I’ve found a quick and easy way to get perfect circles on the first time. Imagine the elliptical tool is creating a square around your circle, with one corner being on the original point you clicked, and the opposite corner being your mouse pointer. If you had a way to make a perfect square around the circular object, you could just click in one corner of this square, and move your mouse to the opposite corner, and the circle produced would perfectly select the circular object. An easy way to make this happen is to click and drag a guide line down from the top ruler to the top of the circle. Click and drag a guide line from the ruler on the left to the right side of the circle. Then all you have to do is click in the corner you’ve just made with two guidelines, and drag with the elliptical tool.
GREAT FOR PRACTICING HI MYSELF RONY AN VFX AND 3D CGI STUDENT FROM KOLKATA INDIA ....PLEASE ALSO MAKE HOW TO GRUNGE TEXTURE MAP IN PS ALSO FLOOD DESTRUCTION MAP IN MAP ALSO BUMP MAP NORMAL MAP TUTS ALSO ALPHA MAP GENERATE IN PS THAT MATTERS FOR EVERY 3D AND VFX ARTIST AS WE ALL KNOW ADOBE PS IS THE MOTHER OF VFX COMPOSITING
I gotta tell you, Man, I sincerely believe that you know more about Photoshop than the people at Adobe...I'm serious! They could learn from YOU! Your vids are THE BEST.
Adobe has always had the worst help :-( It always seems to assume that you know how to do what you want to learn how to do. And I'm talking about for over a decade.
If you're familiar with Photoshop, tutorial starts at 6:20 (before that, it's just basic selection, duplicating layers, etc). Another AMAZING video tutorial!!!
"Isn't that interesting?" should be your catchphrase! You are great, I'm few years into photoshop but you are really enlightning on so many levels, thanks!
Thank you so much! I love when you said "Where do we start a selection? We don't know." I've thought this for far too long, but know I know how to handle this! I always come away from your videos with much more than I was hoping for!
I've been at my new graphic designing job for a month and at first I was terrified, but after watching your videos every single morning before work, I feel like I've learned and improved so much, and I've had so much fun doing so. Thank you so much for all you do Unmesh! There's so much to learn and you make it a breeze and a true pleasure.
Same here! I'm joining a graphic design internship from today-it's 2.5 hours from now actually!-and I'm scared as well. I've a feeling I'm gonna need to add drop shadows a lot at the workplace so I'm watching this video. I followed what Unmesh is doing and I did it pretty well! This channel is a godsend!
You are a wonderful teacher. I love how you not only show what to do, but also explain WHY things are done that way. That helps people to actually understand the program so much better. Keep up the great work. Some of the very best tutorials I've ever seen.
I'm joining a graphic design internship from today-it's 2.5 hours from now actually!-and I'm scared a lot. I've a feeling I'm gonna need to add drop shadows a lot at the workplace so I'm watching this video. I followed what Unmesh is doing and I did it pretty well! This channel is a godsend!
Bro... without fail EVERY single time I have a question about something, one of your videos explains it perfectly. You are truly a master of your craft and I’m a HUGE fan. I know you hear this ALL the time, but still couldn’t help but reiterate how phenomenal you are!! Keep making us better, we need you!!
bruh I've been using photoshop as hobby for like 10+ years and ended up on this video by pure chance, and your "alt+click between layers" changed my photoshop usage forever haha
I can watch anyone of your videos 20 times each and I still learn something new. Amazing teacher you are! Thanks for sharing your knowledge, it feels like I'm taking a college course from viewing your channel.
After browsing through a lots and lots of websites and youtube channels I've found you. oh god.. where were u man?!! There cannot exist a tutorial that is better than PIXIMPERFECT!! Thanks a bunch
You just saved me!!! I was just about to put an order into Fiverr to have someone add shadows to my tumbler mockups to make them look more realistic and before I hit enter I decided to do a search and found you! Thanks for the AWESOME lesson!
I do a lot of 3D architectural visualizations and add people to the image. creating realistic shadows to the people (depending on the lighting situation) is always a bit cumbersome and time consuming. This tutorial really helps to speed up things and bring more quality into it. Huge thanks.
Can't believe I didn't know some of this after 15 years of Photoshop. You just blew my mind... again! lol You make mastering this beast of a program look too easy! That's my only complaint
love ur tuts. not just tuts, they are complete guide. u teach what and how to do it. and the best part of it, which no other tut has, u tell us why it is done. so we can apply the skill to different situations.
Great video, in this tutorial you have a lot of useful things to learn, not only shadows. The way you explaining things are really simple. Thank you man!
