On various sites, in photo banks, sets of photo clips, there are often photographs of objects from which no shadow falls. It is difficult to take such a photo only with the help of a camera, since the absence of a shadow requires illumination of the subject from all sides. For the complete disappearance of the shadow from the picture, its graphic editing is required. You can remove the shadow on any photo in Photoshop, spending just a few minutes on image processing.
It is necessary
- - "Photoshop" program
- - a photo where you need to remove the shadow
Instructions
Step 1
Select the shadow in the image with the Pen tool. To edit the resulting path, use the Pen + tool, increasing the number of anchor points by clicking on the stroke line and transforming the path by moving them. Then, without removing the cursor from the stroke line, click on the right mouse button and select "Form Selection". Mark the feathering area equal to 0 pixels and put a tick in the “Anti-aliasing” box in order to make the selection as precise as possible.
Step 2
Delete the selection by clicking the Delete button. Remove the selection with the command "Selection - Deselect".
Step 3
If the background of the image is a solid color, but not white, then click on the background with the Eyedropper tool so that the desired color appears in the toolbar. Select the Paint Bucket tool and fill with the chosen color where the shadow was. If for some reason remnants of shadows are visible near the object, then zoom in on the image using the Loupe tool and, using a hard brush of a suitable size, paint over the unnecessary areas with the background color. You can also use the Straight Lasso tool to remove the remaining portions of the shadow by selecting the parts of the picture that need to be adjusted and filling them with the background color using the Edit-Fill command.
Step 4
If the background of the image is non-uniform and repetitive, then to restore the area where the shadow was, create a new layer below the image layer. Rename the top layer any name and delete the white area in place of the former shadow with the Magic Wand Tool. Clone the appropriate area of the background with the Clone Stamp tool. On the bottom layer, stamp the prints so that they show through the "cut out" area of the top layer.
Step 5
If the background of the image is complex and cannot be restored with the Clone Stamp tool, select the entire subject with the Pen tool and use the Select-Invert command. After this command, not the picture itself will be selected, but the background around it. Remove the background by clicking the Delete button.
