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Colorize shadow

Community Beginner ,
Mar 29, 2025 Mar 29, 2025

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?

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Community Expert ,
Mar 29, 2025 Mar 29, 2025

Is this a Photoshop question?

If so, I can move this to the Photoshop forum for you.

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Mar 29, 2025 Mar 29, 2025

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Your one previous discussion is in Lightroom... is this a Lightroom question?

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Community Expert ,
Mar 29, 2025 Mar 29, 2025

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.

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Mar 30, 2025 Mar 30, 2025
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Put shadows on a separate layer.  

Add a color adjustment layer to the shadows.

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User, Community Expert & Moderator
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