Shadow on camougflage Background

Hi , I have a problem with my realtrre camouflage background. When I try to put a camouflage background the upper part becomes shadowed. And even if it's a background of the realtree app. It only does it with this background. Can anyone help me ?

There is nothing wrong with drawing spot graphics in InDesign. (Why do you think it has tools for doing so?)
I did this in ID CS4 and brought it into Illy
What does "brought it into" mean?
If you copied/pasted, check your InD clipboard prefs. Do you have the option for copying PDF content turned on?
The reason such things work from AI to InD is because InD is importing the PDF content embedded in the AI file (or copied to the clipboard). The same thing works in the opposite direction.
But going either direction, the conversion to PDF "normalizes" the objects that are created using app-specific features. So so-called "live effects" become simpler constructs. The kind of constructs PDF can handle differ with the various versions of PDF, too.
Is there such a thing as a vector drop shadow?
Of course there is.
The more pertinent question is "Is there such thing as vector transparency?", which is necessary for the soft-edged fuzzy effects which most people mean nowadays when they say "drop shadow." The two shadows above are all vector. The top hard-edged one was created by the Drop Shadow Filter. The soft-edged fuzzy one is a Blend. They were drawn in Illustrator, exported to PDF (without AI editability), and then opened again in AI. They were still all vector objects after the round-trip to PDF.
So can the rasterization of transparency applied to vector objects be postponed until RIP time? (Everything is eventually rasterized—it's a question of when.) Evidently so. Again, the capabilities would differ between different PDF and (I assume) Postscript versions.
JET

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Logo with Drop Shadow on Unwhite Background

This is simplified for this discussion. Imagine a logo that's a yellow circle with a line of red type across the center of the circle slightly wider than it's diameter. Now apply a black drop shadow to the type. I did this in ID CS4 and brought it into Illy, converted it all to outlines and made a few tweaks. All is fine if the logo is on a white background, But if it's not, there is a white box around on the drop shadow where the type is wider that the circle.
Is there such a thing as a vector drop shadow?
In most instances, I will be using this in other ID programs so I might be able to bypass the Illy step and just copy the logo from one ID document to another. But the logo is also being sent out to others to use and their backgrounds might not be white.
Suggestions?

There is nothing wrong with drawing spot graphics in InDesign. (Why do you think it has tools for doing so?)
I did this in ID CS4 and brought it into Illy
What does "brought it into" mean?
If you copied/pasted, check your InD clipboard prefs. Do you have the option for copying PDF content turned on?
The reason such things work from AI to InD is because InD is importing the PDF content embedded in the AI file (or copied to the clipboard). The same thing works in the opposite direction.
But going either direction, the conversion to PDF "normalizes" the objects that are created using app-specific features. So so-called "live effects" become simpler constructs. The kind of constructs PDF can handle differ with the various versions of PDF, too.
Is there such a thing as a vector drop shadow?
Of course there is.
The more pertinent question is "Is there such thing as vector transparency?", which is necessary for the soft-edged fuzzy effects which most people mean nowadays when they say "drop shadow." The two shadows above are all vector. The top hard-edged one was created by the Drop Shadow Filter. The soft-edged fuzzy one is a Blend. They were drawn in Illustrator, exported to PDF (without AI editability), and then opened again in AI. They were still all vector objects after the round-trip to PDF.
So can the rasterization of transparency applied to vector objects be postponed until RIP time? (Everything is eventually rasterized—it's a question of when.) Evidently so. Again, the capabilities would differ between different PDF and (I assume) Postscript versions.
JET

div drop shadow hidden behind background image of div below

I am trying to show the <div navigation> drop shadow on top of the <div mainImage> background image. How can I fix the css to show it on top of the bar picture? Here is the site in progress... http://cishenanigans.com/index2012.html
Thanks!

You should use z-index. But this works only on absolute or relative positioned elements.
In your case, replace this:
#mainImage {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
height: 300px;
width: 1020px;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: center center;
background-image: url(../images/mainImage.jpg);
to this:
#mainImage {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
height: 300px;
width: 1020px;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: center center;
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Why does placed eps file containing a drop shadow lose transparent background?

When I place an eps file from adobe illustrator cs6, which has a drop shadow, into InDesign the file loses its transparent background and comes in with a solid white background. I'v selected the "Transparent" radial button in Illustrator while saving the file to eps but it doesn't work. Any ideas???

