Create Natural Shadow

Create Natural Shadow in Adobe Photoshop — with two ready prompts: the immediate one, and the one that makes it stick. 1 real situation leads here.

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Make a small sculpture's shadow look natural when I place it on a styled tabletop photo for a product listing.

2 ready prompts

Written for the moment this actually comes up.

Execute — do the immediate task

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Place the small sculpture onto the styled tabletop photo and add a natural-looking shadow: place…
Place the small sculpture onto the styled tabletop photo and add a natural-looking shadow: place the subject layer, match scale and perspective, add a shadow layer shaped to the light direction, soften and blur the shadow to match scene, and save a composite JPEG.

Improve — make it easier to accept

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Create a product listing image where the sculpture reads authentic on the styled tabletop: match…
Create a product listing image where the sculpture reads authentic on the styled tabletop: match the subject's scale and vanishing point, sample scene light angle and warmth, paint a shadow with correct softness and opacity, add a faint contact shadow and reflected light on the tabletop, and export a layered PSD plus a flattened JPEG for the listing.

Who does this, and with what

The same task is different work inside a different job.

Craft / Fine ArtistAdobe Photoshop (Drop Shadow / Transform / Brush & Layer Styles)also: Match Sculpture Lightingalso: Composite Object With Shadow

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