This is Shadowify 2, a plugin for
creating more realistic shadows and Blur in Adobe Photoshop.
Actually, this is just the entry panel giving you quick access to six individual
panels, each one dedicated to one specific use case
Well, let's start with the first one Drop Shadows.
Now, you might be wondering why you even need a plugin for this,
since Photoshop already has this in-built drop shadow effect.
But as I increase the distance here, you can see it just looks like the layers floating.
In comparison, this is how it looks like with the plug in
and it gives you a smooth drop shadow effect right away.
You can then play around with these settings here,
like the angle or distance and the shadow gets updated immediately.
Now, if I turn off the blur completely, you can even see how the panel is working.
Blending together multiple individual drop shadows.
Every panel also has this preset section on top.
This allows you to save your favorite settings for later use.
For example, this long blue shadow preset here
gets immediately applied once I click on it.
Next up, there's a panel for creating these flat shadows
you are often used for icon design
or illustrations and one specific feature that I wanted to point out
is the Shadow Direction Global Light Option.
If you turn this on, you can actually control
the shadow direction of multiple shadows at once.
There's also a panel specifically for cards.
And cards, and papers are quite unique in terms of their shadow
because it gets quite complex sometimes due to their bending property.
And the panel I've built for
this looks like that if I click Create Shadow,
it starts quite basic with just a "Path Blur" effect
that you can control here or turn or toggle on or off.
And the core of this panel is the warp transform input.
And I've built this to directly manipulate the transformation
of the layer, which can give you quite unique effects. You
can even make it softer by
turning on this "Edge Blur" option with additional options below this
Here are two more examples
of what you can achieve with this warp input.
And there's also a panel for creating Front View
Perspective Shadows, which looks like this.
Once again, you can play around with all the settings
like angle, distance, and so on.
And if this looks a bit too hard it might look okay for cartoon maybe.
But if you want to smoothen it out, you can toggle on this vertical blur.
Or maybe a fade effects to a smoothly fade out the shadow
There are two more panels for specific blur effects.
First one called "Smart Filter Blur", which lets
you rate a blur towards a specific direction
can also control the
end or the start or end point here, with these sliders.
So as you can see, it gets a bit sharper at the end
and the last panel is called Selective Blur, which gives you similar results to the previous one.
But you can exclude one specific area or selection from the Blur.
If I now hit apply, Blur can see the Blur gets applied
outside of the box that I draw earlier.
All right.
Thank you for watching this very quick overview of Shadowify 2.
See you next time.