How to distort a shadow

[AgentGoodspeed 40]

Instead of explaining what I want to do, here's an example from the Harry Brown movie poster. I want to be able to do this sort of shadow and then fill it with something cool.

 

 

I understand for this particular example, it's been painted (or photographed in a way to create this shadow) but I've seen a video here on the forum how to do it and I can't find it anymore. The video was about another effect but the user (how I wish I knew his/her name!) finished things off with a shadow. They stretched it this way and that way, rotating it back so it looks like it was on the ground. It was glorious.

 

I've tried the shadow plug-in but I lose too much because of the main subject. I tried TR's Distort This but it doesn't let me stretch it to make it bigger. I tried rotate/zoom and not getting what I need.

 

If I could only find the video again! I get a feeling it was posted by MJW or Cc4FuzzyHuggles though. Maybe?

[Red ochre 1,467]

Could it be this tutorial?

http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/31505-drop-shadow-tutorial/

[AgentGoodspeed 40]

29 minutes ago, Red ochre said:

Could it be this tutorial?

http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/31505-drop-shadow-tutorial/

Afraid not.

 

This is going to sound uncouth but I'm terrible with names, especially usernames, but the member with the Beatles-like purple avatar with the huge 70s mustache? I forget his name but he might have posted that video.

 

It featured a girl standing on a wooden pier at night – that's when he made the nifty shadow. I remember a lot of (possibly freehand) stretching and distorting.

Edited August 19, 2016 by AgentGoodspeed

[Red ochre 1,467]

Sounds like 'Ishi's' avatar - Ringo Starr! ?

Try using this search it seems better than the normal forum one for some things.

http://www.getpaint.net/search.html

[Woodsy 844]

 Here are some videos, not made by Ishi, that may do what you want.

[dipstick 871]

You can:

1) duplicate your target layer.

2) apply drop shadow to that layer (deselect keep image)

3) use GridWarp to distort the shadow.

 

[Shochi 327]

Yesterday i first start to make my first Shadow to my Hyb.

I use the the 3D Shape of  Dice:

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the final was like that:

 

 

 

[Pixey 3,879]

Hmmm - now I'm curious as to what video that was .............

 

Meanwhile, perhaps this Plugin:  http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/1900-shadow-effect-plugin-updated-for-40-on-2015-03-23/&page=1

 

[AgentGoodspeed 40]

Thanks everyone. Still haven't found the video (and it's going to haunt me like Capt. Ahab) but so far Dipstick's method seems the most doable with my limited abilities. I shall try it out.

[AgentGoodspeed 40]

FOUND IT!!!

 

The video is here: http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/31895-ishis-not-so-fancy-pdn-gallery-updated-july-8-2016/&page=4#comment-518643

[IRON67 357]

Here is a sample from me.
Because "Shadow" produces a very blurry shadow without good edges, I used another way. After duplicating the cutted person and filled with gray I first used "Oblique", then "Perspective", "TR's Distort this" and last "Gradient Blur".

 

 

[SilviaF 0]

Please, can you tell me where I can download the "gradient blur"? Thank you

[IRON67 357]

Here it is: http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/6532-gradient-blur-ymd100710/

[dipstick 871]

I made a cool shadow effect while playing around in PDN...