Photoshop at the Pro Level Part 2

3. ADDING A SHADOW

There was no shadow at all in the photo of the orange slice. But if you look at the original apple, you can see that there was a shadow on the apple. So I had to transfer that to the orange. I used the Pen tool to draw a path where I wanted the shadow to be, and converted it to a selection. Then I used brightness and contrast in the Multiply Blend mode to darken it. Because the shadow wouldn’t have a hard edge in reality, I went into Quick Mask mode and drew a quick selection around the top side, and blurred it with Gaussian Blur. Then I pulled down the layer’s opacity until the shadow looked natural. I chose to make the shadow fall a little lower than the one in the original apple photo, simply because it worked better aesthetically.