Drop Shadow on Two Sides

Hello All,
Is there a way to have a drop shadow on 2 sides of an object? I want it to look like this:
I have been using two objects with the shadow on 1 side and then putting them on top of each other. Would like to do it with 1 object. Can it be done?

I never done a 2-sided shadow before. Interesting.
I usually just set the angle and distance to zero, then increase the blur. You effectly end up with a dark outer glow, or a shadow all the way around. Tried uploading a screen capture, but had no luck. Easy enough to try though.

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Drop Shadow On Left Side

When you apply a drop shadow to an object, such as a rectangle, it always on the right side. Is there a way to put the shadow on the left side?

Hello Gary,
You can change the side of the drop shadow to a rectangle/object by changing the angle of the shadow.
Please follow the steps below :
- Select the rectangle.
- Click on Effects>Shadow.
- Now increase the value of Angle from 45 to 135 (or something else according to the requirement).
This changes the angle of the shadow and changes the side where dropdown shadow effect is applied.
Please have a look at the screenshot :
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Sachin

Importing a .psd file - getting weird effects with drop shadows!! HELP!

Hi all,
I'm trying to import a psd file as my site and then animate each page.
I have each page set up as a different layer and am importing each page as a movie clip so i can animate each one separately.
The problem is that i have some images on each page that have drop shadows ( i have flattened these in photoshop so there is no longer the blending options layers attached). When flash imports all the layers it obviously has all of them visible at the same time initially.
When i then go through and separate each page to show at different points in the timeline, the images with drop shadows are now showing the image that was underneath it on import, instead of the drop shadow. Difficult to explain, but if you imagine a page with a square in the middle. That square has a drop shadow along two edges which is a slight shading. On a different page (on the layer underneath) there is just a big image of the sea (could be anything). When i import them, the page with the square is sitting directly on top of the page with the image of the sea. I separate these in the timeline so they show at different points, but when it's just the page with the square showing (the page with the sea isn't showing at this point), instead of the nice shading for the drop shadow, in it's place is the thin part of the image of the sea that was initially under the shading for the drop shadow....
Can anyone suggest what is happening and why, and how to quickly fix it in Flash. It took me AGES to import the whole site and all the pages, but now all the movieclips are completely useless because all the drop shadows are messed up with the images that were importing underneath them???!
I'm in a real rush here too, so any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks.

How was the original art created? Was the original RGB or CMYK? What is the resolution of the Photoshop file? Flash only works well with RGB and 72 pixel per inch resolution. If your original art is not set this way, then Flash will attempt to convert it as it imports it. Flash uses the sRGB color space. You'll get the best color translation if your Photoshop file is using this color preference.

Masking unwanted sides to drop shadow effect (AI CS2 Mac)

I've got a problem with drop shadows in CS2 (Mac). Can anyone help? I've applied an offset of zero and a blur of 1mm which works fine but the object is at the corner of the artboard and the shadow spills over onto the pasteboard and leaves a fine line showing when imported into InDesign (at the edge of the graphics frame).
Can you tell me how I can loose the shadow on the two sides I don't want it? I've tried creating a clipping mask behind to paste it into but I loose the solid area of the object (with the shadow) that I'm pasting in to the mask.
Many thanks,
Bob

I don't see a problem. A clipping mask should work, but perhaps I might not be following the description in your second paragraph correctly.
Could you clarify, preferably by providing a screenshot that illustrates what you get and what you want to achieve?

Pie chart drop shadows not printing properly.. cuts off right hand side of pie chart...???

Every time I go to print a pie chart that has a drop shadow applied to it, it cuts off the right hand side of the chart along with the shadow itself. It looks HORRIBLE!!! I went through and created a bunch of reports using that method, and now ALL of them have this problem. It makes ZERO sense to me, and it appears that nobody else is experiencing this. Does anybody have any ideas?

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Left side drop shadow

I have a background rectangle at 1278 x 1000 px. I have my page at 1074x 1000 pixels. I have a drop shadow effect on the right side of the page. I want the same drop shadow effect on the left hand side of the rectangle that is my 1074 web page. It gives it a nice 3D effect. How would I get it on the left since I selected the rectangle and the drop shadow only works on the right side and bottom I guess. I can't see the bottome since it is off the art board. I don't want it on the bottom edge anyway. Only the left and right sides. In the drop shadow panel I only see the x & y access and shades selections?
thanks,

Just add another instance of the Drop Shadow Effect from the effects menu. Left and right are controlled by the X offset (positive to the right, negative to the left); up and down by the Y offset (positive down, negative up) either can be 0.

