Chess

[Paul]

I made a mix of dino/camel and a chess set, hope you like it?

 

[SeniorS]

Nice Camelozavr

Only shadow's diferent color (from other's shadow) drop in eyes.

 

[Paul]

Yeah i have trouble with shads lol.

 

[Hoogle]

easiest way to do shadows is duplicate the image you want a shadow of onto a new layer slide the levels to completely make it black use transform controls to position it where you want and then lower the opacity of the level until it matches the other shadows in the picture

 

[Eddie Cook]

Love the picture.

And thanks for the tip hoogle. I hope I remember that next time I wrestle a shadow.

 

[Hoogle]

Oh and forgot to add that if you want a soft edge shadow add gaussian blur to it

 

[Paul]

I did all that H but i still get a crappy shadow lol.

 

[Hoogle]

when you say crappy do you mean shape or just the colouring you could try setting the blending mode to multiply or warp it a bit slide the opacity of the layer down along with the fill level upload your psd and I will have a look and see what suits it best in my opinion if you like

 

[Paul]

H you should know me by now, i very rarely keep psd file types, and i do all what you have just said - but they always come out looking like a grayish painted splodge rather than a shadow?

 

[Hoogle]

actually I think it is the surface your doing it on because it is shiny it is having funky effects on the shadow when you adjust the opacity

 

[Paul]

Yeah i did think of trying to do a layer with a dull square on it where the shadow was going to be then put the shadow on top of that with a new layer, if you know what i mean lol.

 

[Hoogle]

Ok I dont think you will ever get a good result on this image

all though your shadow is still underneath all I did was duplicate the camel dino thing flipped vertical then lowered the opacity of the layer and reduced exposure so it was not fully black then applied a small amount of blur and a layer mask to fade it out slightly

 

[SeniorS]

My try :



Not perfect too. If i have to make shadow and there it should look like other shadow i try to take color from them and then play with blendings modes, opacity, bluring etc.
This one 2 layers with "brown" colors, one overlay 75% (closest to leg more red) one normal 75%. And gradient to both.

 

[Toney Park]

Great idea and cute dinosaur

 

[agentmoeller]

Senior, this shadow looks really good.

I was wondering if there's a filter or some other effect that could mimick that ripple texture that the real shadows have from the chessboard surface. I was thinking of a distort function, but I think the one I'm thinking of is in Illustrator, not Ps.

 

[SeniorS]

You can try render some Fibers in PS and you it to displace.

 

[agentmoeller]

You can try render some Fibers in PS and you it to displace.

I bet that would work!!!