Photo Effects: Shadding of the Photography


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On this tutorial i will show you one interesting effect i’ve got by experimenting with Photoshop filters.

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Photo Effects: Shadding of the Photography

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Step 1

Start by opening photo and then go to Image > Image Size to update it´s width to 600px and height to 800px.

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Step 2

Background is too white so we need to reduce brightness of whole photo by going to Image > Adjustments > Levels.

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Step 3

We need to increase contrast by going to Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast.

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Step 4

Go to Window > Channels and create a new channel there. This new channel will be filled with black color on channels thumbnails. Make sure you have all channels visible and your photo will look like mine.

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Select Elliptical Marquee Tool to make selection similar to mine.

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After that feather selection with Select > Modify > Feather Selection.

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Select Paint Bucket Tool to fill selected area on newly created channel with white color (#ffffff). Deselect selection with Ctrl+D.

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Step 5

Go to Filter > Noise > Add Noise.

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Step 6

Apply Filter > Brush Strokes > Angled Strokes.

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Step 7

Hold Ctrl button and click on Alpha 1 channel thumbnail on Channels palette to load selection of this channel.

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Apply Select > Inverse to invert selection.

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Create a new layer above photo layer and fill selected area with white color.

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Final Image

Remove selection with Select > Deselect and this tutorial is complete.

Photo Effects: Shadding of the Photography

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12 Responses to “Photo Effects: Shadding of the Photography”

  1. This tutorial is quite workable,’cause introduces channels more and also works on filters for a final ambience

  2. Very Easy , Tanks Sheare With us

  3. Thank you for sharing your knowledge… may God bless You!

  4. simple and Beautiful
    Thank you ^_^

  5. Thanks for sharing the knowledge

  6. The steps are very easy and simple but the effect it creates is really very much attractive and fantabulous. Well done indeed.

    With warm regards,
    Suresh Khaire

  7. nice!
    But it took me hours to get it perfect.
    Al the same,thanks

  8. This is a good tutoral my friend…thank you so much

  9. This can be a great effect..Thanks!