Drop shadow on image renders text also

pages with transparency icon in the page panel will render also text on the page; a regular font-type gets a bold-presentation. how can be prevent this misrepresentation. i tried a lot of things, but only cancelling the dropshadow-effect of the image shows the text proper.

This is a well-known issue for type on pages with transparency when viewing on screen or printing to low-resolution devices. The only way to make all the text look the same under those conditions is to add transparency to all pages. Press output is generally not affected.

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Black drop shadow bleeding onto white text during printing (but looks fine on screen)

For my business card design I have white text overlapping an area of very white grey- causing readability issues (insufficient contrast). It looks great apart from this one problem, so I still want to keep my white text and light background and fix it by separating the text and background with a darker drop shadow..
First, I added a black drop shadow to the text- but this was not enough to increase readability (text still looked faded on background as drop shadow was too subtle at 85% opacity, 0.04" blur) so I added a drop shadow to my drop shadow (100% opacity, 0.02" blur + 18% opacity, 0.02" blur). This produced a heavier drop shadow effect for my text as desired but, for some reason, the text came out slightly grey in print (offset run). It seems the drop shadow somehow got printed over the text itself to some extent- turning the white text somewhat grey (and so not looking as clean as intended).
How could this dropshadow bleed into the text happen? Is it to do with the fact I added a drop shadow to my drop shadow? I would have thought that, even then, the text should entirely overlap all of the drop shadow as the text is the top layer in the group.
What can I do to ensure that drop shadow does not print over text in any way in future? Do I have to stick to only one layer of dropshadow-or is there something else I'm missing?

One way this could happen is if the white fill of your text was not with 100% opacity.
Also, do you see a whiter place than your text on your business card? It could be the color of the paper if you are comparing with the white of the image on screen without proper color management.

Unwanted drop shadow ghost images in prints....Anybody?

I am using photoshop to color seperate using the magic wand tool. I seperate about 4 colors and every time I print each layer of color, on the actual print there is random drop shadows/ghost images of the print. I made new images and drag each layer sepratley, flatten the image, erase everything around the image, and when I print it still happends, even when there is absolutley no other pixels on the image. This is very challenging. I hope someone can give me some advice. This does not happen with other 1 layer images, it only seems to happen when I seperate colors. Thank you for your time.

No, unfortunately I can’t help You there.
In the company I work at I needn’t concern myself with the printers and the RIP much because they are one of my colleagues responsibility.
But if a file is definitely OK and the output is not, it seems natural to me to assume that the error has happened further downstream and that would seem to leave the printer and the RIP.
Have You tried printing the images from a different program like Indesign or Acrobat?

Drop shadow for images

I've done this easily in Photoshop CS3 but now I'm trying to teach people with Elements 6 or 7 how to add a drop shadow to their images. The help menu seems to think that I would add it only to text.
When I follow the procedure with an image open, nothing happens.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
Mary Lou

Mary Lou,
To add a drop shadow to the entire picture:
1. Duplicate the picture layer.
2. Increase the canvas size. The duplicate layer will be on transparent background.
3. Apply the Drop Shadows Layer Style. To change the default shadow, open the Style Settings and adjust the various settings.
http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1bxVVZCr9XHbMWpqGLbFyTNkpdVsma1
You can also create a drop shadow not using the layer style:
1. Duplicate the picture layer and increase canvas as above.
2. Ctrl-click the duplicate layer to select it.
3. Create a new layer below the duplicate layer and fill with black.
4. Use the Move tool to position the black layer where you want the shadow to be.
5. Soften the edges of the black layer using a Gaussian Blur.
http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1fUAf62zQNztHfAbEOjTg8DSGaltBl0
In both methods you can lighten the shadow by reducing the layer's Opacity, or darken the shadow by duplicating the layer.
Also note that when you use the Drop Shadows Layer Style, when the Style Settings is open you can use the mouse to drag the shadow wherever you want, even totally off the object (unlike with the Shadow Distance slider).

Illustrator CS5 drop shadow - blur not rendering correctly

I just got a new computer and have installed Illustrator on it. This is my first time using the program on this computer. I created this file on my old computer in Illustrator. When opening it today, in the newly installed version of CS5, the drop shadow blur effect is not rendering properly. However, as you can see in the screenshot, one of the words has a proper blur. Everything else does not! Anyone know what to do, short of re-installing the whole program? Red arrow is the problem drop shadow. Purple arrow is the drop shadow that blurred correctly.

Well it must be something wrong on this new computer, I can't figure out what. Whenever I do a new iteration of a drop shadow it doesn't render the blur. For example, the one below- the first "Tune in" is from the original document, created on my other computer. The second "Tune in" is what happens when I try to alter it in any way, including deleting the old drop shadow and adding a new one.

