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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Hi All!
I have created a style that only contains a custom drop shadow. I frequently apply this style to illustrations that I'm creating for a book.
However, since updating to CC 2014, I've been having a problem with the style. The size of the drop shadows is different on every illustration I apply it to. I originally set the style up to have a 7 px size, but now, when applied, sometimes the size is 22 px, sometimes 30 px, sometimes 5 px.
Can anyone tell me what is going on and how I can get the drop shadow size to remain constant each time I apply it?
Thanks in advance!

I believe if you create a layer style preset the Adobe store the resolution of the document that you were editing when you created the preset into the preset so Photoshop can scale the style effect to the resolution of the document you apply the layer style preset to.
Layer style setting as you know are in terms of absolute pixel. That would mean the size of the shadow would vary on document that had different resolutions, Notice in menu layers there is Layers>Layer Style>Scale Effects... and In the Image Size dialog(s) there is a check box Scale Styles or a setting Scale Styles..
If it working differently in CC version 15 then is was in CC version 14 they may be a new bug.
If you want a 7px drop shadow no matter what the documents resolution is you may be able to record an action that add a 7 PX drop shadow using the Layer Style dialog not using a preset style.
I created a Drop Shadow Preset on a 300 DPI Document distance 2 px size 7px. I then recorded an action the applied that preset and then applied the same settings using the layer style dialog instead of the preset. There is a great difference on how the two steps were recorded.
When I step through the action on a 300 DPI document the drop shadows looks the same. On a 72DPI document the Preset drop shadow looks small like the 300dpi document however the step that was recorded with the Layer Style Dialog the layer drop shadow looks much larger for it was not scaled down to match the documents 72DPI resolution.
So it look like if you use a Layer style preset from the style palette the effect will be scaled for the documents DPI resolution. Notice in the action there is a Layer Style Scale 100% in the step recorded using the layer style dialog. Where the preset DS is applied some how by Photoshop and Photoshop scales the effect....

Question about dropping frames during playback

Ok... granted my system hardware is a little outdated but... My system was running 1.5 without any problems... all I did was wipe the hard drive, reinstall the os, install CS4, install the drivers for my blackmagic SD card. But now when I render a project and try to play it back I getting drop frame errors all over the place. My video drives all check out runnning the blackmagic speed tests, I've made sure they are defragged and there is plenty of room... so the only thing I can think of is that there must be some setting in 4 that I am overlooking. I'm just shooting on DV and I chose blackmagic DV for my project settings (al playback is set to BM) and everything seems to be pointing to the video drive... any ideas what I might have missed? I've had a stable edit suite (well as stable as an edit suite can be) for so long I must be a little rusty at all those sneaky little settings.

Glad you got it sorted out, albeit with a reformat. I watched your thread, in hopes that someone could address your issue with another workaround.
As for the display (GUI and also media files), it does seem that CS4 is slower in some aspects, than earlier versions. However, with really top-line gear, most folk do not complain. I'm waiting to upgrade the workstation and the OS, before I upgrade to CS4 myself.
Hunt

