Photo Matching in Blender, Part 2: Shadow Catcher | Blender 4.x Tutorial

Video version: scheduled for March 10, 2025

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Hello everyone!

This is the second of three tutorials about a small photo compositing project in Blender.

In the previous tutorial, we saw how to recreate the original photo’s framing and how to position objects using the free fSpy add-on for Blender.

In this tutorial, we’ll see how to use the Shadow Catcher mode to capture the shadows cast by the 3D model onto the Plane and add them to the final render in Compositing.

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