It was a one-hour live presentation where I talked about the secrets of compositing in Photoshop.
Some of the specific topics I covered were:
Making shadows
Perspective
Atmospheric perspective
Reflections
Color casts
And More!
Andrew Kavanagh, the founder of the Photoshop and Lightroom group on Facebook, was the host of this event.
Andrew has one Adobe Connect session monthly with a Photoshop or Lightroom expert. If you want to watch previous guests, you can visit the archive of past guests here.
If you’re interested, you can download the shadow graphics I used in the presentation in the section below.
Pro Training
Selections and Masking Mastery
Complete course includes 2.5 hours of step-by-step lessons, 6 structured modules, downloadable practice files, and custom Photoshop brushes. Everything you need to master selections and masks in one place.
Jesús Ramirez is a graphic designer and the founder of the Photoshop Training Channel, which he started in 2012 and has grown past two million YouTube subscribers. He has taught at Adobe MAX, Adobe Summit, and Photoshop World, teaches courses for CreativeLive and Pluralsight, and was one of five artists chosen for Adobe Stock's Make a Masterpiece campaign. His Photoshop templates shipped inside Photoshop CC 2018.
Realistic shadows in Photoshop come from color, perspective and blur, not just a black silhouette. Fix all three with layer masks, Puppet Warp and a gradient fade.
Turn a portrait into a brain-eating zombie with a skull, rust textures, clipping masks, and adjustment layers, all non-destructive so the original photo survives.
Turn a soap bubble into a clear alien egg with the Luminosity blending mode, the Plastic Wrap filter, layer masks, and a hand-painted shadow on a wood table.