EPS means Encapsulated PostScript (it's really PostScript code wrapped up in a capsule that allows you to place it into other applications as an image), and the PostScript specification doesn't include transparency. That's why even though you have transparency in the Illustrator image, it's format won't translate that transparency data into usable transparency when you place it into InDesign. Lack of transparency support is one of the main reasons people recommend not using eps in a modern workflow.

Psd with shadow and transparent background

I have a psd image with transparent background and a shadow efect (color 0,0,0,100 and multiply). When I import it in InDesign, the shadow don't overprint. What can i do?
This is an example with a pentagon with shadow made in indesign and another made in photshop:

This has been requested for quite some time, and what I've heard from folks who ought to know is that there are some rather large technical impediments to implementing this in InDesign. I too hope that they will eventually deal with it, but it doesn't seem like it will be any time soon.
In the mean time, here is a link to a script on our website which will help with the "place the image twice" workaround:
http://www.premediasystems.com/scripts.html
Towards the bottom of the page, you'll find a link to download the script (which is called "Shadow-matic").
Using it is pretty simple. You place the image, and select it prior to running the script. When you run it, a dialog box will appear listing all of the layers and paths in the image. You can select any combination to be used for the "shadow" image and the "main" image. The script then duplicates the image, sets one copy ("shadow") to "multiply" (in InDesign), and sets the layer visibility and/or clipping path as you specified. It then sets the other copy ("main") to "normal" blend mode (again, in InDesign), sets the layer visibility and/or clipping path, and groups the two images together. The download includes a brief set of instructions...
It doesn't currently support choosing layer comps as Bob suggests, but that would be a good feature request .

Shadow with white background

I'm looking to film somebody and make them a shadow on a white background. Just like this picture: http://www.shutterstock.com/g/ostill/sets/3983-people-silhouette-shadow-man-woman
How would I accomplish this?

Many of the images on that page aren't silhouettes, but are just black and white photos with the blacks crushed way down. Like this one:
http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-68802949/stock-photo-woman-exercising-lying-on-back-fitnes s-yoga-stretching-in-shadow-grayscale-silhouette-full-length.html
So, do you want silhouettes, or do you want images like that one?

Annoying text shadows and text backgrounds...

I agree with Chiatanya... the text shadows are very annoying! So too are the text backgrounds. I updated from 10.2.4 and didn't have either of those problems. Does anyone know of a way to eliminate the text background and/or text shadow? Transparent color???
Please view a screenshot of what I'm (we're) talking about...
http://www.macaspen.com/text_shadow.gif

Hi Richard, when any file or folder on the destop is selected it exhibits the "text background" you are showing and when it not selected the text has a drop shadow. There may be some haxie out there that will change it for you but I know of no way to accomplish that from within the system.
-mj
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My screen is not working. sometimes there is a shadow in the background

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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.

Scrambled picture in background on photo booth

Have just installed leopard and have been trying to use the new background features in photo booth but the picture is breaking up and scrambling, i have both re started and power off'd but this has not helped. does anyone have a solution please?????

So they are "New" in that you have just got Leopard (Not Extra ones) ?
Ok they are somewhat Light and Colour dependant.
For Instance.
Lighting in front of you (Screen side) is much better than windows or lighting behind you.
Also if any of your clothing matches the background when you are out to the screen then that will show through. ( a top the same colour as the walls or a black top where the chair in view in the background is also black - that sort of thing - include dark hair where a shadow or dark background is)
Overhead lighting that is behind you can cause a sort of halo effect.
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This may be improved by increasing the lighting to reduce the effect of the Screen "Flash"
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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.

"Accepts Shadows : Only" function

I'm having a slight issue with the Accepts Shadows : Only setting in a raytraced comp.
I created a White solid as aground plane and had some 3D text casting a shadow on it, then I changed the white solid's accept shadows to ONLY (Casts shadows: Off, Accept Lights: Off). If there's a layer below the solid, it looks fine, but the problem is that if there's no layer below the white solid, then the White Solid is rendered black and the shadow is lost in the layer. I'd like the ability to render out the cast shadow of an object with an alpha channel. Am I missing something or is this a feature request?

You are just missing a simple step. Your white shadow catcher layer should be set to accept shadows but not accept lights. That way you can use the multiply mode to eliminate the white and cast a shadow on the background layer.
If you're using CS6 and extruding the type then you have to jump through another hoop because blend modes are not supported with ray tracing. If that is the case let me know and I'll show you the fix.
Here's a still of a comp setup the way I typically cast shadows in perspective on a 2D background.

