Inner Shadow, Bevel, Emboss FX

Please can you add effects readily available in other Adobe CC apps like InDesign, Photoshop, Fireworks, etc. It would be a really simply coding to get it right, as we can already do it with a very long method of cropping, masking and other work-arounds.
Please add support for:
Inner Shadow
Bevel
Emboss

Yes please Illustrator Feature Requests!
I posted a feature request for this too, but got nothing but crickets, haha.
Especially inner shadow, seems odd that Indesign has had this effect for god knows how long yet Illustrator misses out...

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Inner shadow effect and layers in PSE 9

Hi,
I was wondering if someone could assist me.
In PSE 9, I opened a photo>selected it>created a new layer and applied an inner shadow without a problem. However, when I selected the TEXT tool and wrote some text in a new layer on top of the photo and dropped a shadow and/or bevel on the text, the text appears blurry and the shadow effect doesn't look right. I tried the same effects on the text wihtout adding an inner shadow to the photo underneath and the text looked great. Any thoughts on what I am doing wrong?
Thanks!

Try right clicking on the T symbol in the tool box and choose Horizontal Type Mask Tool.
Then type your text and see if adding your layer style looks any better.

Illustrator Bevel & emboss

Has anyone come up with a better solution that using 3D Extrude & Bevel to simulate Photoshop's Bevel & Emboss. I cannot get the smoothness or dark edge colors as in the Photoshop example underneath(the green to dark green gradient filled bevel)
My doc raster effect setting is at 300 dpi.
I was hoping on rebuilding this in Illustrator to get a harder edge on the white outline, and just better quicker control for spot colors. I am not to worried about the bottom of that lowercase a going strange as a handle pull may fix that. .

I've been attempting to do this too but with poor results.
Reckon it's better to do it in Photoshop until they improve Illie's abominable 3D thingummy.
You can still do your white contours and drop shadow in Illie though. Make paths from the lettering selection, copy to Illie and give stroke and fill.

Mimic Photoshop's Bevel & Emboss layer style in Illustrator - how?

Having searched for topics akin to my question, I have only really found tips on how to achieve a bevel and emboss on type.
Here's what I'm trying to create... all using CS4...
I have an artwork, all in Illustrator so far. It has background images of people (as cut-outs), imported from Photoshop, with layer masks, saved as PSD's, to preserve transparency around the figures, which allows me to compose them over each other and other various component graphics, resident in the Illustrator document. This helps me keep all the graphical elements fully editable in the design/layout as only the people come from Photoshop.
The design has been finalised with the addition of a bevel and emboss layer effect, to the whole bounding box area of the design. I.e. the complete 900 x 700 pixel area is affected by the bevel and emboss - all the various underlying pixels of photoshop elements and Illustrator elements.
So far, I have only been able to achieve this by taking the whole thing back into Photoshop, as a single layer and then applying the Bevel&Emboss layer style effect!
Is there a way to keep this all in Illustrator?
It seems daft to have to go back into Photoshop just for the B&E effect... and a little dangerous, in case this step gets overlooked in the future!
My current thoughts involve a couple of shaped blends with a screen and multiply overlay setting for the light and shaded edges... but this is just my mind clicking!
Would love to know if this can be achieved in Illy.

Out of curiosity... and to better understand what Illustrator can do, I'd like to try both of your methods.
However, I'm a little lost with your explanation of the second method...
Can you expand on giving the "L" shaped path (that has been outlined): two fills?
Or the rectangle that has been outlined: four fills?
How do you give a shape more than one fill, gradient or otherwise?
And how do you deal with the light and dark intersections of the two grad styles (as appears in the bottom left and top right corners), did the 45° meeting point just happen or do you have to alter the geometry?
Any chance I could have the .ai file to pull apart?
Another method I found myself, after some experimenting is as follows...
Dotted white line = page/design bounds.
Give 'Shape A' a white drop shadow (Effect > Stylise > Drop shadow) with a "screen" mode and positive values for X and Y offset. This gives a light shadow below and to the right.
Make 'Shape B' a Clipping Mask for 'Shape A' - this leaves nothing but the drop shadow showing.
Give 'Shape D' a black drop shadow (Effect > Stylise > Drop shadow) with a "multiply" mode and negative values for X and Y offset. This gives a dark shadow above and to the left.
Make 'Shape C' a Clipping Mask for 'Shape D' - this leaves nothing but the drop shadow showing.
Here's the result...
Put the new geometry (light and dark bevel shapes) on a layer at the top and, hey presto, they'll influence anything on levels below.
Only downside of this method is that the drop shadows can take a while to render, each time they are adjusted, so it's worth turning them off (or hiding their layer) while working on other areas of the design.
Also, with all of these methods, you don't get quite the same intersections at the bottom left and top right corners, as you do with the bevel and emboss layer style/effect in Photoshop... but that's being really picky!
Thanks for helping with this and hope it helps others.
Still want to work through your methods though.

Is there a way to make the Inner Shadow to only render over the fill, and not stroke of a rectangle?

