How do I add shading?

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March 8, 2018
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I know this is probably easy for many but as a newbie, I do not even know what to search under to find the answer. I find adding shading in Illustrator very easy but at am at a complete and utter loss to figure out how to do this in Photoshop. i've spent about 4 hours trying to figure this out. Below is what I did in illustrator....but how in photoshop? A youtube would be helpful, explanation, whatever. How can it be so difficult?

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macpawel

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Just use Lasso Tool (L) and simply select area you want to be shadow and use eg. Burn Tool (O) to darker it or just fill (Edit >Fill - F5) it with a little bit darker color.

in some cases you can also use Eliptical Marque (M) to select rounded shape

pawel

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Anonymous

You could try using a clipping mask

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deanreardonAuthor

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Ah...clipping mask. That looks like it would work. I will look that up on youtube to see how that's done.

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Anonymous

Just create a shape with the Shape Tool and choose a colour of choice and then hit CTRL + J to make a copy of the layer, double click on the copied layers thumbnail and just choose a lighter colour and then right click on that layer and choose Create Clipping Mask