Follow Up Question about shadow Images

Hello!
A couple weeks ago I asked about drop shadows set with images
and I was
given some helpful
advice. Something came up and I wasn't able to get back to
putting the
information into application until a couple days ago. Forgive
my ignorance
but another question has surfaced. Many here advocate that a
serious web
page maker learn the ins and outs of HTML and CSS. I have
been making
significant headway in both. Some unanswered questions
persist and while I
can ferit it out
through more reading and experiementing, it seems best, for
expedience sake
to ask
the question that is effecting my immediate situation. I have
three images - top, center (this one repeats), and bottom -
that I am trying
to place as a background. Here is the CSS that I
have written for the accasion, based on the advice given here
on this forum.
The problem I am having is applying the div tags in the
correct manner that
will give me the results I am looking for. Here is how the
code renders
through IE 7:
http://www.ors-llc.com/AboutORS/experiment.html.
As you see
the images are not one continuous background image. Obviously
I have
something wrong here; can anyone advise?
Thank you in advance.
#middlediv {
background-repeat: repeat-y;
background-position:center;
background-image:
url(../Sitewide%20CSS,%20Images,%20etc/Images/Background%20Images%20for%20Text%20Area/mai nrepeat.gif);
#bottomdiv {
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-image:
url(../Sitewide%20CSS,%20Images,%20etc/Images/Background%20Images%20for%20Text%20Area/mai nbottom.gif);
background-position: center bottom;
#topdiv {
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-image:
url(../Sitewide%20CSS,%20Images,%20etc/Images/Background%20Images%20for%20Text%20Area/mai ntop.gif);
background-position: center top;
<div id="centercol">
<div class="topdiv"></div>
<div class="middlediv"></div>
<div class="bottomdiv"></div>
</div>

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> Thank you! That worked very nicely. Thank you for the
other tips as well.
> Very helpful and appreciated.
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contain spaces. This
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tags in those divs. The
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here -
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>> <div id="middlediv">
>> <p>sdftgsdfg</p>
>> </div>
>>
>> There's no need to declare position:static, as it's
the default -
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>> position:static;
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left property, so you
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>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> A couple weeks ago I asked about drop shadows
set with images and I was
>>> given some helpful
>>> advice. Something came up and I wasn't able to
get back to putting the
>>> information into application until a couple days
ago. Forgive my
>>> ignorance
>>> but another question has surfaced. Many here
advocate that a serious web
>>> page maker learn the ins and outs of HTML and
CSS. I have been making
>>> significant headway in both. Some unanswered
questions persist and while
>>> I can ferit it out
>>> through more reading and experiementing, it
seems best, for expedience
>>> sake to ask
>>> the question that is effecting my immediate
situation. I have
>>> three images - top, center (this one repeats),
and bottom - that I am
>>> trying
>>> to place as a background. Here is the CSS that I
>>> have written for the accasion, based on the
advice given here on this
>>> forum.
>>> The problem I am having is applying the div tags
in the correct manner
>>> that
>>> will give me the results I am looking for. Here
is how the code renders
>>> through IE 7:
http://www.ors-llc.com/AboutORS/experiment.html.
As you
>>> see the images are not one continuous background
image. Obviously I have
>>> something wrong here; can anyone advise?
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance.
>>>
>>> #middlediv {
>>> background-repeat: repeat-y;
>>> background-position:center;
>>> background-image:
>>>
url(../Sitewide%20CSS,%20Images,%20etc/Images/Background%20Images%20for%20Text%20Area/mai nrepeat.gif);
>>> }
>>> #bottomdiv {
>>> background-repeat: no-repeat;
>>> background-image:
>>>
url(../Sitewide%20CSS,%20Images,%20etc/Images/Background%20Images%20for%20Text%20Area/mai nbottom.gif);
>>> background-position: center bottom;
>>> }
>>> #topdiv {
>>> background-repeat: no-repeat;
>>> background-image:
>>>
url(../Sitewide%20CSS,%20Images,%20etc/Images/Background%20Images%20for%20Text%20Area/mai ntop.gif);
>>> background-position: center top;
>>> }
>>>
>>> <div id="centercol">
>>> <div class="topdiv"></div>
>>> <div class="middlediv"></div>
>>> <div class="bottomdiv"></div>
>>> </div>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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Drop Shadow Question

I find in Dreamweaver's Manuel the instructions on how to put
a drop shadow
around words and text. Can Dreamweaver put a drop shadow
around a CSS layer
or box? Or does that effect need to be a graphics image?
Thank you!
Best Regards.
Webdesigner

Thank you, Nadia, for this answer. It brings up a another
question which I
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correctlyacross
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words and I'm
> sure you'll come up with some examples.
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repeat the shadow the
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>>I find in Dreamweaver's Manuel the instructions on
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>>shadow around words and text. Can Dreamweaver put a
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graphics image?
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> Best Regards.
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There's a very thin white line all around a black .ai logo I made when placed on a color background. It shows up in printing and acrobat (PDF % compatibility) too. Also, is there any way to get a transparent drop shadow (no white boxes) when saving as eps.
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Running OS10.4.11 In Design CS3, intel mac.

