Here is a quick tip do create beautiful shadows on laces and doilies. This effect you can apply on many other objects and also papers.
1) Open a new document and add your background paper. Add a lace or doily to the paper.
Set the shadow like following layer effect:
Drop Shadow:
2) Then create a new layer from this shadow effect.
(double click the fx icon on the layer style effects)
3) Select this new layer with the shadow. Then choose FILTER> Blur >Gaussian Blur
4) and set Radius to 18.0 pixels. This will blur the shadow a little. I like to do this effect in my layouts!
5) now we will wrap the shadow effect to create a 3D sensation. Go to Transform > Wrap.
6) A grid appears over your selection. You can then click and drag along any line of the grid or any point on the edge of the grid to start warping. Do it until you are happy with it.
7) See here below what I did with my doily.
8) That’s it! Use this same effect on any object or paper! Depending on the background color, you have to increase or decrease the opacity of the shadow layer!
Here is my layout, I used my Hygge collection for this page. And below is the free Quick Page that I created for this tutorial.
Thank your for this tutorial, It worked for me up to the transform,GBlur but I have no warp option. I am working with an older version of PSE10, at least some of it works in PSE10.
This was great.
Thank you, love the page!
Thank you so much for the amazing tutorial!
This was quite different in GIMP, but your tutorial was so detailed I was able to figure out how to make it work. If anyone else is using GIMP, I used the Legacy drop shadow which is on a separate layer than the element, and then used the Gaussian Blur filter and set the XY axis up to 18. I then used the Warp Transform tool with the size waaayyy up (I used a large element so I set the size to 541 to “grab” each section of lace that I wanted to work with . It worked to make the edges look curled. I didn’t curl every piece as I wanted it to look a bit uneven.
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