![]() ![]() Why would there be giant limes in the middle of the street? Well there wouldn’t be, but hey that’s the joy of Photoshop, and the point is to show you the limes with their partly transparent shadows intact in a different scene. If the edge of the limes look too jagged, you could take the Blur Tool (R) and gently brush around their edge. Hold down Shift as you drag if you want to put the limes onto the very centre of the street scene. Open this image in Photoshop, then drag your merged lime image on top. I chose a streetscape image, again from Stock Xchng. ![]() Now you’re ready to bring your object and shadows to another background.ĩ. Merge the two remaining layers by pressing Ctrl + E (windows) or Cmd + E (mac). At this stage you should only have the lime layer and the shadows.Ĩ. Click on the original background layer again, select all and hit Delete to get rid of the Background layer. It will look like a slightly ghostly layer.ħ. Then fill the new layer with black by pressing Alt + Backspace (windows) and Option + Delete (mac). Make sure your foreground colour is set to black by pressing D on the keyboard. With the selection still in place, add a new layer above the original layer and below the lime only layer.Ħ. It might not look like all the shadows are selected but don’t worry, more that you think is selected.ĥ. Set the Opacity at '100,' the Scale at '3.5,' and the Length at '100 px.' Select 'Fade Out' to give the tool a soft edge. Step 2 Set the Mode as 'Normal' in the Tool Options Box. Press Ctrl + Shift + I (windows) or Cmd + Shift + I (mac). Select the 'Healing Tool' from the Toolbox. We’re not interested in highlights though, we’re looking for shadows so we need to inverse the selection. Press Ctrl + Alt + ~ (windows) or Cmd + Opt + ~ (mac). Basically that means that highlights are selected. Press Ctrl + J (windows) or Cmd + J (Mac) to make a duplicate of the limes on a new layer.Ĥ. Use whatever selection tool you feel most comfortable with but make sure it’s a good clean selection.ģ. Make sure that only the limes are selected and none of the shadows. For this example I’m using an image of a couple of limes by straymuse which is available for free download from Stock Xchng.Ģ. Open up the image of an object whose shadows you want to keep intact. For more general editing techniques, learn how to remove the background.ġ. To do this we’ll use the Luminosity channel in Photoshop.
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