From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Fundamentals

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Drawing a freeform shadow with the Lasso

Drawing a freeform shadow with the Lasso - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Fundamentals

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Drawing a freeform shadow with the Lasso

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- [Narrator] In this movie, we're going to scale, rotate and position our figure and we're also going to give her a natural cast shadow that we're going to draw by hand, using the standard free form Lasso tool. All right, so I'll start by zooming in on my figure. And then, make sure that the Figure layer is selected here inside the Layers panel. And then go up to the Edit menu and choose the Free Transform command or you can press Control T here on the PC or Command T on the Mac. Now I could go ahead and shift, drag one of the corner handles in order to scale her proportionally but I already know the values I'm looking for so I'll go ahead and turn on the Link icon between the width and height values and then I'll click on the W to select the width value and I'll change it to 32% and the height value will change in kind. I also think she's a little bit crooked so I'm going to drag outside the transform boundary to rotate her a little bit in a clockwise direction and in the end, I…

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