: Photo Pop out or Stand out in front of background could someone tell me how I would make a photo standout or popout in front of a background, I have corel x3 and adobe photoshop 5.0 Thank

@Sarah814

This is a quess: You need a "Drop Shadow".

It creates the illusion which you probably want. An object or image seems to hover over the background.

An example in Photoshop:



Here a black, but blurred rectangle is added as a layer (=Shadow) between the flying object and the background.

That rectangle was actually a copy of the flying object, but turned to black with the levels control, shifted a little aside with the arrow tool and finally the opacity of the layer was reduced to make the shadow a little lighter.

The flying object has got a little contrast boost to make it different than the background.

Drop shadow is available in many programs as effect - no messing with blurring and extra layers. In Photoshop it's available as a layer style (= add the drop shadow to a layer).

Important: Several objects appear to have different hovering altitudes if they have different drop shadows. The apparent distance depends also on


contrast
color saturation
zooming (if there's something to compare)


There's surely at least a hundred tutorials available. Search for Drop Shadow!

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