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Next I needed to add the huge shadow cast by the elephant -- a touch which adds a good dose of realism to the scene. There are many ways to add shadows -- using the Drop Shadow feature is one, but it won't work in this case. This one I had to do freehand.
Again, I looked at the shadows cast by the other objects in the scene -- their direction, color, and blur -- and let them be my guide. The cars shadows are at least twice as long as the height of the cars, so I knew the elephant's shadow was going to extend out of the picture. That's good, as it simplified my work.
On a new layer set to Multiply Blend mode, I painted in the basic shadow of the elephant in deep blue, but the shadow of the trunk and the tusk were more difficult. By experimentation I eventually arrived at a painted outline that looked right.
I was careful not to paint the shadow over the two cars in the shadow, as it darkened them far too much. Instead I individually darkened these cars with the Burn Tool.
Lastly I tweaked the color and brightness of the shadow layer until it matched with the cars shadows. Then added a Gaussian blur to match the shadow blur of the cars.
