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SHADOW TUTORIAL
Made by me
I was having trouble with one of my shadows for my last manip, and that inspired me to make a shadow tut. You'll probably recognise the horse from my Either Way graphic.
Hope it helps someone! It's a pretty general technique, just thought I'd help some people out.
The next tut will be...
Shadows in water!
CREDITS:
Thanks, guys!
= horse
= mane/tail/eye, etc.
No copyrighting, stealing, claiming as your own, or re-uploading. Do any of these and I will find you...
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Comments: 116
Thank you so so so so much! My way of doing shadows before this tutorial was so slow, edgy and cheap looking - now they look pretty professional! Thanks again (:Β
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Thank you you saved my life! (not really hehe) But I can actually understand this!
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Glad I could help!
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May I ask what type font that is? I'm obsessed with itΒ Β
Also, you just saved my manip! Thank you sooooooo muchΒ Β
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That would be Champagne & Limousines - you can download it for free from Dafont.com
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thank you, I've Β fallen in loveeeee with it xD
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Absolutely brilliant!
But maybe it's just someone's style to put the shadow on top, haha. xD Y'know, there is always those unique artists. 
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I stink at shadows so I usually just don't put them on
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No problem, I'm glad you found the tutorial helpful!
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I knew how to do shadows but now I know how to make them more real 
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Used for help on an HL order
dA: [link]
HL: [link]
Very helpful!
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Lovely work; I'm glad you found the tutorial helpful!
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Thanks!
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good tutorial 
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That's a great tip, thanks for sharing!
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Glad you found it helpful!
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wait- what tool is the Ctrl+T get you to for us gimp users?
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Gimp users will need to use Shift+C instead.
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ahh okay thanks
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Thank you so much !!! It was very, very helpful
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Popping back again to say that I used your tutorial for another art!
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Just letting you know that I used this tutorial for an art of mine
Thanks so much for sharing this, it was just what I needed for my art! [link]
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(super late reply for you and i a not the original poster of this tutorial but i do use gimp :3)
GIMP works basically the same way. When you finish your prep on the ojbect you want a shadow of simply duplicate the layer and either got to Color>brightness/contrast and lower brightness and increase contrast or bucket fill the object with black. Then use the resize tool and "squish" the image down (make sure the little chain is unhoooked!). You can then go to blur>gaussian blur and blur it
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Thanks! This helped me so much with my first shadow in a manip!
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any ideas on if you are a GIMP user.... I use the trasform tool (same as ctrl T like you said) but then the i cant line up the real legs with the shadow legs
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(super late reply for you and i a not the original poster of this tutorial but i do use gimp :3)
GIMP works basically the same way. When you finish your prep on the ojbect you want a shadow of simply duplicate the layer and either got to Color>brightness/contrast and lower brightness and increase contrast or bucket fill the object with black. Then use the resize tool and "squish" the image down (make sure the little chain is unhoooked!). You can then go to blur>gaussian blur and blur it Of course the change in opacity is up to you/depends on your background image ^^
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glad you like it!
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I've seen a straight-edged shadow! ...... nahhh... but it woulld be cool!
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Thank you so much for the wonderful tutorial! This is the 2nd tutorial of yours that has actually been of use to me! So many of them are useless junk that ends up confusing me more then helping...
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thankyou, I'm glad you found it helpful!
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OMG you just saved my life!
ive been wondering how to do these shadows for ages!!!!
youre a saint!
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OMG!!!!
this...
is...
the....
BEST TUTORIAL THAT I HAVE EVER ENCOUNTERD!!
Amazing, brilliant, easy, simple.
I 
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Yeaa
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A good tutorial, quick easy and to the point. It is also well written and the graphics show very clearly all the steps taken. This is one of the parts of manipulation that I have the most trouble with and this will help a lot. Thank you for making it.
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Thankyou very much!
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