Rotate front page control programmatically in front of background

In the background is a picture.
On this picture,I'd like to rotate a control formed like a box without having a shadow on the background.

Here is some code to rotate a box drawn in a picture control.
Attachments:
Untitled.llb ‏184 KB

Mac 10.6.4 and CS5 - known problems? VERY slow, long freezes

I am on a brand new 12-core (dual 6-core 2.66GHz) Mac Pro with 16GB of RAM (and of course running 10.6.4). I have a new install of CS5 Master Suite (trial version, our box has not arrived yet), and primarily in my explorations with After Effects, it is running PAINFULLY slowly, mostly around simple interface stuff like scrubbing the timeline.
But this was also very apparent during rendering - a project that took about 20 minutes on my old 32-bit Core 2 Duo Dell with 4GB of RAM and CS4 took about 14 minutes on this new one under CS5 (running with 4 cores each using 2GB of RAM, and plenty of cores and RAM left over for other system stuff)... but I could see that a lot of that was due to HUGE delays in processing time as it rendered, long swaths of spinning beach-ball time. Had it not been for those, it likely would have rendered in about 2-3 minutes (as I would expect).
I have installed all available system and Adobe updates as of today (9/28/10), I am now running the updated AE 10.0.1... and I am having the same issues, with AE running very, very slowly. Scrubbing a project is nearly impossible - it regularly sends the system right to the beach-ball for many seconds; opening one project, which took 7-15 seconds on the Windows side (an old 32-bit Core 2 Duo Dell with 4GB Ram and CS4), takes up to 4:30 on the Mac under CS5! Same project, hierarchy, footage, etc.
I tried rendering it several ways: with 2 cores with 3GB each (leaving 6GB and 12 cores for other apps), with 3 multiprocessor cores each with 3GB of RAM (leaving 4GB of RAM and 10 cores for other apps), with 4 cores with 2GB each (6GB and 12 cores allowed for other stuff), with 7 cores each with 1.5 GB (leaving the minimum RAM and cores for other apps) and with NO multiprocessing on at all. Just for the baseline, the old Dell rendered this same file in 23:49, so all of these results are an improvement over that, but not nearly enough! Those long pauses still occurred - while watching the render, I could see it fly through parts, and then choke for many seconds at a time. Here are the timing results:
Multiprocessing Off: 9:57
2 Cores with 3GB each: 14:01
3 Cores with 3GB each: 9:36
4 Cores with 2GB each: 9:12
7 Cores with 1.5GB each: 15:12
This all seems pretty *******' random, though my testing methodology was far from iron-clad, as you can see. But either way, you would think with my system specs more cores would produce better results, not worse. I would have expected the 2 or 3 core configs to produce the best results.
The horrible lags seemed most pronounced on frames that cross faded, even a very simple crossfade - there was only one of significance in my video, where two videos crossfade over the space of about a second; each FRAME of that crossfade appeared to take about 20-30 seconds to render... or more accurately, each frame would render, and then there would be one of the insane processor lags. No lags this bad or pronounced happened on the Dell side - it was slow all around, but consistent.
Now, I did some tests with Activity Monitor open, and discovered some interesting things. When rendering with multiprocessing, each core used for rendering shows up as a process called "aeselflink" (as I'm sure you know), and at least a few of them are always at the top of the list, if you view activity by % CPU.
What was interesting is that while the render was actually processing (I could see motion in the render preview, as opposed to when it was choked), the CPU usage graph looked as you'd expect, going up and down between 5-50% of the CPU use. But when it stalled out and choked on a frame - or whatever it was doing - the CPU usage in the graph would PIN to the top as completely maxed out, with between 98 and 99% of the usage going to % User.
When those lags happened, the aeselflink processes often showed up as EACH using anywhere from 200% to 900% of the % CPU. Sometimes they were all pinned up there; other times only one or two seemed to demand that much time. Sometimes, however, things choked and the CPU usage graph showed NO activity, plain black idle for many seconds at a time. This doesn't seem to reveal much to me, but maybe smarter people can get some info from it.
Also, sometimes when starting a render, the aeselflink processes would show up in the Activity monitor normally, not demanding much time, but for a good long time (1-2 minutes) the main AE application process would show up red, saying it was not responding; during this time, the CPU usage graph showed almost no activity at all, just 0-10% User activity.
Whew. Ok, there's my random smattering of data. I hope this helps give someone in the know a better picture of what's going on here... this is a huge problem if it can't be addressed.
Matt

