Colored Glass shadow
This tutorial was written for ps6, may work with some small adjustments in other ps versions or in psp

For this tutorial you will need my small pack of Heart beads. What? You don't have them? Well go grab them here, it won't cost you a penny! ;)

Make a new document 570X3600 at 300ppi.

Copy heartbead10str.png and paste it on a new layer in this new document you just created.

Duplicate this Beadstring layer, rename it "shadow 1" and with the move tool, move it down by about 20 pixels and to the right by about 15 pixels. Then drag this layer below your "Beadstring" layer.

Usin the magic wand, select the transparent area on the "shadow 1" layer go to select/inverse.

Without deselecting, create a new layer and call it "shadow outline". Go to Edit/Stroke, use the following settings and the color black and click ok.

Now, let's go back to our "shadow 1" layer. you can make the other two layers invisible for now so you can see what you're doing. Using the eraser with a soft brush (size 35 should do), erase the rope between the hearts, no need to be extremely precise.

Go to filter/blur/gaussian blur, put the radius at 9.5 and click ok, you should get this:

Set this layer properties on "Hard light", duplicate the layer and set this layer's properties on "Screen", You should now have something that looks like this:

Now select your "Shadow outline" layer, with the paintbrush tool and a small brush fill the inside of the string with black, you may also want to make the string go all the way to the top of the document, like so:

Then go to filter/blur/gaussian blur with a radius of 8.5 and click ok. Set the layer properties to Multiply.

Make all your layers visible, add a background if you wish, flatten and voilà! A nice colored glass shadow! :)

Small tip: It will look better on a white or light colored background rather then a dark one.

Products in the same line: Beads and beadstrings and Wish upon a star.

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