Drop shadow turns to hard shape in high resolution?

I have a drop shadow that looks fine when the document raster effects is set at 72 dpi, but at anything higher turns into a hard shape with no blur/shading. Is this a memory issue, and is there a workaround for it? Thanks for any ideas.

The Gaussian Blur was rewritten for CS6 and should probably be similar in CC. Your screen shots did not get properly attached. Can you try again to attach them using the Camera icon in the reply window tool bar?

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I'm in the very early stages of a logo design and I've applied a drop shadow to a triangle shape. When I export to an eps file I get the problem below. Is there any reason for this? I'm very new to illustrator and I'm sure it's something simple. I hope so!!!

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Hello,
I'm a bit new to Illustrator (using CS2) and using it to create a CD artwork layout. I understand that i need to flatten the transparency and the artwork before generating a PDF to send to the printer.
When I choose "Flatten transparency" to flatten an a TIF image w/ a drop shadow (DS applied in Illustrator using Effect > Stylize > Drop Shadow)... the shadow turns a bluey grey and looks awful. How can I make it stay black like I want it?
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Mode: Multiply
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Well, this is preliminary, but here goes.
First, the bad news: What you're observing is real and repeatable. Transparency is a voodoo area, and it will take a real expert to explain the whys of what's happening. But it
is happening.
Take an egdemost polaroid and, via the appearance palette, change the drop shadow so that it has a huge offset, giving you a shadow block distinct from the main image. Pull the object sufficiently off the background so that half of the shadow is in the clear. Now, dial up the flatten transparency dialog and toggle the preview. You'll see that while the portion of the shadow in the no-background area remains unchanged, the portion within your background goes light and bluish. The flattening is clearly "reacting" to your background.
I thought the same thing as jcates and tried a black-plate-only (0/0/0/100) drop shadow. While the result is a tad different, we still have the basic problem.
Ugh.
Next, a question: Who told you transparent objects needed to be flattened before generating a press output PDF?
One of the advantages of saving out a PDF (rather than
printing to PDF via Acrobat's Distiller engine) is to preserve transparency, which is supported in the newest PDF versions. I don't want to suggest your printing company might be a tad behind the times, but one option you might consider is leaving the drop shadows as they are. Let the printer deal with transparency issues... which should not be an issue at all if they are up to handling the latest PDF spec. Of course, you will insist on a contract proof before going to press.
Next thought: For the small amount of shadow showing, there isn't really that much advantage to using a rich black. You might consider going black-plate-only to avoid tinting issues. Again, the contract proof is your friend.
Final (for now) thought: Do the drop shadows in Photoshop. Make sure there is no background and save as PSD. Place the PSD in Illustrator -- AI will respect the transparency in the PSD image. Yes, this is a PITA when it comes time to adjust the drop shadow. Being an old-timer with this stuff, that is how
I would execute this design. (We geezers don't trust Illustrator with raster effects.)
I have to go dinner shopping now to avoid getting into trouble with my wife, but I will look at this some more when I get the chance. In the meantime, let's hope someone else looking at this comes up with an "Aha!" solution.
{Bumped in the meantime.}

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whats going on?
K

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Looks like the shadow is being applied to the outline. Smart shapes are drawn with canvas in HTML5 so you'd need to hackinto the code to try and fix it. You could try an outline with no fill on top of the shape with the text, white background, no outline and apply the shadow to that smart shape. Group the objects for convenience.

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Some weeks ago I had to make a large scale graphic (800mmx2000mm) for a roll-up banner. I wanted to apply a drop shadow to a rounded shape, and ugly lines came up. Since it was a bit urgent, I decided not to use it.
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Mike Gondek wrote:
I was able to create an ellipse to your dimension and got a good drop shadow. What happens if you manually make a drop shadow using appearance?
FYI I tried making the same using drop shadow filter in CS5 and got this error.
Incase your file was created in CS5 and opened in 6, I would recreate the drop shadow in CS6. I know they redid the gaussian blur in CS6, but not sure if that affected drop shadow.
CS6 is better on raster effects at large sizes.
My file was created and opened in CS6.
My ellipse is around 175cmx50cm. I tried it manually like you said and got the same results:
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Seems to be a bug - I made a new master page, copied and pasted my master content to the new page and applied the new master to the pages and the drop shadow is gone, (but still on the a-master).
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Drop shadows and HTML5

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Hi Jay,
As you are used to, I double-checked what was my idea about those shadows: being simply a slightly moved duplicate of the original shape with the color, alpha and other settings you setup in the PI, Shadow accordion. I published to HTML5 and everything showed up as expected, here is a screenshot of that published version:
For the first smart shape I only decremented the Alpha more for the Fill in order to see better the duplicate, shadow image. The second one has no fill, but I customized the shadow color.
Could you post a screenshot of your different result?
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Illustrator CS6 crashes using Effect Stylize Drop Shadow. There's a work-around