One creates a nice image, adds some cool styles with a great drop shadow... but when it's flattened, the great shadow effect is gone. But no longer, thanks to this tutorial! Thanks a million.
That space bar trick is going to save me so many headaches! I always struggles with making the right circles at the right places. Absolutely easy trick!
Thank you so much man,.. Very helpful since im only using youtube tutorials for me to learn... Great job, the turorial is pretty much clear and easy to follow... I Salute you man... mors here from the Philippines 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Your tutorials are very good. The tips and tricks you explain are always useful and, what's also important, they are explained in a very professional way. The audio is good, you show what you do while you're on screen, you have a very nice voice and the tone is very motivational and patient. Excellent work! Keep at it!
Quick tip for where to start making a selection for this ball or any other objects like this: You can drag one guide from top ruler to the top edge of the ball, and drag another guide from left to the left edge of the ball. So you can start making selection from the intersection point of two guides (which is around the top-left corner of the ball).
Amazing video, I found that with more simple shapes you can just copy it, paste it, change the opacity, and configure the position of it to make it appear as a shadow. Worked for me but nothing compared to anything you do, keep up the good work map
Thanks for this - it's such a simple trick when you know how! I know I will use this a lot, especially after you explained it so well. Just one thing - manipulating a selection is much easier than you made it look. You can move a selection just using the arrow keys, and manipulate it with 'Transform Selection' (resize, distort, rotate, move, etc).
Oh, I dont know if this is already mentioned, but in case you dont know, the selection of the circle starts at the corner of the square containing the circle selection. So whenever I need to make a circle selection of something I always use the RULER tool and then mark 2 guide lines touching the ball. Then start the mouse at the cross of the 2 lines.
What I do is make guides at the edges of the ball, (top, right, bottom, left) creating a square guide. Now, hold shift while at circular selection tool. Drag and point cursor on any corner of the guides until you reach the opposite end of the guide, diagonally. Now you have a perfect circular selection of an object. Modify selection and contract the selection a bit.
Hi Anmesh! You are an amazing instructor: I have learned so much from your tutorials! May be I can contribute with a smal suggestion when it comes to "finding the (exact) starting point for a circular selection? Drag four guides and create a square which is TANGENT to the ball. Then pick the circular markee tool and start dragging a circle from (exactly) the left up corner to (exactly) the right down corner... You don't even need to hold the Shift key.... geometry does the job!😄😄😁☀️☀️☀️ I hope this is worth sharing! Thank you again for the huge amount of useful information thet you make easily available!
Hello, I'm from Brazil and I can understand you perfectly, your teaching is great, I'm watching this video to add shade to a mockup, please make a video teaching us to make a realistic mock up will be awesome!
Seriously! Very very helpful for 2-3 weeks am trying how to add shadow realistic.. when i saw your vedio i learned ! Thank you very much....❤️ Make some vedio of after effects!
Thank you! very clear and easy.... Ive been struggling with this forever and finally an approach that makes sense.... very smart guy and really appreciate it
that's an interesting way to use the eclipse tool. I've always used guides and dragged on to the top of the circle and one to the left of the circle, then used the top left point where they meet for the point of starting.
Just a little correction regarding the field blur. It's not an overall blur like the gaussian blur, because you can set multiple points and adjust the amount of blur for every point separately. If you're using two points, one with a low amount of blur and the other with a higher amount, the blur between those points will increase constantly from the value of point 1 to the value of point 2. That is pretty much the same effect like you got with the iris blur in your example. But you're not limited to 2 points. Using more points, you can do really weird stuff.
To select a circular object I do something different different. I put two guide lines, a horizontal guide aligned with the top of the object, and a vertical guide aligned with the left side of the object. Then I initially click the elliptical marquee on the intersection of the guides and drag the selection to match the circular object. Then I clear the guides. It's quick and simple.
I have followed 100 tutorials of other channels, and got so disheartened that I couldn't achieve the results. But THIS ONE, i followed right till the end. Everything was clear and easy! Thumbs up from Pakistan! Wanted to ask how do you split that thing into two at the end of layer style (underlying layer) of the drop shadow?
If you use the ruler to drag a guideline from the top until you reach the ball's upper edge and then another one from the left side to the left side edge, drag the circle selection with shift from the top left corner of the guideline until you cover the entire ball. This way you will get an exact selection size as the ball.
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I’ve found a quick and easy way to get perfect circles on the first time.
Imagine the elliptical tool is creating a square around your circle, with one corner being on the original point you clicked, and the opposite corner being your mouse pointer.
If you had a way to make a perfect square around the circular object, you could just click in one corner of this square, and move your mouse to the opposite corner, and the circle produced would perfectly select the circular object.