From the initial description this sounds a lot like the problems I've been having with rendering in After Effects CS5.
I have read a lot online about hyper-threading being the cause and have been adjusting various settings with multiprocessing and turning hyper-threading on and off. So far nothing has been able to give me consistent processor use during renders or reliable render times.
Here are the details of my set up:
Big Bad MF Mac
12 core Mac Pro, 2 x 2.93 GHz 6 core Intel Xeon, 32GB of RAM.
Boot Drive is 1TB
3 additional 2TB Hard drives RAID 0 for a 6TB Media Drive
Mac OS 10.6.4
After Effects 10.0.1
Project details are:
1920x1080, 23.976 FPS
Footage is all uncompressed 4:4:4 AJA Kona 10 bit RGB captured using Final Cut Pro from a Sony F950.
Project Color space is Apple RGB.
Using Keylight 1.2 to Key video and then placing the footage as a 3D layer, with several other 3D layers with 2 spot lights on the footage to generate shadows on the background layer.
Only effects used are Key Light 1.2, Levels, Hue and Saturation.
Output is 1920x1080 Animation codec quicktime at 100%, 48Khz Audio.
Multi processing is enabled. I have experienced the problem with many different settings.
Current settings are:
5GB for other applications
12 CPUs used for other applications
2GB per core.
All source footage is on the RAID. All output files are being written to the RAID.
Renders are amazingly inconsistent. Processor activity and render times are dramatically different when performing render tests with the same composition and identical settings. I regularly get the spinning beach ball and rendering pretty much stops for long periods of time. When watching the processors via activity monitor I have noticed many times that rendering starts out strong, peaking all processors being used regardless of multiprocessing settings. When this is happening the render looks like it is progressing as expected. Then after some period of time, sometimes 2 minutes, sometimes 10 minutes the processor use drops off and rendering slows to a crawl. When this happens the whole computer suffers. I can't even use a web browser.
After extensive testing I have noticed that I have my best luck setting up several items in the render que. Save. Quit. Restart. Turn off hyper-threading after restart via the processor pref pane from Apple. Open After effects and render. The problem will still occur, however if I'm lucky I can get good render performance for 10-20 minutes before the system starts to lag again. This is completely killing my work flow. I don't know what's going to happen from one render to the next.
I know this computer can scream under some situations, but something is terribly wrong here. This computer is not living up the hype on the Apple web site about Apple and Adobe After Effects.
Please help.
I'm going to add some more information just in case some engineer at Adobe gets his hands on this. HINT HINT
I set up a render before I left work last night. It was 7 clips as described above. I forgot to include the scrubbed audio to one of the comps so I went back and re-rendered the clip today. Last night the clip took 33 minutes to render. Today, after a restart and turning off hyper-threading. I opened After Effects, turned off multiprocessing and clicked ok. Then I went back and turned it on with these settings.
5GB for other Apps
12 installed cores (after disabling hyper-threading)
2 cores for other apps and 2GB per CPU.
So yeah, the exact same clip with audio rendered for me today in 5 minutes.
I should have some time today to run some experiments and do some testing. If anybody out there has any suggestions I'm game to try just about anything to help isolate the problem and get it fixed ASAP. I just hope this doesn't turn into one of those bugs where Adobe and Apple just keep kicking it back and forth and nothing ever gets resolved.

Animated PNG in Photoshop?

I know how to creat animated GIF files in PS without issue. Is there anyway to create an Animated PNG in Photoshop? (including using 3rd party plugins)

Has support for video formats progressed to the point where you can have a small, high-quality animated element right inline on a page without a play button? And is there (partial) transparency in any video format?
One does see such things in Flash, and I've certainly still got to go educate myself better on what can be done with HTML5.
As far as having animated PNGs, it's not hard to think of applications where elements appear to hover over other elements on the page, perhaps drop shadows on the background, and move smoothly. As a primitive example, bring up this page with a PNG, resize it, and (assuming the movement animates quickly for you, as it does in IE9) note how it catches your interest because it's doing something uncommon... We've had GPUs that can easily facilitate real-time multilayer combinational rendering for a while now. Granted, it might not be good to have EVERYTHING moving around and jockeying for position in the Z-order all at once. That could end up as a good ol' fashioned mess. But imagine the above ball rolling onto the page, and the pieces animating to show the prospective buyer how the puzzle works.
With any data on the net, it's always a given that "less is better", but data size is not the only concern. The job is being done in the first place to create value -- if no one thought that actually putting rich, eye-catching elements on web pages was valuable then all we'd have is black text on gray backgrounds.
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