Is the logo rasterized in Illustrator? It sounds like something was antialiased against a white background.
>Also, is there any way to get a transparent drop shadow (no white boxes) when saving as eps
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CC 2014, Illustrator, type with Drop Shadows what's different about them?

I just tried to give a line of type a drop shadow, using Creative Cloud Illustrator CC 2014. When I first apply the drop shadow a blur shows up and the only what I can give it a shape is and by going to O inches blur. What on earth is going on...do I have a bad copy of Illustrator?
I'm using Illustrator on a PC running Windows 7 Professional, has an Haswell i5 processor and 16 GB of memory. I'm using the 64 bit version of CC 2014
When I've gone to Help it won't accept drop shadow and type for illustrator at all.
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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).
PS: If I stack video on top of video the same shadow does not appear, even if I add motion to it - so this is a title only problem.
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 mattes and fills

Hi folks
I have just composited a matte and a fill graphic over a commecial using the composite mode travel matte - luma, now I need to put a drop shadow on to that comp...but alas drop shadow does not work in the motion tab on either the alpha or fill , nor does a drop shadow effect from the effects tabs...
any ideas ?
tx in advance
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This is really a question for the Final Cut Pro forum as you are talking about Final Cut Pro functionality.
The reason you can't see a drop shadow is because you are using a pre-existing alpha clip (a clip of white and black that serves as your transparency information). The travel matte luma effect can only use the video information in the alpha clip to determine the transparency. The alpha clip is a full-frame clip so any drop shadow applied will appear outside the frame.
The best thing to do is to recreate your fill graphic in its original application, and export it with an embedded alpha channel. Then you won't need to have an alpha clip or use the travel matte-luma to composite. FCP can read embedded alpha channels so you would just place your graphic over your video, render and be done with it. Then you can add drop shadows to your heart's delight.
Andy

Changing Drop Shadow Default - PSE3, Mac

Is there a way to change the default setting on the drop shadow length of 21 to a lower number? 21 just is way too much for a layer with say an envelope. An envelope just wouldn't leave that large of a drop shadow! I'm much more likely to need to lower the size that to raise it to something over 21. Another question...is there a way to select another color for the outer glow colors?
Thanks!
Debbie

Debbie, et al,
When I spoke of "High" and "Low" it was in reference to two of the Drop Shadow presets found in the Layer Styles palette, in the Drop Shadows group. That being said, I have observed something else!
The distance of the drop shadow created is relative to the resolution of the image. The higher the resolution, the greater the drop shadow distance, in pixels, shown in the Style Settings dialog.
For instance, when I reported my earlier values of 29 and 5, I was working with a document with a resolution of 72ppi. When I apply the same High/Low styles to a document with a resolution of 300ppi, I get distances of 121 and 21 pixels, respectively. A resolution of 100ppi receives shadow distances of 40 and 7.
Thinking about it, it makes sense that the number of pixels of shadow "distance" would vary with the resolution, to represent a similar appearance for "High" and "Low" from image to image.
Of course, this will only complicate Debbie's issue of managing the initial Drop Shadow distance setting, because we now know that it varies with image resolution. *sigh*
Byron

Odd greyscale behavior when drop-shadow is applied.

