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Advanced Light + Shadow
Published: 2007-11-21 05:47:22 +0000 UTC; Views: 50834; Favourites: 931; Downloads: 2678
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Part of my SO YOU WANT TO BE A PHOTOMANIPULATOR series.This teaches you about how to find the light source, why there are different kinds of shadows and how and when to use them, how to deal with double shadows, and when (and how) to use the Burn tool in Photoshop. Lots of examples!
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Comments: 74
Thank you so much for the helpful tutorial
It helped me to make this
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thank you very much for this tutorial,
Always had a big problem with lights and shadows, and this is very helpful!
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thank you for the tut! it's very helpful for understanding things!
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Wow. o.o This is the first good thing on shadows I've been able to find.
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Featured in "Texture Tuesdays" new article [link]
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Thanks for this wonderful tutorial!
I found it very helpful.
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Very useful, I'll put it to use straightaway thanks!
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Thank you ever so much for providing tutorials!
I have featured this here-> [link]
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thanks for this, light & shadow are always something i struggle with
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Thank you! This is very helpful. It's nice to find a tut that has visually illustrated the logic of light sources!
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Not only you create wonderful stuff, but you also take your time to spread the knowledge. You're too kind.
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this is very helpful, it's true.
but how can i do those shadows? I tried blending, but i couldn't =\
if you could help me i will appreciate a lot.
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I have a tutorial on how to do that here: [link]
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Hey there!!
Your Tutorial is being featured on my News Article here: [link]
Thank you so much for sharing
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This is a wonderful tutorial, thank you so much for writing it and sharing! 
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Thanks for taking the time to drop me a note. I really appreciate it!!
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Hi
I would like to let you know that I featured this here-[link]
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I think this is also very useful for someone wanting to draw from imagination, yet realistically.
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If everyone would give as much of a damn as you seem to about your photomanipulations, the world of that category would be a more beautiful place.
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what a lovely compliment. thank you so very much!!
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One should note that fuzzy shadows get sharper as they get closer to the source.
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Thank you very much for this! It will give me a huge boost in brushing up on those manips. I'll definitely check out anything else you have on the subject.
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Yay!! Thank you so much for taking the time to comment!
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You're welcome!
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This is extremely helpful! Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge
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Thank you! Love your username, btw.
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Brilliant tutorial! Definitely a keeper!
Cheers.
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wow so informative, so clean. this is of professional grade by far! very well done, i toke the time for knowing shadows are there, now i know shadows!
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Thank you, I appreciate that. I guess teacher (not of art) + artist = good tut in this case. Whew!
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I'd say, thanks for the reply
(dark council chapter 2 is here)
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I think I use all of these shadows... On faces, though. Like, one of the pics I drew -not posted here- fades from dark black to light grey -I used my finger to make it fade juuussttt right-. Anyway, thank you for making the tutorial CX.
~Rikku-chan
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This is a lot of help. Thanks!
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