Photoshop fame in terms of graphic design is no doubt about it. For image processing such as photo manipulation even make a cool effect on a post, all can be done in Photoshop. Many designers who make Photoshop as a flagship program. Even to ease users into the process of the project faster, Photoshop can be paired with third parties such as plugins and actions. Of course, in addition to accelerating progress, attendance plugin and actions can help users who are new to Photoshop (beginner). The work of a beginner if aided by the plugin and then the result can resemble the actions of a professional designer.
Small example when we want to create the effect of a flat long shadow on the image or text, then so saving time in the process can use a plugin or actions. Despite the fact that just making a flat long shadow in Photoshop without the plugin and actionspun easy to do. But it would not hurt as well if using a plugin or actions.
Then Plugin What To Make a Long Shadow Effect In Photoshop?
Free plugin can we manfa'atkan to create a shadow effect is long Long Shadow Generator Plugin. With Long Shadow Generator Plugin we can save processing time when we make a flat long shadow. Unfortunately, this plugin is currently only available to Photoshop CS6 and Photoshop CC only.
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If you are using Adobe Photoshop or Photoshop CS6 Photoshop CC could try this plugin. You can download it for free Plugin Long Shadow Generator here.
How to use this plugin is easy. Once you have successfully downloaded the plugin file, and then you double click (double-click) the file and will start installing automatically via the Adobe Extension Manager. You follow all the instructions that appear until the installation is complete.
Furthermore, if the install is complete, you open the Photoshop program. Then you click on the menu Windows> Extensions> Long Shadow Generator and finally you click the icon LS.
Long Shadow Generator Plugin has a feature quite complete for the purposes of making long shadow effect. We can freely adjust the length of the shadow (long shadow). Shadow length is measured in units of pixels, such as: 10, 20, 40, 80, 160 and 320 pixels.
Then Long Shadow Generator Plugin has a Long Shadow Opacity settings. This setting serves to determine transfaransi shadows by default has 20% opacity.
You will also be presented with a choice of 4 options shadows, namely: bottom right, bottom left, top right and top left.
Photoshop Actions To Make Flat Long Shadow
If you are not a user of Photoshop CS6 and Photoshop CC should not grieve. The solution you can use the Actions Long Shadow. As we already know, if it is a recording actions Photoshop actions that can then be run again. Recording actions long shadow (Actions) You can also get it for free.
After you download Actions Long Shadow, please you extract the file using WinZip or WinRAR application. Later .atn format file copy and paste Long Shadow on drive C:> Program Files> Adobe> Adobe Photoshop> Presets> Actions.
More details how to copy and paste files .atn (Actions) you can see in this article. Then how to use Photoshop Actions you can see also in my previous article here.
When you are finished copy and paste files Actions Long Shadow in Adobe Photoshop directory, then just run it just (play) if you want to make a long shadow effect on the text (text) or images.
File these actions also have arrangements to determine the direction of the shadow, namely: shadows from the right and left. And also has settings for determining opacity shadow.
Examples of the results of a post that has been given a long shadow effect using the Actions Long Shadow is as shown below:
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You can diperhemat passable time when working on flat long shadow Plugin or Actions. And possible discussion of how to create a long shadow effect is assisted with Photoshop Plugin and Actions in dicukupkan so alone. Hopefully this article there manfa'atnya.
