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Shadows and Highlights in Photoshop

Author: Sipi Sagar | Visits: 1296 | Category: Illustration techniques

Shadows and Highlights in Photoshop image Shadows and highlights play a very important role in designing. They help to produce 3d effect in 2d designing software. Shadows and highlights define the depth of an object created which gives the 3d effect. Shadows are the dark portions or the portions where there is absence of light in objects or its surroundings. Highlights are the portions where light is available or where the object has been exposed to higher intensity of light. So using these basics of lighting from physics we are going to produce 3d effect in Photoshop. Continue reading...


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