AgentGoodspeed 40 Report post Posted August 19, 2016 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? 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Red ochre 1,467 Report post Posted August 19, 2016 Could it be this tutorial? http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/31505-drop-shadow-tutorial/ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AgentGoodspeed 40 Report post Posted August 19, 2016 (edited) 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 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Red ochre 1,467 Report post Posted August 19, 2016 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 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Woodsy 844 Report post Posted August 19, 2016 Here are some videos, not made by Ishi, that may do what you want. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dipstick 871 Report post Posted August 20, 2016 You can: 1) duplicate your target layer. 2) apply drop shadow to that layer (deselect keep image) 3) use GridWarp to distort the shadow. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Shochi 327 Report post Posted August 20, 2016 Yesterday i first start to make my first Shadow to my Hyb. I use the the 3D Shape of Dice: I the final was like that: 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pixey 3,879 Report post Posted August 20, 2016 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 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AgentGoodspeed 40 Report post Posted August 20, 2016 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. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AgentGoodspeed 40 Report post Posted August 20, 2016 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 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
IRON67 357 Report post Posted August 20, 2016 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". 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SilviaF 0 Report post Posted August 23, 2016 Please, can you tell me where I can download the "gradient blur"? Thank you Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
IRON67 357 Report post Posted August 23, 2016 Here it is: http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/6532-gradient-blur-ymd100710/ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dipstick 871 Report post Posted August 27, 2016 I made a cool shadow effect while playing around in PDN... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites