I have been using photoshop for well over 10 years and doing a lot of compositing but never could work with shadows very well unless the shadow was on a white background. Im so glad I tuned into this tutorial to get a great way to add a shadow to a composited image. Thank you for sharing your skills!
Has to be the best PS tutorial content creator out there. Just the way it is explained is so easy to understand. Not beginner but not too advanced. Great Video!
super skills and talent at its best. ive been watching you and unmesh for a very long time and because of you guys i have enhanced my knowledge in Ps. thank you and more power.
I am glad I discovered this channel, thank you for this tutorial, I am a newbie in PS, so I am constantly having problems, especially with my tools not working correctly or at all sometimes and I don't know why.
Excelent tutorial Mr. Jesus Ramirez, you gave a great step by step ass well as many things to take into consideration! I must say that after making mistakes the minute you hear an expert like yourself give a tip one knows why you are giving the tip. In the past I have done what you showed us in this video and later as I looked back at the images I immediatly noticed that the background needed noise in order to look believable. Thanks for this fantastic channel and for all the great information you share with us all here, much health and success to you Sir!
Great Video thank you so much I learned a great deal :) One thing I have trouble when using gradients is banding. I can't tell from this video if the banding was present or not as the compression of the video affects the image. Have you any tips for getting rid of banding in gradients please :)
Another question, Jesús: When you went to soften the shadow edge (~9:45), why did you use a Brush rather than the Feather slider in the Properties panel for that Layer Mask? Does the soft brush give you more control over where to apply the feathering? Thanx!
Thank you for another amazing tutorial, Jesús! Question: How does Linking Layers (~11:24) differ from Grouping them? Why/when use one as opposed to the other? Thanx again!
Grouping (by default) is used purely for organization. Linking layers allows you to keep multiple layers together without having them in the same group. In other words, you can have multiple layers linked that belong to different groups. When you move one, they all move with it. I hope this helps!
3:59 / 14:02 I think you forgot to click (check mark) on the option Dither. To prevent banding. But love the tutorial. Never thought of doing a gradient filter effect to do a seamless photo backdrop.
Greta video, how do I save this new background as a preset so that I can reuse it to run almost like a function for repetitive tasks and editing photos shot in the same studio
I've watched this video seems like a thousand times and have followed it step by step and everything works fine. great results until I get trying to add the shadow back into the image. I just can't get it to do it any suggestions?????
Awesome but far easier if you get it right in the shoot. save all this hassle. or try the burn tool to create the shadow fast and dirty. nobody could tell.
The point of the video is what to do if you have to work with something not done "right in the shot." That's 99% of the professional work I do for the Hollywood industry.
Great tutorial as always - thank you but … at 9.03 whatever I do I can’t use alt (Mac Option key) and click to select and fill the outside to select the shadow area. Driving me mad - any advice please??
Su, basically you need to make sure the area outside is selected. Then fill with black, it could be your foreground or background color. Sorry if I misunderstood your question
I have tried the shadow technique several times now but as soon as I press control + backspace it doesn't go black, it goes white. i have had a few successful attempts but I can't figure out the problem, since I am doing exactly what you are doing and the majority of the time this happens. Do you have a fix for this?
@@PhotoshopTrainingChannel It looks as if the angle of the shadow cast by the man's right foot and even those of the stool's legs and their supports would not change much by the time you get to the top of his head. Because of the inverse square law, the shadow that would be cast at the top of his head would be lighter, but at that point, it's already being projected against the reflective floor and barely visible, if at all. I would have thought that by extending the matte nature of the background, that shadow would be more visible, albeit lighter than at the bottom of the stool, but the shadow you created seems to stop and looks squared off where the new background extension met the old background. This is something the average viewer may not notice and maybe I'm being too finicky, but I wanted to express my thoughts about it, just the same.
@@PhotoshopTrainingChannel the first technique qualifies as fast. The second technique involved about 100 steps. If you consider that fast then you have a lot more spare time than I have.
