Re: Brown Univ Web Page

Ted--

If you download the picture, you'll see that it consists of the photograph,
a shadow, and a white background. This can be done with various
applications, and is easily done with Photoshop plus Extensis PhotoTools
(which is a Photoshop plug-in available from Extensis,
http://www.extensis.com.)

1.In Photoshop, create a white background of the appropriate size (larger
than the photo with shadow).

2.Open the photo in Photoshop. You now have two windows: one with a white
background, and another with the photo.

3. Drag the photo onto the white background. This will create a second
layer: one with the white background, and one with the photo. The photo is
placed in the upper left corner so that the extra white background pixels
are on the right side and bottom side of the photo, where the shadow will
go.

4. Working in the photo layer, use the Extensis PhotoTools module,
PhotoCastShadow, which gives you control over the shadow's size, direction,
color, opacity, etc.. You now have a Photoshop image of a photo, with a
cast shadow, on a white background.

5. Save a copy of this composite as a jpeg image for the web, and...

...voila!

--Jeff





>Take a loot at the pic on the Brown univ web page (www.brown.edu). See how it
>has a shadow? does anyone know how they did that??
>
>thanks.
>
>ted

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