shadow as well. And when you're finished, click return on your keyboard and there's that kind of like makes the image look like it's sitting on the ground. It looks like it's a little bit more bent. You might lower the opacity of this layer here just to kind of knock it back a little bit, depending on what you want. I'm happy with it. It's a cool effect and it's really quite nice when you're uploading these things to say a web gallery and you want to kind of make your images stand out when you're presenting them. We'll do a full section, like a full category on presenting work in the advanced Photoshop course we want to go into like full mock ups. Will do that in the advanced one, but for now it is bendy Shadows. I love it. All right, I will see you in the next video.

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Bending or Curved Shadow Under an Image in Photoshop

Bending or Curved Shadow Under an Image in Photoshop

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92. Bending or Curved Shadow Under an Image in Photoshop

Lessons

Class Introduction to Adobe Photoshop CC

Before you Start this Adobe Photoshop CC Tutorial

How to Use Layers in Adobe Photoshop CC

Basic Navigation & How to Combine Images in Photoshop

Layers - Quiz

How to Fix an Image Using Levels in Photoshop CC

How to Enhance Colors in Photoshop Using Vibrance

How to Change the Color of Something in Photoshop Using Hue

How to Change Just One Color in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Make an Image Black & White in Photoshop CC

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

Color & Adjustment Layers - Quiz

Creating a Specific Sized Document Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Draw Star Square Circle Shape in Photoshop CC

Stealing Colors & Adobe Color Themes

Shapes - Quiz

How to Create Text in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Warp Text in Adobe Photoshop CC

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

Text - Quiz

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

How to a Bevel or Emboss to Text in Photoshop CC

How to Add a Drop Shadow to Text in Photoshop CC

Presenting your Photoshop Work for your Portfolio

Project 1 - Creating your own Postcard

How to Crop an Image in Adobe Photoshop CC

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

How to Straighten the Horizon Line Using Photoshop CC

How to Copy from One Image to Another in Photoshop CC

How to Crop Images Inside of Text

How to Remove the Background in Adobe Photoshop CC

Class Project - Quick Select Tool

How to put Text Behind a Person in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Create a Layer Mask in Adobe Photoshop CC

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

How to Blend Fade one Image into Another in Photoshop CC

How to Weave Text in and out of a Photoshop Image

How to Select Hair in Adobe Photoshop CC

Class Project - Selecting Hair

How to Select Things with Straight Edges in Adobe Photoshop CC

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

Class Project - Text & Image Interaction

Selection & Masking - Quiz

How to Add Filters & Effects in Adobe Photoshop

How to Turn an Image into a Painting in Adobe Photoshop

Class Project – Oil Painting

How to Create the Dotted Halftone Poster Effect in Photoshop

Class exercise - Halftone

How to fake Realistic Motion Blur in Adobe Photoshop CC

The Lens Flare Right of Passage in Adobe Photoshop

Filters - Quiz

What is a Smart Object in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Bend a Logo onto an Image Realistically in Photoshop

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

Class Project - Peeling Sky

How to Shrink Body Parts in Adobe Photoshop CC Using Liquify

How to Create Dripping Paint Text Effect in Photoshop CC

Class Project - Drippy Paint Text

How to Remove People & Text from a Picture in Photoshop

Use Google Images to find your Image Before Retouching

How to Remove Red Eye from Photographs in Photoshop

How to Retouch Skin in Adobe Photoshop CC

Class Project - Retouching

Enhancing Eyes in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Fix Teeth in Adobe Photoshop CC

Retouching

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

Using Blending Modes as Color Accents in Photoshop

How to put Images Inside a Bottle Using Photoshop

Class Project - Boat in a Bottle

How to Create the Spotify Duotone Effect in Adobe Photoshop

Class Project - Duotones

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

Class Project - Anaglyph Effect