Jesus .. Thank you for this great tutorial .. super easy to follow and tons of detail .. I like that you provide the reason why you choose the tools you do or the method you use .. because there are SO many ways to get something done in PS. I used my own image to follow along .. but had a problem with the person having like a line around the edges and I could never figure out how to get rid of that [it wasn't like a halo, but this weird edge]
@@JaeRobinson Jae, There might be a few reasons. Feel free to message me through my website. I could look at your result and see what issues could be causing it. Thanks
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I have been using photoshop for well over 10 years and doing a lot of compositing but never could work with shadows very well unless the shadow was on a white background.
Im so glad I tuned into this tutorial to get a great way to add a shadow to a composited image. Thank you for sharing your skills!
You're welcome, Buddy!
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Has to be the best PS tutorial content creator out there. Just the way it is explained is so easy to understand. Not beginner but not too advanced. Great Video!
Thank you!
You always come with conciseness and preciseness. May God give you sound health.
Thank you, Info Codex!
super skills and talent at its best. ive been watching you and unmesh for a very long time and because of you guys i have enhanced my knowledge in Ps. thank you and more power.
Thank you!
Everything in this vid is great -- but it's totally worth it just for the "Link layers" button that I never noticed!
Thank you!
Great tutorial as always. Learnt some new things too. Will be very handy editing my wife's studio shoots. Thanks again Jesus. You're awesome.
You're welcome, Robertino!
Talented great teacher thank you for this video God bless you 🙏
I am glad I discovered this channel, thank you for this tutorial, I am a newbie in PS, so I am constantly having problems, especially with my tools not working correctly or at all sometimes and I don't know why.
Thank you, Dana! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
I want to create that backdrop shadow manually. Eagerly waiting for a manually created realistic backdrop shadow tutorial ✋
Jesus , really like how you present your content - thanks Peter
Thank you, Peter!
OMG THANK YOU SOOO MUCH FOR THIS! I've been making it so hard on myself. This was very detailed & informative. very nice
Excelent tutorial Mr. Jesus Ramirez, you gave a great step by step ass well as many things to take into consideration! I must say that after making mistakes the minute you hear an expert like yourself give a tip one knows why you are giving the tip. In the past I have done what you showed us in this video and later as I looked back at the images I immediatly noticed that the background needed noise in order to look believable. Thanks for this fantastic channel and for all the great information you share with us all here, much health and success to you Sir!
Thank you, Alexander! I'm glad you found it useful. Health and success to you as well!
Thanks a lot. Struckiing with this quite often.
You're welcome, Hans!
This answers so many questions! Thank you!
You're welcome!
You Sir, are Brilliant 😊🙏
Thank you!
You are amazing! I cannot believe this is free
Thank you, Lewis!
Happy to see you again!
Thank you!
You are an amazing teacher!
Thank you! 😃
Gr8 Bro 👌
Thank You 😉
God Bless You 🙏
You're welcome!
Once more, great techniques and tips. Hala Madrid!!
Thank you!
Very consice. Very nicely done 👏🏾
Thank you!
Excellent as usual , thank you very much
You're welcome, José!
Thank you for an amazing tutorial!
Great Video thank you so much I learned a great deal :) One thing I have trouble when using gradients is banding. I can't tell from this video if the banding was present or not as the compression of the video affects the image. Have you any tips for getting rid of banding in gradients please :)
A very nice tutorial as always, thanks Jesus.
You're welcome, Bob!
Thanks!
Thank you so much, Rod!
Really cool, Jesus! It works, but this is worth practicing.
Thank you, John!
awesome technique
Thank you!
Welcome back sir 👍
Thank you, Sajid!
Amazing
Thank you!
Terrific - Thank you.
Love your work Sir.
Thank you!
Good tutorial. Thanks
Amazing 😍
Thank you!
nice tut bro :D
Thank you!
Another question, Jesús: When you went to soften the shadow edge (~9:45), why did you use a Brush rather than the Feather slider in the Properties panel for that Layer Mask? Does the soft brush give you more control over where to apply the feathering? Thanx!
Exactly right! I can decide where and how to paint in the shadow.
Thank you for another amazing tutorial, Jesús! Question: How does Linking Layers (~11:24) differ from Grouping them? Why/when use one as opposed to the other? Thanx again!
Grouping (by default) is used purely for organization. Linking layers allows you to keep multiple layers together without having them in the same group. In other words, you can have multiple layers linked that belong to different groups. When you move one, they all move with it. I hope this helps!
