FW Drop shadow problem

I have created a website in FWCS3 and when I put a background behind it (in DWCS3), the drop shadow effects I have do not work with any colors other than white. Can anyone give some advice? If I use another color for the background the shading looks terrible, like a grayish color Please help.

Hi
If i got this right, you used fireworks to create an image with shadow added to it. You should have in mind that when you do that, you create an image file and dreamweaver cannot see the shadow you added but the whole graphic as an image file.
Now, when you want to use a specific color for background in dreamweaver and place your image, make sure that it has the same background color as the one you apply inside dreamweaver.
If you use a gif file for transparency, make sure to select or diselect the right options from the optimize panel.
If you can, upload the file and let me know how you did.

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I remember when I was working with RAW in PSE 8. I would be in Bridge looking at a pic and double click on it. PSE 8 would open in Camera RAW and I could play with the pic a bit, make some adjustments, then click on OPEN IMAGE. When I did that it would open in PSE and it would be in jpg format. With this PSE 9 and the updated Camera RAW 6.3, when I punch OPEN IMAGE I still have a picture labeled .CR2 which I think still means RAW. When I double click in Bridge the .CR2 pic shows as 8 bit depth. I can do a little more work on it and use SAVE AS. When I do that, the sample file name that shows is still in .CR2 format and I must change that to .jpg and then below change from PHOTOSHOP to JPEG to save my file as a jpg file. Is there something that I have to change in preferences to get it to open the image in jpg format when I hit the OPEN IMAGE button? Or, is this an "improvement" with RAW 6.3? Also, I seem to be having trouble adding a drop shadow (or any other effects) on jpeg pics. At least it doesn't show up on the screen after I apply it. I just recently updated to Camera RAW 6.3 and updated my Operating system on my iMac computer to OS 10.6.6. I emailed this request to my good friend with an identical setup on his iMac and he is having the same response when performing the above operations. Any ideas what the problem might be?

Okay, previously you seem to have been using the bridge version of camera raw to edit your raw photos. That has many more options than the PSE version of the raw converter. (If you still have PSE 8, you can see the difference by using File>Open in the editor to open a raw photo for the PSE version of ACR, which works the same way in PSE 9.) In PSE's raw converter, you use the Open button, then save your photo in an image format in the editor. The Save button in ACR in PSE is only the DNG converter.
Layer styles should work exactly the same way as in PSE 8. However, in any version of PSE a drop shadow, like a real shadow, needs someplace to fall, so unless there is empty space on the layer, it won't appear. Try creating text or drawing and simplifying a shape and adding a drop shadow. Does it appear then?
Also remember that Jpegs won't let you save either layers or transparency when you resave the file.

Drop Shadows problem in Acrobat Reader & Professional

Hi all,
We have a problem with Acrobat, when we open an pdf which has drop shadow over a background seems to be white patch around the dropshadow.
Attempt done:
First Attempt: Opened the PDF in acrobat professional 7, when we switch on overprint option this seems to be good but when I print I got the white patch around the dropshadow.
Second Attempt: Opened the PDF in Acrobat Reader 9.0, it has white patch and print has white patch.
Third Attempt: Opened the PDF in Acrobat Professional 8, when we switch on overprint option looks fine and print fine.
Client want the pdf should be compatible in Acrobat Reader.
Note: This PDF was generated with 3b2 Software we cannot switch over the software to Indesign.
Any suggestion related to this issue.
Kaviya

The overprint settings would need to be set in the source file and preserved when generating the pdf. Based on the information from the uploaded file, you might try Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher support.

Drop shadow problem

Hi,
We face the below mentioned problem. Would be great if someone could help us.
Due to problems with uploading the attachment here, please send a email to the following email-id ([email protected]) and I shall send the attachment in response.
Problem Description: Clicking dropshadow in air component should bring focus to other application behind the air application.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open any applications in full screen. ( ex : MSWord, Notepad )
2. Run the DropShadow sample.
3. Click the shadow portion in the panel component.
Actual Result: Clicking the shadow area in the panel component is setting focus to the same DropShadow application.
Expected Result: If some other application are opened in fullscreen ,then clicking the shadow area in the panel component should change the focus to the applications which is behind DropShadow application.
Thanks in advance.

After looking at your code your application is behaving as it should. Essentially your flash element is defining a drop shadow. It is part of your application therefore when the user clicks on it, it's like clicking on the rest of the application.
Some programming languages get around this by using regions and relying on the operating system to generate the drop shadow (when available.) For instance in a C# application you would define a region, clip everything outside of it (so that it is transparent) and then use the windows API to shadow your application. When using the API the OS then uses it's rules to define whether you clicked on the application or not. This also leads to all sorts of weirdness when you have anti aliased window shapes (curves and the like) and do not want them to look terrible.
So AIR applications handle this by allowing you to have completely transparent windows if the underlying window manager supports it. The drawback then is that you are not using the OS to define your shadows and so your shadows are part of the application window and clickable. On the plus side AIR allows for a great bit of flexibility that is not so easily attained in other ways. (I once lost about 2 weeks of my life on a C# app just getting rounded edges to not look extremely horrible.)
For an illustration consider if you created a custom popup menu that was 50% transparent. For all intents and purposes to AIR that is identical to the drop shadow you are creating here however in that instance you would want it clickable etc.
Hope that helps!

