Archive for February 24th, 2010

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Ever wanted to add a bottom shadow effect to some elements, shapes or images in Photoshop in just a few easy steps? Well actually is quite easy to do something like this and you don’t have to be an expert.

The main design advantage that bottom shadow effects have is that it will give you the impression of deepness to your content and elements.

Here is the desired effect

ps-bottom-shadow-effect-1b

Step 1 – Open your image / document

Open your document or image in Photoshop and create a new Layer right after your main Layer. In this layer we will add the bottom shadow effect and because the new layer is positioned right after our main one it will display in the back without overlapping the main layer…

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