NightLord
11-23-2005, 06:57 AM
Hi people,
I've been puzzled about this for a while now and I can't seem to find a 'real' solution. It seems to be quite a basic thing so I hope someone here can help me out.
I'm taking a shadow as an example to illustrate my point, please refer to the example I made (just a quick one :D).
The example in the picture has a dropped shadow that I transformed to match the perspective, then applied a mask with a radial gradient to make it fade. Close to the object the shadow must be sharp, farther away it needs to be blurry.
I imagine that to achieve this, some type of gradient applied to a filter would be perfect, like a mask, but then masking not the opacity but the actual amount of blur.
After some experiments I came up with a path in line with the shadow (see example), that I stroke with the blur tool (with simulate pressure on). After about 20 times, it seems to do start to do the job, buit it is surely NOT really what I wanted to do. It is clumsy and a rather imperfect way of doing it. Besides, the blur tool is just not strong enough for this, and when a larger picture is involved this method is useless.
Does anyone know how to do this properly? I used this shadow as an example, but this would allow beautiful effects when done with other filters. :)))
Thanks in advance!
/NL
I've been puzzled about this for a while now and I can't seem to find a 'real' solution. It seems to be quite a basic thing so I hope someone here can help me out.
I'm taking a shadow as an example to illustrate my point, please refer to the example I made (just a quick one :D).
The example in the picture has a dropped shadow that I transformed to match the perspective, then applied a mask with a radial gradient to make it fade. Close to the object the shadow must be sharp, farther away it needs to be blurry.
I imagine that to achieve this, some type of gradient applied to a filter would be perfect, like a mask, but then masking not the opacity but the actual amount of blur.
After some experiments I came up with a path in line with the shadow (see example), that I stroke with the blur tool (with simulate pressure on). After about 20 times, it seems to do start to do the job, buit it is surely NOT really what I wanted to do. It is clumsy and a rather imperfect way of doing it. Besides, the blur tool is just not strong enough for this, and when a larger picture is involved this method is useless.
Does anyone know how to do this properly? I used this shadow as an example, but this would allow beautiful effects when done with other filters. :)))
Thanks in advance!
/NL