shadow help

[dustinwronka]

I am trying to reveal the shadows of my photo in the poster I'm creating on a brick wall. How do I reveal the shadows over the poster to make it look realistic? Any help is greatly appreciated

 

[IamSam]

Hello and welcome.

Have you tried changing the blending mode of the "poster layer"?

 

[dustinwronka]

I have and then it makes look very unrealistic. There is also details in the tree that I want laying over top the poster. I have used displacement, and I have also adjusted the blending options of the poster and text layer.

 

[IamSam]

Is there anyway you can upload or link us to the PSD file?

 

[dustinwronka]

of course. Thank you Sam!

 

[dustinwronka]

here is the psd

 

[dustinwronka]

did you get it sam

 

[IamSam]

Something like this?


I first created a selection of the area and turned off all other layers....


I then created and edited an alpha channel to improve the selection of the tree, it's shadow, and the other shadows....



I applied the alpha channel to a new layer mask.
The shadow masking was too strong so I added a selection of the sign to contain masking.


I then used the Brush Tool and a soft brush with a 1% flow setting set to white to gently lighten the shadows on the layer mask and reveal the sign.


I then added back the edge wear on the sign. I did this very fast, it could use some fine tuning.




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