Drop shadow affects image it's applied to

I have a grayscale image in a box and when I apply a drop shadow to the box the image goes visibly lighter, -- loses contrast etc.
I switched to High Quality Display to see if it was just some quirk with Typical Display but there was no change, I then printed out a copy on the printer with and without the drop shadow and the version with the drop shadow printed lighter as well.
What the...?
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TIA,
Geoff

>Change your transparency blend space to RGB.
If you want to maintain the gray values at output (the grayscale outputs to the black plate) you can't set the blend space to RGB. If a grayscale has transparency applied and the blend space is RGB it effectively becomes an RGB object and would need to be separated to 4-color at output or export to CMYK.
The reason for the differing previews is that ID has no grayscale color management or spacea grayscale's preview is either managed as an RGB or CMYK object. If you place a flattened grayscale with Overprint and Separation Preview turned off, the grayscale previews as if it were a 2.2 gamma RGB object. You can see this if you screen capture a placed grayscale in ID and then open the original and assign it a 2.2 gamma grayscale profile in PS. The preview of the grayscale and screen capture will be identical.
Once you turn on Overprint or Separation Preview the grayscale is previewed as if were a CMYK object with the grayscale on the black plate. In this case the preview is driven by the ID doc's CMYK profile. If you are using the correct profile, the Overprint/Separation preview is more accurate than the Overprint off 2.2 gamma preview. For flattened grayscales the differing previews has no effect on CMYK outputthe gray values are always output unchanged to the black plate when the output destination is document CMYK.

In Logic X printing to pdf gives me strange drop shadows after the notes, text.. etc.

I'm doing a score layout in logic pro X and sended some PDF print files to my client, but he said there were drop shadows on the notes and text. It's really annoying and I can't figure out what the solution for this problem could be. I opened an older project in logic 9 to find out if it was the software, or maybe the conversion to pdf, but in logic 9 there was no problem . The pdf's were sharp as a knife.
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I have the exactly same issue.

Using InDesign CS6, why does a drop shadow applied to a text box, cause a photo on the same page to

I thought it was just a screen appearance so I made a pdf and the photo is lighter here too. I've never had this issue with CS5.5 or earlier. Drop shadows were able to be applied to one object without affecting others on the page. Is it a bug? Is there a setting I'm missing? Thanks!

Overprint preview didn't stop the lightening of the photo.
A google search turned up the suggestion to change the transparency blend space to RGB, which worked in InDesign. When I make the pdf (no color conversion) it looks ok. But when turning on Output Preview in Acrobat, the photo lightens again. Weird and frustrating - I'm not sure what the final output will look like.
Is Transparency Flattener set at High res an option?
I appreciate your help!
Anne

How do I remove drop shadows from the default text in the labels of a Numbers pie chart?

I set up a pie chart in Numbers and set labels for percentage. The default text has drop shadowss. They do print well at the scale needed for the page. I cannot find out how to remove these shadows for clearer printing. Can the shadows be removed?

Nevermind. Found the answer in nthe side bar under "Re:how can I print the figures (text) in a chart WITHOUT a cast shadow. I had the Font window set too narrow and it did not show the Text Shadow button in the tool bar. Unclicking that worked.

2014.3 -Can't apply drop shadow (or other effects) to text, however I can apply effect to shapes, Why?

I'm new to Muse, but have always been curious to try it. Today I updated to Muse CC 2014.3 after watching the "up and running with Muse" videos out on Lynda.com
I'm not sure if it's something i'm not doing correctly, but I can't apply drop shadow (or other effects) to text, however I can apply effect to shapes just fine, why?

This has to do with the way we set text to be rendered in the browser. You are able to apply a drop shadow to system fonts (which will be rasterized to an image in the browser), but currently web safe fonts with drop shadow aren't supported in Muse because we still support IE8 and IE9 -- which don't support the shadow effect for text. One sort of work around is to use two text frames, one which holds your text and one which has black coloring with opacity less than 100% applied to the text that gets set behind and offset to your text to appear as though it were drop shadow, while keeping your text live. Group them together and moving them shouldn't throw off your design too much.

Why does drop shadow on text only work when you rotate?

I can't get the drop shadow to work on text while keeping it aligned horizontal. Seems to only show up it I rotate the text. Goes away when I put back horizontal. Frustrating. Just want to drop shadow text with out rotating. Can anyone advise on this? Thanks in advance.