To be precise, I want to recreate this button in Fireworks (original here):
I created a rectangle with the stroke set to the dark orange color, and the fill to the light yellow color. Then I wanted to add a white inner shadow with 50% opacity to make the effect that's visible in the inner top, left, and right edges. However the shadow is also affecting the stroke. Is there a way to make it only affect the fill?
Thanks.

Actually, you can control the stacking order of filter effects. So you could apply the Inner Shadow effect to the object without the stroke, and then add the Stroke via the Photoshop Live Effects (at the bottom of the Filters menu).
Both this and the Gradient Fill options would allow you to save the appearance as a Style, where it could then be applied to other buttons or objects.

CS3: Inner Shadow crashes InDesign

When placing images in large documents (1745 x 995 mm) and using the effect Inner Shadow on the image, InDesign crashes when exporting to PDF.
This is a real puzzle cause when I use the same image with that effect in a smaller document (A4) I have NO problem in exporting the document. Why is that? Is there a work-around, some settings I've missed or an upgrade that fixes this problem (I have IND CS3 5.0.3).

I've isolated the problem. Took me about 15 InDesign restarts.
The problem has nothing to do with PDF settings (I tried all the defaults with or without transparency. High-res and Low-res. RGB and CMYK). InDesign crashes when it's trying to download the image with the effect. It doesn't really get to making the PDF.
The problem is...The file size! I tried it with different kind of file-types (jpg, tif, psd - 8 bit, RGB and CMYK with or without icc-profiles)No matter what kind of file InDesign crashes when handling the effect on the image (120 MB). When I used another smaller image (only 20 MB) or the same image downsampled, InDesign made the PDF. So it seems to be the amount of pixels in the image that has an effect on InDesign handling the effects.
Has this something to do with my hardware (PC, 4 GB RAM, 8*3158 MHz processors, Virtual memory: 3 GB) or is it the software?

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!

Bevel & Emboss effect not visible in flattened image

I created a file in .psd, with several text layers to which I applied effects (fx) such as stroke, bevel & emboss, outer glow. When I flatten the image, the outer glow and stroke remain, but the bevel & emboss effect is gone. Type is a single color without the 3 dimensional effect.
I am also not able to preserve the bevel & emboss look when saving as a jpeg or a flattened .tif or .pdf. A saved .tif or .pdf with layers shows the effect just fine, but if the pdf is opened with Acrobat instead of Photoshop, the effect is not visible.
This must be a new problem, because I found a file that I created several years ago that is a flattened .tif with the bevel & emboss effect preserved.
I tried rasterizing the layer, and the type. Tried converting to 16 bit changing mode to CMYK, and multi-channel. Everything that involved merging layers lost the bevel & emboss effect.
Any ideas on what I can do?
Thank you for the help!
Cindy

Hi Trevor,
Thank you for the help. That didn't do it, either.
I did figure it out, though. My problem was that I was making a very large image (36" x 28"), and was viewing it fit to the computer screen size. What I needed to do was view actual pixels and tune up the layer style at that size.
All is well, and I sure learned a lot!
CD

Inner Shadow missing feature?

I'm looking for a better alternative to my current vector graphic applications, mostly to create modern web and application UI's.
So I downloaded the trial version of Illustrator CC, to see if I should make the jump to Illustrator for vector work.
After using about half a day to learn the applicaiton and do some experimentation, I was going to apply an Inner shadow to some text on a button, to make it look indented, and was like "What the.....where's the Inner Shadow Effect?".
I could see the Drop Shadow feature, and there's an Inner Glow feature (can't be offset), but that doesn't solve the problem of making shapes and text look indented.
If anyone doesn't know what I mean, just browse 'Inner Shadow' on google, it's such a fundamental feature.
Photoshop has it.
InDesign has it.
Fireworks has it.
Even Sketch, the app for Mac has it. And Acorn has it as well.
Hell, I can even write it in CSS3:
.example {
-moz-box-shadow: inset -5px -5px #888;
-webkit-box-shadow: inset -5px -5px #888;
box-shadow: inset -5px -5px #888;
So I looked around the web, and realized Illustrator has no Inner Shadow feature (!!), but there are work arounds. Here's an example:
http://vectorboom.com/load/effects/innershadow/3-1-0-257
(Or this:)
http://www.webdesign.org/raster-graphics/fireworks/mastering-shadows-in-photoshop-illustra tor-and-fireworks-who-s-the-winner.19730.html
Sorry, but when you are used to applying something so fundamental as Inner Shadow, to make your shapes and texts look indented with a single click (and easily adjust it live and experiment), then it's hard to get used to Illustrator.
And when something so basic is missing, then you can only fear what else will also hinder you, as you continue to learn the application and try to make the switch.
Looking at the forum and others who have requested the same thing, and for so long, it sadly also says something about how much adobe listens to the community.
Sorry but this is a deal breaker for me, and my trial stops here.
I'm sure Illustrator can do a lot of other fancy things, but since it still havent figured out the fundamentals (shadow and indented), I'm not buying.

