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Creating a Realistic Photo Effect with Soft Shadows


Create a rectangle using rectangular shape tool.

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Press Ctrl+T. Right Click and select Warp. Adjust the nodes to get the shape as shown.

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Press Ctrl+T and rotate a bit.

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Duplicate the layer and scale down uniformly. Fill it with black color. This will serve as mask area for the photos.

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Insert any image. Move this layer just above the mask layer in layer order in layer palette. Press Ctrl+Alt+G to create a clipping mask.

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Duplicate the original white frame layer. Double click the layer to open layer style window. In gradient overlay apply gradient settings as shown.

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Reduce the fill value to 0%.

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Ctrl+Click the layer thumbnail to get the selection. Press Alt+Ctrl+D to feather the selection. Feather the selection by 4 pixels.

Right click the selection and select transform selection. Move and rotate a bit.

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Create a new layer an fill it with dark gray color.

Creating a Realistic Photo Effect with Soft Shadows Tutorial: Final Result



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