Excelent tutorial Mr. Jesus Ramirez, you gave a great step by step ass well as many things to take into consideration! I must say that after making mistakes the minute you hear an expert like yourself give a tip one knows why you are giving the tip. In the past I have done what you showed us in this video and later as I looked back at the images I immediatly noticed that the background needed noise in order to look believable. Thanks for this fantastic channel and for all the great information you share with us all here, much health and success to you Sir!
super skills and talent at its best. ive been watching you and unmesh for a very long time and because of you guys i have enhanced my knowledge in Ps. thank you and more power.
I have been using photoshop for well over 10 years and doing a lot of compositing but never could work with shadows very well unless the shadow was on a white background. Im so glad I tuned into this tutorial to get a great way to add a shadow to a composited image. Thank you for sharing your skills!
Greta video, how do I save this new background as a preset so that I can reuse it to run almost like a function for repetitive tasks and editing photos shot in the same studio
Great Video thank you so much I learned a great deal :) One thing I have trouble when using gradients is banding. I can't tell from this video if the banding was present or not as the compression of the video affects the image. Have you any tips for getting rid of banding in gradients please :)
@@PhotoshopTrainingChannel the first technique qualifies as fast. The second technique involved about 100 steps. If you consider that fast then you have a lot more spare time than I have.
Another question, Jesús: When you went to soften the shadow edge (~9:45), why did you use a Brush rather than the Feather slider in the Properties panel for that Layer Mask? Does the soft brush give you more control over where to apply the feathering? Thanx!
Awesome but far easier if you get it right in the shoot. save all this hassle. or try the burn tool to create the shadow fast and dirty. nobody could tell.
The point of the video is what to do if you have to work with something not done "right in the shot." That's 99% of the professional work I do for the Hollywood industry.
Has to be the best PS tutorial content creator out there. Just the way it is explained is so easy to understand. Not beginner but not too advanced. Great Video!
I have tried the shadow technique several times now but as soon as I press control + backspace it doesn't go black, it goes white. i have had a few successful attempts but I can't figure out the problem, since I am doing exactly what you are doing and the majority of the time this happens. Do you have a fix for this?
I am glad I discovered this channel, thank you for this tutorial, I am a newbie in PS, so I am constantly having problems, especially with my tools not working correctly or at all sometimes and I don't know why.
I've watched this video seems like a thousand times and have followed it step by step and everything works fine. great results until I get trying to add the shadow back into the image. I just can't get it to do it any suggestions?????
Thank you for another amazing tutorial, Jesús! Question: How does Linking Layers (~11:24) differ from Grouping them? Why/when use one as opposed to the other? Thanx again!
Grouping (by default) is used purely for organization. Linking layers allows you to keep multiple layers together without having them in the same group. In other words, you can have multiple layers linked that belong to different groups. When you move one, they all move with it. I hope this helps!
3:59 / 14:02 I think you forgot to click (check mark) on the option Dither. To prevent banding. But love the tutorial. Never thought of doing a gradient filter effect to do a seamless photo backdrop.
Jesus .. Thank you for this great tutorial .. super easy to follow and tons of detail .. I like that you provide the reason why you choose the tools you do or the method you use .. because there are SO many ways to get something done in PS. I used my own image to follow along .. but had a problem with the person having like a line around the edges and I could never figure out how to get rid of that [it wasn't like a halo, but this weird edge]
@@JaeRobinson Jae, There might be a few reasons. Feel free to message me through my website. I could look at your result and see what issues could be causing it. Thanks
Great tutorial as always - thank you but … at 9.03 whatever I do I can’t use alt (Mac Option key) and click to select and fill the outside to select the shadow area. Driving me mad - any advice please??
Su, basically you need to make sure the area outside is selected. Then fill with black, it could be your foreground or background color. Sorry if I misunderstood your question
@@PhotoshopTrainingChannel It looks as if the angle of the shadow cast by the man's right foot and even those of the stool's legs and their supports would not change much by the time you get to the top of his head. Because of the inverse square law, the shadow that would be cast at the top of his head would be lighter, but at that point, it's already being projected against the reflective floor and barely visible, if at all. I would have thought that by extending the matte nature of the background, that shadow would be more visible, albeit lighter than at the bottom of the stool, but the shadow you created seems to stop and looks squared off where the new background extension met the old background. This is something the average viewer may not notice and maybe I'm being too finicky, but I wanted to express my thoughts about it, just the same.
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