How to Make a Perspective Shadow in Paint Shop Pro

A perspective shadow in Paint Shop Pro gives the image depth and distance. Paint Shop Pro is a relatively simple program to use to edit photographs and images because it has built-in filters. Use this program when you want to apply a perspective shadow to your graphic. Follow these instructions to learn how.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. Launch Paint Shop Pro and open your photograph or image. Click on "File" and "Open." Locate your image and click on it. Select "OK."

2. Pick the tool called "Freehand Lasso." It looks just like a lasso. Use the point-to-point method to trace around the graphic.

3. Make a paint brush of the graphic by clicking on the magic wand and then clicking the background of it. This makes dotted black lines around the outside of the image and the main character of the picture. Click on "Selections" and "Invert" then click on your paintbrush tool and open the tool option box. Open the brush tip menu, pick "Custom" then "Create."

4. Select the graphic then click on "Selections," "Modify" and "Contract." Contract the selections by 1 pixel then copy the selection. Click on "Selections" and "Select None." Paste the graphic over the original one making a new layer by clicking on "Edit," "Paste" and "As New Layer."

5. Add the New Layer by clicking "Layers" and "Add New Raster Layer." Pick "Paint Brush Tool" then open "Toggle Options Window." Select your custom paint brush that you made.

6. Convert the foreground and background colors to black with 100 percent opacity. Crop the size to fit your image. Click on the graphic as many times as necessary to make a complete copy on the canvas. Skew your image as desired by clicking on "Effects," "Geometric Effects" and "Skew."

7. Open the toggle layer palette and move layer 2 under layer 1. Merge all the layers and save the file. Your perspective shadow is complete.