Realistic Shadows

This is my realistic shadows project. I never had to deal with pixel fringe, because I used the magnetic lasso tool to take out the image from a background. I used the transform tool to make the shadow line up with the phone itself. I then used the gradient (black to transparent) to put it backwards and make it look like it was casting a shadow.

Spheres

Here are my two spheres! My Illustrator sphere is on the top, with my photoshop sphere below it, respectively. They both turned out well, in my opinion. Illustrator let me get a very nice bright effect, but Photoshop gave a really nice yet subtle look. I found that for doing something like this then I would prefer Illustrator. It is a bit more user friendly when creating original things as opposed to Photoshop which is better for editing something.