quiero conseguir los bordes difuminados es esta sombra

[jose luis26445908si1o]

hola tengo un zapato al que le he añadido una sombra. Ahora quiero difuminarla, pero aplico el filtro de desenfoque gausiano y obtengo esto:

Y yo quiero que los bordes salgan mas difuminados y menos definidos, como en esta imagen:

¿como puedo conseguir ese efecto en la sombra?

[Jeff Arola]

Since you have photoshop cs4 you should ask in the Photoshop forum:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem/ct-p/ct-photoshop

[jose luis26445908si1o]

but i have photoshop elements 2022 also.

[Jeff Arola]

I'm not exactly clear on what you want the shadow to look like.

[Jeff Arola]

In photoswhop elements i made the shadow by using a selection of the shoe, filling a layer behind the shoe with black.

Then Image>Transform>Free Transform to put the shadow below the bottom of the shoe. It looks like that's what you already did.

Then i applied Fil;ter>Blur>Gaussian Blur at around 7.6 and lowered the layer opacity to around 65%.

Then i applied a bit of Filter>Blur>Motion Blur at Angle 0 Distance 57

[jose luis26445908si1o]

esta es la imagen que consigo siguiendo tus indicaciones:

Pero, no se por que, si añado una mascara de capa a la capa de la sombra, y luego la elimino si consigo la imagen tal y como la tienes tu. ¿que puede suceder?

[Jeff Arola]

You shouldn't need a layer mask on the Shadow layer.

Can you post a screenshot showing the shoe plus the layers panel?

[jose luis26445908si1o]

Añado un screenshot de la pantalla. La mascara de capa despues de añadirla la puedo borrar. Pero si no la añado no me sale la sombra difuminada.

[Jeff Arola]

Does the orginal image of the shoe have the shoe or a transparent layer or did you have to remove the white background from the shoe image?

[jose luis26445908si1o]

tuve que quitar el fondo (verde) de la imagen del zapato.

[Jeff Arola]

What i did was select the shoe then do a layer via copy to put the shoe on it's own new layer, so no layer masks needed. (Layer>New>Layer via Copy or Ctrl+J (windows) or Cmd+J (mac).

[jose luis26445908si1o]

i did it more or less as you but no success. I take the original image select subject, copy, new document of 1000x1000, paste in the new document,two layer are created (one with white background and another with the shoe). I create the shadow by duplicate layer and fill it with black, free transform, i obtain the shadow, apply the gausian blur, and again i need to add and remove a layer mask.

[Jeff Arola]

The advantage to using photoshop cs4 is you can turn the shadow layer into a smart object and then be able to readjust the transform and blur filters without having to start all over. Double click on the Motion Blur or Gaussian Blur words to readjust.

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/applying-smart-filters.html