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Create Cast Shadow

Create a believable cast shadow for the placed character: duplicate the figure, transform to ground-plane perspective,…

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AExecute — “help me do it”Create a believable cast shadow for the placed character: duplicate the figure, transform to…+
Create a believable cast shadow for the placed character: duplicate the figure, transform to ground-plane perspective, blur and lower opacity, match shadow color to scene ambient, and place the shadow on its own layer beneath the character.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed.
BImprove — “do it better”Anchor the character so the creative director won't call it out — build the shadow from a…+
Anchor the character so the creative director won't call it out — build the shadow from a flattened silhouette, distort into perspective to match ground plane, apply motion or gaussian blur and use multiply with scene-appropriate color sampled from contact shadow areas, add a faint ground contact smear, and include a 'shadow_settings' layer for quick adjustments.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed.

The real tasks

1 of them
Create a believable cast shadow for a character placed on a new ground plane so it feels anchored.

Who does this

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Illustrator / Digital Artist

Questions people ask

honest answers

Because you rarely think 'I want the redaction tool'. You think 'I have to share this without leaking the client's details'. Start from the need, and the feature finds you.

Real. Every job here was drawn from what people in real roles were actually seen doing in Photoshop — not a feature checklist.

No. Each page gives you a ready prompt you can paste into an AI assistant, plus the plain steps to do it yourself. Start with either — the goal is the finished job, not the tool.