Yeah Photoshop, and most other vector applications I've tried (even CSS3 stylesheet has it!).
I searched the web and found out this feature has been much requested and needed for many many years.
What I get from that, is that Adobe is not a developer that listens to it's community. And that's what I get from just using the Trial version of their latest software, Illustrator CC...there is no excuse for not having inner shadow in a vector graphics application, especially not one that's this expensive, just makes it embarrising.
Damn, I was hoping to switch to Illustrator...

Inner shadow box with paper fill overprinting?

(Mac Pro 4,1 / 2.66 GHz Quad/12G InDesign: CS6 / Ver. 8.0.2)
I have 2 boxes filled with paper and Inner shadow effect with black (created in InDesign), Background is a 4 color linear gradient (left is 4c green, middle is paper, right 4c green) from Illustrator.
The Inner shadow box that is close to the top of gradient (more green than white) is ok.
The Inner shadow box that sits on the paper fill of the gradient, appears to be overprinting, thus no paper fill.
I have check fills of the Inner shadow box in InDesign, to make sure it is not overprinting.
I have tried some tricks but nothing works.
Ideas anyone?

I found the solution:
You should never use white as a color in a gradient. I have always been told to use 5-10% of the gradient color.
This gradient create in Illustrator using:
left is 4c green, middle is paper, right 4c green
Solution:
Duplicated the green and made a spot
modified gradient to:
left 4c green, middle 8% of Spot green, right 4c green
Been a few years and I forgot prepress 101, white is not a color and should never be used in a gradient.
Hope this helps someone in the future.
Thank you Leonie15

Inner shadow style displays wrong angle

In Encore CS3 the basic sytle +inner shadow diplays the shadow at 0 degrees and not 135 as shown in the thumbnail. Is there a work around for this.

Its the inner shadow that I need. If I import a button directly from a pdf file its ok. If I put the style in the style library it fails.

Inner shadow

Hi,
In InDesign CS3 there is an option to create an inner shadow in a vector object. Is it possible to do the same in Illustrator CS3.
Thanks,
Meryl

Not as an effect. You can accomplish the look by:
 
 1. Duplicate the object or text.
 2. Offset the front object.
 3. Blur the front object.
 4. Select both objects and select "Object>Clipping mask>Make (Cmd-7)
 5. Select just the mask object (the back object) and fill it with the intended shadow color.
 
 
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PS Elements 12 - Unable to Bevel & Emboss / chisel hard

Hi,
I am using PS Elements 12 and I am unable to Bevel & Emboss / chisel hard. (I am trying to create metallic font)
See point 12 below;
Metal Text Effect In Photoshop
How do I complete this task on PS 12? The structure and shading dialog boxes are not in PS12 as they are in the linked explanation.
"Bevel and Emboss from the list of layer styles that appears" I cannot see this.
Thanks,
John

I am having the exact same problem, and I see that many others are having similar issues as well. You can see similar reports on Amazon if you look at the people giving this product 1 star. I have tried everything I've seen recommended on the Adobe websites to no avail, and I guess my only option is to try customer support, but I'm not looking forward to hours on hold. I have PSE 11, so I might just return this product and wait for PSE 13.

In Adobe CC 2014 has the styling options been removed for gradient fills and inner shadows?

I was just setting up a simple button and can't seem to find the way to fill it with a gradient fill or apply an inner shadow to one of the states.

Hi Gary,
Here is the option for the gradient fill, http://prntscr.com/3woegn and here is the option for the inner glow, which can be used to create the effect of inner shadow, http://prntscr.com/3wofmd
- Abhishek Maurya

Image: How can I set the inner shadow and inner glow

Hi
How can I set the inner shadow and inner glow of a picture in a graphic frame? Any ideas which boss is to use?
is there anywhere an example?
Thanks
Hans

Hi I try to change the attributes (inner shadow and inner glow) using the following code: int CTest::test(UIDRef uidRefPageItem) { int iErr = ERR_NO; int iReturn = -1; UID uidColor = -1; IXPAttributeSuite::AttributeList oAttrList; IXPAttributeSuite::AttributeTypeAndValue oAttribute; do { // Interface atrribute utils Utils<IXPAttributeUtils> ipAttributeUtils; // Set attribute list { IXPAttributeSuite::AttributeTypeAndValue oAttribute(IXPAttributeSuite::kContentInnerShadowApply, kTrue); oAttrList.push_back(oAttribute); } { IXPAttributeSuite::AttributeTypeAndValue oAttribute(IXPAttributeSuite::kContentInnerShadowBlendMode, kPMBlendNormal); oAttrList.push_back(oAttribute); } { IXPAttributeSuite::AttributeTypeAndValue oAttribute(IXPAttributeSuite::kContentInnerShadowOpacity, 50.0); oAttrList.push_back(oAttribute); } UIDList uidList(uidRefPageItem); // Kommando ausführen iReturn = ipAttributeUtils->ApplyAttributesToPageItems(oAttrList, uidList); if (iReturn != kSuccess) { iErr = -1; break; } } while (kFalse); return iErr; } iReturn is success, but this code doesn't change the attributes for an inner shadow. - What could be wrong? - Is it right to use the uid reference from the page item or is it neccessary to use the uid refernece of the image? Thanks for the support. Kind regards Hans

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