PHOTOSHOP® ELEMENTS 3: DOWN & Dirty TRICKS

Photoshop Elements 3 Down & Dirty Tricks184

Reverse Cast Shadow

This shadow effect is widely used in print and on the Web to give the impression that the light source is coming from behind the

object, rather than from the front or the side, as Photoshop Elements shadows are usually applied. Most notably, I saw it on the

logo for the movie The Talented Mr. Ripley.

STEP ONE: Create a new document (the

one here is 8x6" in RGB mode). Click on

the Foreground color swatch at the bot-

tom of the Toolbox and select a color

in the Color Picker that you want to use

for the background of the image. Press

Alt-Backspace to fill the Background layer

with t