Adobe product screen shot(s) reprinted with permission from Adobe Systems Incorporated. Click on the Default Foreground and Background Colors Icon in the Toolbox to set the active colors to the default black and white.Р”В¬opyright 2018 Adobe Systems Incorporated. We could use a solid color but, it will look more realistic if we us a gradient based on two colors such as black and white. Default Foreground and Background Colors Icon.You should now see only the empty selection in the shape of your character.

You will no longer see the character, but he is still there. While still at the Layers Palette, click on the Layer Visibility Icon on the Character layer. We can work better if we hide the character. Click on the New Layer Icon at the bottom of the Layers Palette. To select all of the character, we will reverse the current selection. You can use the default settings for the Magic Wand Tool in the Options bar. This will select everything except the character. Click on the empty area around your character with the Magic Wand Tool. In the example, I named the layer Character. If you haven't done so already, go to the Layers Palette and name the layer that contains the character. But you can use this technique on any object as long as it has a transparent background and is not on the background layer. We will begin with a character of a computer mouse which is on its own layer and has a transparent background. In this tutorial, you will learn one way to do this in Adobe R Photoshop R CS2. One quick and easy way to add realism to cartoon art is to add a perspective shadow to your cartoon characters.

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