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Apply AI Shadow effects to a design (Web App)

Learn how to generate shadow effects for your designs with the AI Shadows feature. Web App.

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Written by Craig Wright
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You can add realistic shadow effects to your designs with the AI Shadows feature. It's a quick and easy way to make the objects in your designs look more three-dimensional.

Before image shows a plate viewed from above on a white background with no shadow. After shows the plate with a shadow to one side, making it look more three-dimensional.

Availability

Requires AI credits.


Steps (Web App)

To use the AI Shadows tool to apply shadow effects:

  1. Select the Space you want to work in.

  2. Either:

    • Select AI tools, then select AI Shadows, and upload an image to work with.

    • Create a new design, open it in the the main editor and select AI Shadows.

    • Open an existing design in the main editor and select AI Shadows.

  3. Choose a style of AI Shadow:

    • None - no shadow

    • Soft - a light shadow effect

    • Hard - a strong shadow effect

    • Floating - a shadow below the main object to make it look like it is hovering.

  4. Use Product orientation to change the position of the shadow.

    Important: Photoroom only applies an orientation when the shadow seems plausible based on the image (object, lighting, etc.). If the selected orientation does not seem plausible, it won’t be applied.

    Choose from these options:

    • Auto - auto-generated orientation based on is detected in the image.

    • Upright - shadow is drawn as if the product in the image is standing upright and we are looking at it face-on.

      a plate with food on. The shadow is applied at the bottom so it looks like the plate is stood on one end and the food is defying gravity.


    • Flat - shadow is drawn as if the product is laid flat and we are looking at it from above.

      A plate with food on. The shadow is around the right side of the plate, making it look like it is laid flat on a table.


  5. [Optional] Use the editor to make further changes, such as add text or graphics.

  6. [Optional] Select Download. Enter a name for the download file and then choose the image file format. Select Download to save the design as an image file on your device.

  7. Select Home to exit the editor and save your design in Photoroom.


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