@@PhotoshopTrainingChannel Yikes -- Thank you! Whodathunk! I never noticed that Link icon before - You have opened up a whole new Ps world for me!
3:59 / 14:02 I think you forgot to click (check mark) on the option Dither. To prevent banding. But love the tutorial. Never thought of doing a gradient filter effect to do a seamless photo backdrop.
Greta video, how do I save this new background as a preset so that I can reuse it to run almost like a function for repetitive tasks and editing photos shot in the same studio
good job this video very helpfull
Thanks Jesús...
I've watched this video seems like a thousand times and have followed it step by step and everything works fine. great results until I get trying to add the shadow back into the image. I just can't get it to do it any suggestions?????
@@leonardmayberry4485 I’m having the same issue. When I go to curves adjustment and move nothing happens.
Awesome but far easier if you get it right in the shoot. save all this hassle. or try the burn tool to create the shadow fast and dirty. nobody could tell.
The point of the video is what to do if you have to work with something not done "right in the shot." That's 99% of the professional work I do for the Hollywood industry.
Fantástico! obrigado!
While you still have the gradient transparent, select the colours from the image for the top and middle, etc, to match colours better
Do you provide the file to practice/follow along ? Thanks
great
What if you wanted to move the background shadow after creating it?
Great tutorial as always - thank you but … at 9.03 whatever I do I can’t use alt (Mac Option key) and click to select and fill the outside to select the shadow area. Driving me mad - any advice please??
Su, basically you need to make sure the area outside is selected. Then fill with black, it could be your foreground or background color. Sorry if I misunderstood your question
I have tried the shadow technique several times now but as soon as I press control + backspace it doesn't go black, it goes white. i have had a few successful attempts but I can't figure out the problem, since I am doing exactly what you are doing and the majority of the time this happens. Do you have a fix for this?
Ctrl Backspace fills with background color. Make sure Black is the background color.
@@PhotoshopTrainingChannel it is. I did precisely that 🥲
Great tutorial. Is it possible to download the photo. I hav e no photo to use. /Nils
Can you show how to remove a air con image from a wall.
The chair shadow is fine, but the man would have a shadow too.
There was no shadow in the original photo. So why add it?
@@PhotoshopTrainingChannel It looks as if the angle of the shadow cast by the man's right foot and even those of the stool's legs and their supports would not change much by the time you get to the top of his head. Because of the inverse square law, the shadow that would be cast at the top of his head would be lighter, but at that point, it's already being projected against the reflective floor and barely visible, if at all. I would have thought that by extending the matte nature of the background, that shadow would be more visible, albeit lighter than at the bottom of the stool, but the shadow you created seems to stop and looks squared off where the new background extension met the old background. This is something the average viewer may not notice and maybe I'm being too finicky, but I wanted to express my thoughts about it, just the same.
That's a lot of work. Easier to just do the photo properly to start with as in remove unwanted objects in camera.
Sure. But sometimes you have to work with what you have. Or you may not even be the photographer just the person stuck with the retouching/design.
Good information but presented too quickly. Can’t keep up.
Fast and easy??? That was like 1000 steps
The video showed two techniques in 14 minutes. I would say that's fast. And the first technique was very easy.
@@PhotoshopTrainingChannel the first technique qualifies as fast. The second technique involved about 100 steps. If you consider that fast then you have a lot more spare time than I have.
I need this image .Can you please give me this image? @PhotoshopTrainingChannel.
OMG THANK YOU SOOO MUCH FOR THIS! I've been making it so hard on myself. This was very detailed & informative. THANK YOU! THANK YOU!!!❤️
You're welcome!
Thanks!
Thank you so much for that!
Thanks!
Jesus .. Thank you for this great tutorial .. super easy to follow and tons of detail .. I like that you provide the reason why you choose the tools you do or the method you use .. because there are SO many ways to get something done in PS. I used my own image to follow along .. but had a problem with the person having like a line around the edges and I could never figure out how to get rid of that [it wasn't like a halo, but this weird edge]
@@JaeRobinson Jae, There might be a few reasons. Feel free to message me through my website. I could look at your result and see what issues could be causing it. Thanks