Colorize shadow

Forum|Forum|10 months ago
March 29, 2025
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I have a product image of seven bracelets laying on a white background . Each bracelet has a unique stone and all of the bracelets together lay on a light colored background. Each bracelet has created a small shadow from the lights used. I'd like to color(ize) the shadow of each bracelet to be the color of the unique stone in each bracket (still looking like a shadow but carrying the tone of the unique stone). Can anyone suggest an easy way to do this?

Here's what I tried: select the main subject, invert. However this selects the background and I want just the shadows.

I also tried using the color replacement brush but I could not get this to work properly.

Thoughts or ideas?

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

Put shadows on a separate layer.

Add a color adjustment layer to the shadows.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

Leslie Moak Murray

Community Expert

Are the bracelets isolated or on a solid white background? Can you upload the picture? You can colorize a drop shadow but if you want them each to be a different color, I need to see the shot. I might be able to do it.