An easy way to make this happen is to click and drag a guide line down from the top ruler to the top of the circle.
Click and drag a guide line from the ruler on the left to the right side of the circle. Then all you have to do is click in the corner you’ve just made with two guidelines, and drag with the elliptical tool.
GREAT FOR PRACTICING HI MYSELF RONY AN VFX AND 3D CGI STUDENT FROM KOLKATA INDIA ....PLEASE ALSO MAKE HOW TO GRUNGE TEXTURE MAP IN PS ALSO FLOOD DESTRUCTION MAP IN MAP ALSO BUMP MAP NORMAL MAP TUTS ALSO ALPHA MAP GENERATE IN PS THAT MATTERS FOR EVERY 3D AND VFX ARTIST AS WE ALL KNOW ADOBE PS IS THE MOTHER OF VFX COMPOSITING
dont have command on my keyboard. what to do ?
I gotta tell you, Man, I sincerely believe that you know more about Photoshop than the people at Adobe...I'm serious! They could learn from YOU! Your vids are THE BEST.
I do believe that
I know right!
He's very good and very resourceful.
Adobe has always had the worst help :-( It always seems to assume that you know how to do what you want to learn how to do. And I'm talking about for over a decade.
He teaches in the most clear and concise way. Not boring.
If you're familiar with Photoshop, tutorial starts at 6:20 (before that, it's just basic selection, duplicating layers, etc).
Another AMAZING video tutorial!!!
Press and hold spacebar to move a selection just changed my life
I came here to learn one thing and i learned at least 20. Man you really rock, congratulations and thanks a lot for all of these great tips
Lol for real, I had to take notes!
"Isn't that interesting?" should be your catchphrase!
You are great, I'm few years into photoshop but you are really enlightning on so many levels, thanks!
Thank you so much! I love when you said "Where do we start a selection? We don't know." I've thought this for far too long, but know I know how to handle this! I always come away from your videos with much more than I was hoping for!
I've been working with PS for decades, yet every time I hear you say, "Without any further ado..." I know I'm about to learn something wonderful!
I've been at my new graphic designing job for a month and at first I was terrified, but after watching your videos every single morning before work, I feel like I've learned and improved so much, and I've had so much fun doing so. Thank you so much for all you do Unmesh! There's so much to learn and you make it a breeze and a true pleasure.
Same here!
I'm joining a graphic design internship from today-it's 2.5 hours from now actually!-and I'm scared as well. I've a feeling I'm gonna need to add drop shadows a lot at the workplace so I'm watching this video.
I followed what Unmesh is doing and I did it pretty well!
This channel is a godsend!
Currently at my internship and even throughout graduation this channel was a life saver learnt more here than at college
I just saw this video from 7 years ago, it is amazing how you have evolved and the content keeps being amazing. Thanks for your help.
You Are Photoshop Hero
You are a wonderful teacher. I love how you not only show what to do, but also explain WHY things are done that way. That helps people to actually understand the program so much better. Keep up the great work. Some of the very best tutorials I've ever seen.
you have the potential to be one of the best PS tutor....
If you´re able to teach PS to an old analog Dino -72 years old like me - its because you´re a hell of ´teacher!!! Congrats once again!!!
I'm joining a graphic design internship from today-it's 2.5 hours from now actually!-and I'm scared a lot. I've a feeling I'm gonna need to add drop shadows a lot at the workplace so I'm watching this video.
I followed what Unmesh is doing and I did it pretty well!
This channel is a godsend!
Bro... without fail EVERY single time I have a question about something, one of your videos explains it perfectly. You are truly a master of your craft and I’m a HUGE fan. I know you hear this ALL the time, but still couldn’t help but reiterate how phenomenal you are!! Keep making us better, we need you!!
bruh I've been using photoshop as hobby for like 10+ years and ended up on this video by pure chance, and your "alt+click between layers" changed my photoshop usage forever haha
That one part when you separate the drop shadow from the layer 😳 I didn't know that part.. Another technique earned 😁
I can watch anyone of your videos 20 times each and I still learn something new. Amazing teacher you are! Thanks for sharing your knowledge, it feels like I'm taking a college course from viewing your channel.
I always wish there was something bigger than just a "like" button for your videos! :)
Same here .... I love this guy😍
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After browsing through a lots and lots of websites and youtube channels I've found you. oh god.. where were u man?!!
There cannot exist a tutorial that is better than PIXIMPERFECT!! Thanks a bunch
I think this might be the best channel to learn Photoshop on TH-cam. And Umesh is outstandingly awesome at it. Great work guys.