Drop shadow from one master appearing on a page with a different master CS5

I have a series of curriculum books that make use of two different page styles controlled by two masters. On occasion in the books, the two masters appear side by side in a spread. Both masters contain similar background graphics but one has more side margin than the other. In the instance where the side margin appears on the left hand page, the drop shadow from a background element on the full page master appears on the bigger margin page. The actual object that has the shadow is not there, but the shadow is. This only happens when the margin is on the left; the shadow does not appear when the masters are side by side in a spread and the wide margin is on the right. See attached image.
I can split the pages apart and the shadow goes away, but this gets to be a pain when text reflows and I have to change the pages around. Any idea how I can keep this ghosted effect from appearing where it isn't supposed to be?
I'm on CS5 on an Intel Mac running Leopard.
Thanks.

Lots of cross posting...
Check the position of the edge of the cropped frame. I had a problem when it wasn't dead on the spine and the frame had the shadow applied...
Further investigation pasting the shadowed frame into another and cropping that reproduces your error, but good news, I think. If you select the cropped frame and pick a proxy point that is supposed to be on the spine, then subtract an infinitesimal amount, like .0001 from the x coordinate to move it left, or add the same if you need to move the right half right, ID will round the result back to the original dimension, but the ghost will disappear.
At least it seems to work for me on two-page lettersize spreads working with rulers in inches.
I think this is a bug, and I think we've discussed it before and I stumbled on the same solution last time.

Drop shadow on a wall perspective

I am trying to figure out how to create the drop shadow of a sphere on a wall.
I am not a beginner on that matter ( well ... I am ready to learn more)
The blue lines represent the sun rays and the sun trace wich is in front and on the right side of the viewer P.
The green sun grid represent the sun position on the azimut moved and vertically aligned to the viewer position P. This to create the trace of the sphere on the wall.
From here I am missing something.
It is your cue. What am I missing?
How do I join files to define my question?
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I am working at it.
In perspective 2 . gif
Normally the second set of lines (trace) is build from the real position of the sun (azimuth) dropped on the horisn line.
The real position of the sun gives one set of lines.
The position of the sun displaced on top of the P point gives the other set of lines.
The encounter of the two sets establish dots from wich the shadow is drawed.
It should be the same with a sphere.

Drop Shadows Not Exporting On a Single Page in 1.3

Hi guys,
I have a trifold I've made and while exporting for my printer, I lose the drop shadows on the inside page (page 2). There are fewer drops shadows on the first page, and that side prints properly. The only difference between the two pages aside from the amount of drop shadows; is that most drop shadows are jpgs on page 2, and the outside page has only basic shapes. These same shapes show up on page 2 as well, but doesn't have drop shadows (therefore ruling out that it's because I have jpgs). I have to export it as a PDF 1.3 (Adobe 4) because that's what my printer specified with me, hence the only reason I'm running into transparency issues such as this. I'm running CS6 with Adobe Acrobat X Pro.
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Mitch

The objects that have drop shadows on page 2 are mostly jpgs, sorry for the confusion.

Trying to do .CSS drop shadows

Hi,
I'm trying to get a similar look and feel as this website
Livingsteel.org but can't
seem to crack the drop shadow for the main table/container. It's
the one down that covers the bottom and right side and makes the
site look very tidy.
I'm trying to do everything in .css from now on and any help
with this would be great.
Thanks in advance,
JW.

Well you can certainly do it with a table (and format the
table with CSS).
However to do it with divs, I would have a top div with the
top bar (and
the right corner of the shadow), a main div with the shadow
on the right
in the bakcground, and a bottom bar with the shadow and a bit
of the
bottom white.
Like this:
Course you can simply use divs to create the dropshadows as
you would do
it in a table.
You would more or less have a topleft corner div, a middle
top div, a
topright corner div etc.
The more light way of doing this would be to see if you can
accomplish
the first suggestion by using existing elements (for example
having the
background of the footer and header contain the background
and shadows).
There are a bunch of sites around that explore rounded
corners and
dropshadows with css and divs.
Misha
jamestom77 wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to get a similar look and feel as this
website
>
http://www.livingsteel.org/
but can't seem to crack the drop shadow for the
> main table/container. It's the one down that covers the
bottom and right side
> and makes the site look very tidy.
>
> I'm trying to do everything in .css from now on and any
help with this would
> be great.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> JW.
>

