Shadows Tutorial

This tutorial taught me how to create realistic shadows for objects. I chose to do a penguin. It was kind of hard to extract the penguin from his original picture, but when I got rid of the pixel fringe it looked pretty good. The shadow was relatively easy to create, all you had to do was copy the penguin and then slant the shadow. I probably should have slanted mine a little more to make it match the trees in the background, but I didn't find the background until after I created the penguin. To make the shadow look realistic you have to add a gradient overlay, to make mine fit into the snow a little better I made it dark blue to light blue instead of black to white. I think my penguins shadow looks pretty good.

Realistic Shadows