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I composited a small sculpture onto a styled tabletop photo but the shadow looks wrong and the gallery asked for a lifestyle mockup by end of day. I’m still learning shadow work and I don’t want the piece to float or read fake. Tell me which shadow properties to match first and a quick reliable method to ground the sculpture realistically without hours of dodge and burn.
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Decide — diagnose the stuck moment
+I placed a photographed sculpture onto a tabletop scene and the shadow and contact are off—the…
Decide — diagnose the stuck moment
+I placed a photographed sculpture onto a tabletop scene and the shadow and contact are off—the piece appears to float. The gallery wants a convincing lifestyle mockup today. Tell me which shadow attributes to match first (direction, softness, intensity), how to recreate a believable contact shadow quickly, and give a short workflow for blending color and ambient occlusion so the sculpture reads as part of the scene rather than pasted on.
Pasted it? When the reply comes back, push once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part. — Did this prompt help?
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