Photoshop Elements 7: Newbie Needs Drop Shadow Help, Please

Hello.
I'm brand new to Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 and need help with the Drop Shadow feature, please.
I've read the documentation, but it's not crystal clear to me, so maybe someone can guide me through it.
I want to create text on a blank white canvas, and add a little bit of drop shadow to it. That's all I want to do--plain and simple.
I can create the text, but I can't for the life of me find any drop shadow options.
The documentation I'm using is the on-line, web-based help. I type in Drop Shadow in Search, and select Add Text to a Slide.
The third step says, "In the Properties palette, set any of the following options" and then offers some options, including Drop Shadow and Drop Shadow Color.
I'll be darned if I can locate the Properties palette. Obviously, I'm not well-versed with Photoshop, so if anyone can just steer me towards this feature, I'll take things from there.
I know this is probably rock-bottom basic, but I'm stumped. Thank you!
J. Danniel

I need a lot more help with this than I thought.
The problem I'm having is this: After creating the drop shadow effect, when I try to save the image as a transparent GIF, it quite simply.... looks horrible.
Here is what I'm doing in detail:
1. New/Blank File.
2. Blank File is set to transparent. (Is this the right way to make a transparent GIF?)
3. Creating text.
4. Cropping text.
5. Selecting drop shadow effect.
Now, here's where I get confused. Do I just select File/Save As, or File/Save For Web?
When I just use File/Save As, and select the GIF format, the drop shadow effect in the final file looks horrible when I embed the image into a web page. The text looks good, and the file is transparent, but the effect is ugly.
When I try to use Save for Web, there is a Before/After screen. The Before side looks decent; the After screen looks horrible, too.
So, now I don't know what to do. Can you or anyone guide me through this a bit further, please? Thank you! Jd

Drop shadow issue in Distiller 9.0

InDesign CS4 has 2-color title, which has Pantone Orange (spot color) and Black (Process Color). The design has two objects, first object has set as Pantone and second object has set as Black on top of the Pantone object and it has Drop shadow too. The drop shadow (Black - Process color) does not appeared on Pantone object while converting PS through PDF whereas the exported PDF from InDesign converted wonderfully. I have attached an images (turned on/off Overprint Preview) for your reference. You can see the difference when you turn on/off "Overprint Preview" in Acrobat. Also thin white rule appeared. Actually the rule should not appear in the PDF. Any help much appreciated.

What happens if you print one page with the drop shadow together with only one or two pages that don't have the drop shadow? What color mix are your drop shadows? Like Peter suggested, check the corresponding compression settings in your distiller preset. Heck, check all the compression settings in those presets. I had to use PS to work around some issue once and distinctly remember a problem with the presets making my grayscale elements look low-res because compression was set too high in a preset that was supposed to be high quality.
Then again, just use Peter's workaround.

Indesign CS6 text drop shadow changes background colour

I have two layers, one for a background image linked to a photoshop document and another layer for text. When i add drop shadow to the text, the background colour goes sort of dark, and the same happens in overprint view whereas with 5.5 it didn't do that. Is there a way to fix this?
Before:
After:

Looks like maybe an RGB image with a CMYK transparency blend space applied.

Drop shadows on text do not behave in the same way to inner shadows on objects

I have piece of text with a drop shadow on top of a box which has an inner shadow. In both cases, the shadows are CMYK black, with 100% opacity, applied using the Multiply method.
When designing, things appear correctly (note background is CMYK magenta, but will change once this issue is resolved):
When outputting in the Press format, with everything left as defaults, then two issues are seen, firstly is the Yucky Box Problem, the second is the drop shadow has lost it's colour, and looks as it does if I choose Normal for the shadow type. Note the PDF viewer is Apple Preview in Lion:
If I embed the CMYK colour profile I'm using (Coated FOGRA39), then the YBP goes away, but the colour of the shadow is still wrong:
Finally, if I force the transparency to be flattened, it appears correctly but with a thin white line (note profiles are not being embedded in this case):
Case 1
Case 2
Case 3
Case 4
What I would like to know is how to ensure the output is as it should be in the final case, but without the white line, i.e. without flattening. It's worth noting that if the text is located in the main, white, area of the page, then it works correctly in all cases (except the Yucky Box Problem situation which is easily resolved). Thanks in advance!

That seems to have resolved the problem. Interestingly, the 'Yucky Box Problem' doesnt seem to occur regardless of whether I'm importing the profile or not, I guess Adobe Reader is doing it's own stuff with the colour space which Preview isn't. Thanks again for your help!

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I add drop shadows in the last stage and FCP just ain't holding it together. I get glitches. And then I keep getting these Media Offline notices because FCP cant' track the render files that are actually in use in the upstream nests.
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