Drop shadow problem with Illustrator CS5

I've used drop shadow several times with no problems in both photoshop and Illustrator... currently I'm dropping a white shadow onto a black background and although the shadow drops correctly around the object I've noticed that there is some sort of extra white blur that is happening several inches away from my images reguardless of what shape they are. Let me know if a file would help and I can email an example of the problem. Thanks

Wade, This does look like the exact problem I'm having. I do not want to make a clipping mask because I have around 20 pages with numerous images on each page of varying sizes... I tried- Effect/Document Raster Effect Settings, Under options I played with a couple different settings but none seem to have fixed the problem... There is a check box for;
Anti-alias
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I'm running PS CS3 in Win7 and have noticed an odd problem. I have a psd with a layer in which I've knocked-out or erased the background. I've got a forground subject and the rest is transparent. I've got another layer beneath it. I had a drop shadwo and when I increase the Spread all is ok. Then I increase the Size and I see a whole bunch of drop shadows that have nothing to do with the forground subject.
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Something is there, why can't it be seen?
Because technically, even 0.00001 opacity is not 100% transparent and you are human - your eye can't discriminate such small differences in color and your computer can't display it to begin with, either. Beyond that you have pretty much answered your own question - they are stray pixels with very low opacities and you have to clean them up properly.
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Hi,
I'm importing .AI files into Fireworks in order to export them as .pngs because the raster quality is better than out of .ai,
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C

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The basic question is this: Where does a 1-pixel stroke belong on a vector object that's aligned to a bitmap grid?
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Hi,
There is probably a really simple way to solve this but I can't work it out.
I have 6 brochure covers on the page, and I want to apply a drop shadow to all of them. When I do apply it however all images get darker, almost as if the shodow is being applied over the top rather then underneath. I have tired 'bring to front' etc, so that's not the issue. I've also tried placing a white box underneath the image, but thats not working either.
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This has been driving me crazy! Why is Keynote automatically adding a drop shadow to my Data Point Labels???? Even when I select the labels above my bars, click on the Graphics button (in the Inspector window) and un-check the Drop Shadow box, it still leaves a drop shadow on them.
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Hi,
You might try Edit > Select All and see if the Graphics Inspector Shadow checkbox has any mark in it. Just something to try. If there is a dash in the box, some objects are shadowed and some are not. A couple of clicks there should clear everything.
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Drop Shadow problems.

My Ai (CC17.1.0) drop shadow effect is not working properly. It does some bizarre things. Like other people have described, it appears to not create a drop shadow, but I believe it may be creating an incredibly pale shadow, at least some of the time.

Monika, my Dropbox situation is in a non-functional state. Can you invite me to yours?
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1. create image
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3. select image > Object Menu > Path > Offset path
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below are screen shots in outline mode:

Pages, printing: still problem with drop shadows . Frustrated. :

Hi -
I've spent most of the afternoon trying to get my Pages document to print properly.
I am experiencing the drop-shadow issue :heavy black clump instead of artfully placed& delicate. Printouts do not resemble what is onscreen or in preview etc.
Having read through the forums; the links; the (cruddy) Pages Help and manual; installed new HP offficejet all-in-one software...
I still get the same result.
Most of the threads don't quite fit my situation.
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One of the threads had fairly explicit directions to make a new filter in Coloursync which led all the way to a "change resolution" menu but didn't offer advice on what resolution
modification to make. rrrrrrrr..
I am pretty lost at this point and really just want to print out a document that looks like what I have designed.
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tried to print directly from Pages
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c'mon, Bogie - tell us what you really feel - don't hold back... < </div>
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I tried to drop shadow on an object 12x18 inches size with those parameters:
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I will add that object is on the layer alone and nothing is interacting with it.
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Your file helped me a lot, Larry. But I still think I got some nasty bug in my original file and I will explain You, why I still think that.
When I opened Your file the shadow was flawless. But when I copied the object You sent me to my old file to replace it, the line appeared in the exactly same place. I thought that maybe, in some weird way other layers and objects mess with that effect but no... When I started to copied objects FROM my old file to YOUR new fixed file, shadow remained nice. So it seems that my old file is somehow corrupted (calculating gaussian blur seems to be the problem there), on the new file - where ALL parameters are the same, all the layers and shapes are the same as in old file except for Your "Drop Shadow" effect - there is NO such problem. Look:
My old file after copying Yours fixed object (line again!):
And here Your file with all the rest of my graphics:
So thanks to You, I may keep on working on my project but the mystery remains.
Cheers,
Ania

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I don't know how to word this properly, so I'm sorry if I'm doing this all wrong! I'm having a problem with my document in indesign. I have placed a jped image on the page to serve as the background image. I did this on the master page. I first noticed this problem when I was trying to put a .psd image onto the page. When I did, it would cause the entire page to dramatically brighten! I finally gave up and moved on, and now I ran into the problem again when I created a new rectangle box. I put a drop shadow effect on the box and when I did this, it also made the entire page lighten up. Any suggestions on how to fix this problem??
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