Illustrator CS6 crashes when using Effect > Stylize > Drop Shadow on a regular shape e.g. rectangle created by the Ractangle Tool.
I select the shape, apply the effect and it will crash giving this warning dialog: "The operation cannot complete of an unknown error: [CANT]". Then Illustrator CS6 crashes.
This is the crash report in Windows 7 32-bit:
Faulting application name: Illustrator.exe, version: 16.0.0.682, time stamp: 0x4f6e762b
Faulting module name: MMXCore.8BX_unloaded, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x4f44e8d6
Exception code: 0xc0000005
The crash happens about 90% of the time.
Possible work-around:
Since I experienced some strange behaviour of CS6 applications before, I experimented witn running Illustrator as an administrator (elevated privileges). When I do that, I can apply the effect without Illustrator CS6 crashing. Here I go again..elevated privileges (see http://forums.adobe.com/message/4432510) .
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Wade_Zimmerman wrote:
When will you users on the Window platform learn to repair your permissions the problem when installing any software is that the permissions may not be set properly and this may be caused by the way previously installed software has changed your system.
Because there's no need to do a "repair permissions" thing, that being a bizarre Apple concept. In Windows, the software installation neither "sets permissions properly" nor does previously installed software "change your system" (whatever that means). Windows installation packages run under a special account to copy files into their proper directories without having to "change system properties". It's all done automagically and managed by Windows, not by individual applications.
Wade_Zimmerman wrote:
KNow I know that with windows users it is a very unpopular premise that the permission might need to be repaired but they do from time to time and I believe unfortunately that on the Windows platform it is a manual procedure but there may be a utility that can do it for you.
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Wade_Zimmerman wrote:
Of course your settings folder could also be corrupt.
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Ken

Question about drop shadow...

Hi,
I need the drop shadow to still be visible around a cut out box shape.
Can anyone tell me how to achieve this effect? (Please see attached picture).
It may involve a compound clipping path but I'm not sure...
I would need detailed step by step instructions (especially because I don't even know what a compound clipping path is, or if i need one for this effect).
Thanks, in advance!

I assume you are trying to create a placeholder image with a pre-assigned drop shadow. I would create a shape and apply your drop shadow effects>stylize>drop shadow.
With the shape still selected, press shift+D twice or look at the bottom of your tools panel and change to the draw inside mode. Place your image in that.
If that is not the effect you are looking for then you can create a faux drop shadow by doing the following:
1. Create a box and fill it with your shadow color.
2. With the box selected go to effects>blur>gaussian blur to create the drop shadow effect your want.
3. Duplicate that same shape and place it above the first one, but slightly adjusted to recreate the drop shadow offset.
5. Remove the blur effect in your appearance panel of the top object.
4. Select both objects and in your pathfinder panel select the "minus front" button.
You should have a blurred backwards L shape.

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Seems like a major bug to me.

Do you have photoshop cc 14.1.2?
(Help>System Info)
Resetting the photoshop preferences might clear things up if your updated to version 14.1.2
Hold down the Shift+Alt+Ctrl keys just after starting the launch of photoshop cc and keep holding the keys down until you get
a dialog asking if you want to Delete the photoshop settings file.
Press Yes because you do.

PP CS6 Title Safe Motion Automatic Drop Shadow - WHY and how do I turn it off?

Hello all.
I'm new to Premiere (one week) after years on Avid. So go easy on me.
I've created a title that I've added some motion to (basic stuff, just moved the position/added some directional blur so that the camera pan matches the title movement). The moment the edge of the title frame enters the screen a drop shadow appears - but only if there's motion (see attached picture).
At first I thought it wouldn't show up on export- but it did. I'm sure it was placed there by programmers as some kind of marker, or edge warning, but why in the world can't I find a place to shut it off? I tried everything, watched about 2 hours worth of adobe TV, youtube, vimeo tutorials, read forums, the software's help section, etc. Had a chat conversation with an adobe rep in India and he suggested I animate using title crawl - in the end he didn't know how to turn the shadow off. I could always go to AE, but why should I have to do this for something so basic? Is there ANY way to shut this feature off (considering how customizable everything that adobe makes tends to be)? Or do I have to bite the bullet and create a Matte to over the shadow (silly considering it wasn't my creative choice).
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PPS: Yes, I could zoom into the frame to avoid the shadow (and if there is no answer or solution to my question I will do that) but why should there be a permanent shadow on a Title frame that already has several safety markers - including a while edge around the frame???? Or furthermore, why should we be limited to work inside a frame???
Thank you for your help/time.

It's locked and I'm unable to toggle it, but it seems like that is the current setting. It still shows the shadow.

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.

High resolution PDF still generates low resolution drop shadows?

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Up until now I have told him to not worry and run it anyway, and the results have been fine - I haven't noticed any problems with the quality of the print in the magazine. But it really annoys me that I keep getting these error messages - I want to create perfect PDFs! Why on earth are my shadows ending up as low resolution images?
The only thing I can imagine might be a sign of an issue is under the Advanced-tab in my Export-settings. The Transparency Flattener section (which I, to be honest, am not quite sure what it is) is set to medium resolution, and is greyed out - meaning I can't change it to high resolution. Could this be what is causing it? And if so, how do I fix it?

I don't spend a lot of time with Acrobat's preflight, but it looks like it assumes what the flattener preset will be at output even though it could be anything.
The default Press Quality preset exports live transparency with the flattener grayed out as Medium and it looks like Acrobat preflight considers that even though nothing has been flattened yet. So, here I've made a 3" sqaure box and exported it with Press Quality and prefilght tells me it's roughly 200ppi (which by the way is plenty for a dropshadow):
If I change the preset to High (set the Compatibility to 1.3, which lets you set the flattener to High, then reset compatibility to 1.4):
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Drop shadow turns to hard shape in high resolution?

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