I have a file with four images in it. One is RGB and three are greyscale jpeg images. They all look fine.
Now, when I put a drop-shadow effect on the images, the RGB image looks as expected; but, the greyscale images all look lighter than before.
I exported a PDF of the two pages (I made a duplicate so one page has the shadow and one does not) with the PDF-X/1a profile. All of the greyscale images look lighter, even the page without the shadow, which looks darker in InDesign. The RGB image looks the same on both pages an in the PDF.
Why do the greyscale images look lighter when a drop-shadow is applied? Or, maybe a better question is, why does the image without the drop shadow look darker? (The darker image looks more natural. I opened the Greyscale images in both Apple's Preview and in Photoshop. Preview displays the nicer-looking darker image, but Photoshop shows the images as being lighter, the way it looks in the exported PDF.
Any ideas?

Thank you for this interesting discussion.
I set the Transparency Blend Space to RGB* and now all of the grayscale images look the same. They have all taken on the darker appearance. Until, of course, when I turn Overprint Preview on, in which case they all get lighter. In Photoshop, the image seems to be in-between the light and dark looks in ID.
You know, up until today, I was feeling pretty good about color on the computer, thinking all the problems of the past were behind us. Oh well!
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Also, I set the Transparency Flattener Preset in ID to High, but it always returns to Low when I check again. Why is this? (The Low, Medium, and High settings are surrounded by brackets, like this: [Low]. Does that mean anything?) So, what does the Transparency Flattener Settings affect? A print made directly from the file? The preview in ID? I thought I had all this down, but now I am a little confused.
*(BTW, this piece will be used as an outdoor poster on a kiosk and the media company has requested an RGB JPEG file, so I will be exporting this as a PDF-X/4 and then opening it in Photoshop before saving it as a JPEG. So, I know, the best thing to do is to convert the grayscale images as RGB files and maybe even adding a little tint, perhaps. But I am still curious about the other questions.)

CS4 Drop Shadow Troubles

I can't seem to get a Drop Shadow to show. I choose the Layer, add a Layer Style via the Effects button. It shows in the Layers Palette but not on my photo
Thanks!
Sherry
Using Win Vista with all updates and all PS updates current

Paulo has one possible reason that you're not seeing your Drop Shadow.
There could be other reasons. Please give us details about the Layer structure of your image, what is one each one, and their Blending Modes, plus details on the Layer, to which you are applying the Effect. Next, what are the settings for your Drop Shadow Effect? The answers to these questions will likely direct you to the exact "fix."
Good luck, and I'll be looking for your report.
Hunt

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Guess what? I fixed it. All is well. And I SINCERELY appreciate all your help. You have restored my faith in Adobe products! I could not get any help from their tech support in India. They are clueless about everything and take up an inordinate amount of time wanting to come inside your computer each time to answer the simplest questions. I have been using PS and Illustrator since 1988 and Tech Support for Adobe used to cost $500.a year and it was well worth every penny. I would pay it and the techs were fantastic. Those people in India are ridiculous. I was considering buying my software outright. Seriously. So thank you very much!

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Need to figure out if it's just this job or all of them or at least let us know.
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Is it possible to manually cut away sections of a drop shadow?

Hello, I am having a lot of problems trying to get my jpeg to come out correct. I want an 8 x 12 piece of art. In the process of creating the image, i had to use a drop shadow. However, some of the drop shadow that I dont care about ended up going over the 8" x 12". No problem right? I simply copied the object with the shadow, put the copy on top of the object, highlighted both and made a clipping mask. The end result was perfect -- it clipped off the drop shadow that was extending over the nice white border and even off into space.
However, when I tried to export into a jpeg for print, the result had the correct size white border on the top, but the other sides were too big. Sometimes I miss a stray dot or random line that is far off of the artboard, and deleting the stray stuff corrects everything. But this time everything was fine. I realized that although the clipping mask cut off the drop shadow, illustrator still registered the drop shadow as being a part of the image and taking up space. So the jpeg doesnt show it, but the deminsions are all off.
My question is whether there is a way to manually cut off parts of a drop shadow without using the clipping mask like I did.
Thanks!

Glenn,
Depending on your version, you can make the Artboard or the Crop Area or the Crop Marks fit the part of the artwork you wish to show.
Export JPEG for print?
There are other options; if not AI, then PDF (or other options).

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