I've been using photoshop over 15 years but you're god of photoshop! never knew we could detach shadow :D
You just saved me!!! I was just about to put an order into Fiverr to have someone add shadows to my tumbler mockups to make them look more realistic and before I hit enter I decided to do a search and found you! Thanks for the AWESOME lesson!
I do a lot of 3D architectural visualizations and add people to the image. creating realistic shadows to the people (depending on the lighting situation) is always a bit cumbersome and time consuming. This tutorial really helps to speed up things and bring more quality into it. Huge thanks.
You're such a great teacher. By far the best Photoshop teacher I've come across on YT.
Again you're the best photoshop tutor on the web, thank you Unmesh!
I swear ... this is the best PS channel on youtube
Can't believe I didn't know some of this after 15 years of Photoshop. You just blew my mind... again! lol
You make mastering this beast of a program look too easy! That's my only complaint
god bless this guy for teaching all the knowledge he knows about photoshop.
I just love how you explain things! I always learn so much by just watching one video of yours. You're awesome, man!
I only watch your videos around Christmastime when I'm making Christmas cards, but your videos have been so so helpful through the years!
These videos are seriously the BEST, and EASIEST way to understand the why and how. Amazing work!
Someone who invested a lot of hours in studying the tools of photoshop. Only then you could attain this potential. Hats OFF!!
Best photoshop teacher I have come across. God bless
love ur tuts. not just tuts, they are complete guide. u teach what and how to do it. and the best part of it, which no other tut has, u tell us why it is done. so we can apply the skill to different situations.
very few Indian tutorials are this high quality and easy to understand and well explained. Subscribed!
These photoshop tutorials are great but I also just love him so much.
Great video, in this tutorial you have a lot of useful things to learn, not only shadows.
The way you explaining things are really simple. Thank you man!
One creates a nice image, adds some cool styles with a great drop shadow... but when it's flattened, the great shadow effect is gone.
But no longer, thanks to this tutorial! Thanks a million.
While this is one of his older Videos, still extremely helpful, thankyou!
This is exactly what I was looking for! Love the clarity with your tutorials.
That space bar trick is going to save me so many headaches!
I always struggles with making the right circles at the right places.
Absolutely easy trick!
Thank you so much man,.. Very helpful since im only using youtube tutorials for me to learn... Great job, the turorial is pretty much clear and easy to follow... I Salute you man... mors here from the Philippines 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
This is the only PSD channel I follow. You're an excellent teacher!
Your tutorials are very good. The tips and tricks you explain are always useful and, what's also important, they are explained in a very professional way. The audio is good, you show what you do while you're on screen, you have a very nice voice and the tone is very motivational and patient.
Excellent work! Keep at it!
Best teacher ever, thank you
I know people have said that before, but you are AMAZING! Love your videos. Thank you for sharing your incredible knowledge with us
Man!! there is no words to describe you.
I can't control my self to like and comment this video. Don't stop helping us boss.
Love from Bangladesh ^_^
Thanks Unmesh bro for providing free photoshop tutorials!
Quick tip for where to start making a selection for this ball or any other objects like this: You can drag one guide from top ruler to the top edge of the ball, and drag another guide from left to the left edge of the ball. So you can start making selection from the intersection point of two guides (which is around the top-left corner of the ball).
Exactly what I figured out to do as well! Nice!
Excellent tutorial, Unmesh. Thank you!!! Never would have thought about changing the shadow in this way.
Amazing video, I found that with more simple shapes you can just copy it, paste it, change the opacity, and configure the position of it to make it appear as a shadow. Worked for me but nothing compared to anything you do, keep up the good work map
To reposition while selecting a perfect circle, hold spacebar while holding shift and left mouse button. Now i know! 😀
Your the Best Photoshop Teacher. I Love your videos. 😍
Great video! Holding spacebar to move an active selection was the hidden little gem, thanks!
couldn't find the better explained version :) cheers bro
The Man - a remarkable teacher!
Hi, can you also make a video or example for indoor portrait to outdoor with realistic shadow??
Still actual. Thx mate. and Congratulations on the pedagogic voice and content. U the man!
This helped a lot. I was uncertain how to get shadows that were not the exact same shape as the object. Thanks!
Thanks for this - it's such a simple trick when you know how! I know I will use this a lot, especially after you explained it so well.
Just one thing - manipulating a selection is much easier than you made it look. You can move a selection just using the arrow keys, and manipulate it with 'Transform Selection' (resize, distort, rotate, move, etc).
0:24 Genius never woulda thought
Oh, I dont know if this is already mentioned, but in case you dont know, the selection of the circle starts at the corner of the square containing the circle selection. So whenever I need to make a circle selection of something I always use the RULER tool and then mark 2 guide lines touching the ball. Then start the mouse at the cross of the 2 lines.
