how to create realistic shadow for furniture?

[scooti]

Hellou,
I need some help with my retouching of product photos.
I have some furnitures photos and I need white background and realistic shadow, but I dont know how to create it in photoshop. Real shadow is no good and I need to replace it.



Thanks for every reply

 

[Paul]

For the above styled shadow you will need the pen tool to draw in the lines of shadow where you want them to fall then stroke the paths with a brush set to 20% or so, then lower opacity until your happy, i then usually smudge the shadow effect with the smudge tool.
Or you could recreate the table on a new layer alter threshold to full black place behind original layer of table move out of line slightly and lower opacity until happy, two ways there are others.

 

[scooti]

this is my test, but I thing its not looking very realistic

 

[Dataflow]

you say the real shadows arent good
what do you want them to look like? (example)

 

[scooti]

real shadows are no good, because they have bad direction and orientation. I want shadow directly under table. I have a lot of photos and there was no good lighning setups, shadows go to tha wall, on the floor are some lines. I thing that is better to completely remove background and than on the clean white draw the shadow, but I dont know how to do it

 

[Paul]

Just lengthen your shadows mate, they look cool, maybe drop the opacity slightly to.

 

[dv8_fx]

Use Paul's suggestion of using the Pentool to create the shadows.

Since you plan to remove the background a nd start with a clean white, your shadow will depend on your imaginary light source.

On a new layer below the furniture layer , create the shadow object in the position you want it and fill the selection black, add gaussian blur to blur the edges the way you want it, and lower the layer opacity to suit your liking.