From the course: Adobe Firefly: Tips and Production Techniques
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Generating realistic shadows
From the course: Adobe Firefly: Tips and Production Techniques
Generating realistic shadows
- [Instructor] What makes an image composition realistic? And very often the answer is perspective, light, shadows, and reflections. If you can get all those different elements correct, there is a very high probability no one will even notice this was a photo composition. But how do you create these different elements? And that's where Firefly comes in. Here in Photoshop, I've opened up Carstart.psd and this is a very simple image of a landscape, and I imported this car image. So I cut the car image out from a different image, I actually flipped it horizontally, I add some blur to the tires and the wheels, and I think I got the position correct, and it also has the same perspective. The only thing I'm missing is a shadow effect, because now clearly the car is just hovering over the road and it's not what we want. So I have to create a realistic looking shadow, and I have a few different options here. Now, I could just brush a shadow, but I would have to really know where and how I…
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