This is really an amazing video 🔥🔥🔥🔥🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Watching After 4 years But Still Beating all Stuff on TH-cam🔥🔥
just love your enthusiasm. Great tutorial. Thank you.
What I do is make guides at the edges of the ball, (top, right, bottom, left) creating a square guide. Now, hold shift while at circular selection tool. Drag and point cursor on any corner of the guides until you reach the opposite end of the guide, diagonally. Now you have a perfect circular selection of an object. Modify selection and contract the selection a bit.
Awesome tutorial!! Thank you for the clarity in communication. It was easy to follow and extremely helpful! I'm a subscriber for life! God Bless you!
In my view, u r the best teacher....
Every video you create is always super helpful!! Thank you!
ගොඩාක් ස්තූතියි අයියේ ඇත්තටම හොදටම කියල දෙන්නෙ ඔයා විතරයී, දාස් ගනන් දීල පන්ති වලට ගිහින් ඉබෙන ගන්න ඔනි නෑ අයියා නිසා ගිඩාක් ආදරෙයී 😘😘😘😘
Hi Anmesh!
You are an amazing instructor: I have learned so much from your tutorials!
May be I can contribute with a smal suggestion when it comes to "finding the (exact) starting point for a circular selection?
Drag four guides and create a square which is TANGENT to the ball.
Then pick the circular markee tool and start dragging a circle from (exactly) the left up corner to (exactly) the right down corner...
You don't even need to hold the Shift key.... geometry does the job!😄😄😁☀️☀️☀️
I hope this is worth sharing!
Thank you again for the huge amount of useful information thet you make easily available!
Now I know how to create realistic drop shadows! Thanks, Unmesh!!
Excellent tuto. learnt loads. I'm using this for Interior Design renderings of furniture. thanks
THANKS! I`ve been looking for this tutorial for so many time
Hello, I'm from Brazil and I can understand you perfectly, your teaching is great, I'm watching this video to add shade to a mockup, please make a video teaching us to make a realistic mock up will be awesome!
Seriously! Very very helpful for 2-3 weeks am trying how to add shadow realistic.. when i saw your vedio i learned !
Thank you very much....❤️
Make some vedio of after effects!
You give many tips in one video, kudos to you bro!
Thank you! very clear and easy.... Ive been struggling with this forever and finally an approach that makes sense.... very smart guy and really appreciate it
You make the best tutorials congratulations
that's an interesting way to use the eclipse tool. I've always used guides and dragged on to the top of the circle and one to the left of the circle, then used the top left point where they meet for the point of starting.
Just a little correction regarding the field blur. It's not an overall blur like the gaussian blur, because you can set multiple points and adjust the amount of blur for every point separately. If you're using two points, one with a low amount of blur and the other with a higher amount, the blur between those points will increase constantly from the value of point 1 to the value of point 2. That is pretty much the same effect like you got with the iris blur in your example. But you're not limited to 2 points. Using more points, you can do really weird stuff.
To select a circular object I do something different different. I put two guide lines, a horizontal guide aligned with the top of the object, and a vertical guide aligned with the left side of the object. Then I initially click the elliptical marquee on the intersection of the guides and drag the selection to match the circular object. Then I clear the guides. It's quick and simple.
Fantastic. Great tutorial. As always you have explained it so I can understand why I should do it instead of following a tutorial like a sheep.
This really help beginners a lot thanks sir😃😃
This is really helping, well done, dude! I really like this video. Thanks for the tutorial.
i thought i,m an expert with Photoshop before i watched this video, Thanx man
I have followed 100 tutorials of other channels, and got so disheartened that I couldn't achieve the results. But THIS ONE, i followed right till the end. Everything was clear and easy! Thumbs up from Pakistan! Wanted to ask how do you split that thing into two at the end of layer style (underlying layer) of the drop shadow?
His voice is so calming
You're a great teacher man
If you use the ruler to drag a guideline from the top until you reach the ball's upper edge and then another one from the left side to the left side edge, drag the circle selection with shift from the top left corner of the guideline until you cover the entire ball. This way you will get an exact selection size as the ball.
Simply Awesome buddy. 👍
My first ever comment on your channel.
Always admire you.
You are the first Indian I've ever encountered who admits that he doesn't really know.
Amazing tutorial. Thanks Umesh
I hit the like button before even watching your videos
i just thank you for your efforts .....nice work you are doing .Keep up man.. i Appreciate.
Absolutely fantastic video -- very clear and well presented!
Im from india
And i loves your vdio brother😍😍😍😘😘😘😘