This was discussed here for many times.
Drop shadow on text isn't implemented, because many browsers don't support it.
If text has to be converted to an image (system fonts, rotating etc), shadow can be applied, because this effect will be part of the image.
Look here:
Appllying effects, shadow, bevel, glow to text

Opacity mask is also knocking out drop shadow. Grrr.

Hi everyone,
I'm having a problem with Illustrator CS6 that's really bugging me and there must be a simple fix that I'm missing.
I have editable text with a linked opacity mask. The opacity mask contains strokes with an art brush applied to 'scratch' out parts of the text.
See below for example:
I don't want the opacity mask to knock out the drop shadow (much like how "Layer Knocks Out Drop Shadow" works in Photoshop), but just knock out the text only. See below for an example of what I want the end result to be:
BUT, and here's the problem, I want the text to remain editable.
I know one workaround is that I could convert the text to outlines, make it a compound path, expand the strokes on the opacity mask, make those a compound path too, and then Subtract/Minus Front the scratches from the text object and then reapply the drop shadow, BUT, this renders the text uneditable.
I've tried playing with the options in the Transparency panel, ie: Opacity & Mask Define Knockout Shape but nothing has worked.
What am I missing??
Thanks so much in advance for your help!!
Cheryl

Hi Jacob,
Thanks so much for the detailed instructions. I get through step 4 no problems but I run into problems with the way I try to select the items for step 5.
Let's say I have completed step 4 and am ready to begin step 5. When I am in my Layers panel, I select the scratches that are now masked by the non-drop shadowed text:
I then click into the the Opacity Mask editing mode [per your instructions "5) Select the Opacity Mask from 4)"] and now the mask is selected:
The problem begins when I have to effectively shift-select the mask and the live text from 1 (the original text with the drop shadow).
To begin, I still have the opacity mask selected (as shown above) and then when I click the left object preview box (as circled below)
to get back into the full Layers panel (to select the live text), now the mask becomes DEselected and the object becomes selected. How do I keep a mask selected and yet go back to in the Layers panel to select other items from there?
Thanks!
Cheryl

Drop shadow on a text box?

I'm not really sure what I did, but between last night and this afternoon, somehow, a drop shadow appears with my text boxes...I'm so confused, and I don't know what I did. I know that when a text box is drawn, there are no available options for effects, and I don't see it anywhere in my paragraph styles.
I'm running CC on Windows, if that helps. I'm in school and this is for a class assignment, so I need to get this fixed. Any ideas on where to look? Would a screen shot help? Thanks!

Open the Effects panel (Window > Effects). Select your text frame(s) and look for an "fx" icon on the Effects panel. Drag it to the little trash can icon to eliminate the effect.
You probably clicked the "fx" icon on the Control panel by mistake when nothing was selected, turning on that effect for default frames.

Drop Shadow for text does not work

I can't get drop shadow to work for text. Every time I click on a text box and then click Effects, the drop shadow option does not appear as clickable and is basically blanked/darkened out. It only works for boxes/objects other than text but every tutorial out there shows that I am doing this correctly. What am I missing? Can you no longer make text with a drop shadow?

I've tried that too... when I go to the text tool and select the text itself the "effects" button disappears altogether and I can't find any other options to initiate drop shadow except through the "effects".
Using the selection tool it's not available.
Using the text tool... it's just not there at all.

Drop shadow on eps shape produces fine line when inserted into InDesign and PDF created.

Hi I am having a few issues with an eps file that I have created. Basically it is a eps file with shapes, a gradient and a drop shadow on the outlined text - created in illustrator.
All looks fine until I take it into Indesign and create a pdf. I then get a line around where the drop shadow is. Zooming in doesn’t make it go away, but it also does not change its size.
I have done some research and tried one fix (have the drop shadow as another object using multiply as the opacity) this did not work.
Anything else talks of spot colours (there are none) or just having view ok on the screen (take off smoothing). But none of these are fixes for when I send this image to my client. I also tried saving as different pdf formats but this also does not work.
The only way I can make it go away is to save the file as an illustrator ai file and use that for pdfs. This would be OK, but other suppliers need to use the file and want eps format.
From what I have read, it seems to be a screen artefact and so theoretically should not appear when printed. But I do not know this for sure and I hesitate to send it to the client as it is.
Has anyone seen this before? And are there any fixes (e.g.: treating the drop shadow differently)?
Thanking you in advance.
Cheers
Nikola

NViereckel schrieb:
The only way I can make it go away is to save the file as an illustrator ai file and use that for pdfs. This would be OK, but other suppliers need to use the file and want eps format
EPS is simply unsuitable when dealing with transparency (which is what your drop shadow is). So you need to work with AI for placing in InDesign. If other suppliers need EPS, then just send them that. Nothing should keep you from exporting another file format.

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