White Drop Shadow

I am trying to put a white drop shadow on a red star. This star will be placed over a black box. I can't seem to get the white shadow to appear over the black. Am i missing something? I was able to do it in Indesign but can't recreate the effect in Illustrator.

In the Drop Shadow Effect dialog, set the mode to Normal instead of Multiply.
JET

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How to add a stroke to drop shadow like in this picture?

it seemed that it's black text, add white drop shadow, then there's a black border around the white shadow. How does this work? I need it for typesetting.

I can tell you how to do it as an effect, but not how to make a new font.
Make your type layer, and in the Character panel, increase Tracking to allow room for the effect. You can fine tune this setting later.
Add a drop shadow layer style, and make it a nice bright colour so you can see the offset.
Right click the drop shadow effect, and choose Create layer
The drop shadow will now be a separate layer, but still have Blending options so right click this layer and choose Clear layer style. It will now be a normal layer.
Double click this layer, and in Advanced Blending reduce Fill Opacity to zero. The drop shadow will now disappear, but don't worry.
Now give it Stroke using the same colour as your text. You can come back and edit this stroke setting any time. It is non-destructive.
Fine tune the outline offset with the Move tool. Job done.
[EDIT] You could save this as a new Layer Style to save a wee bit of time, but you need to go through the preliminary steps.

Thin white line around black .ai logo and drop shadow question

Hello,
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.
Thanks
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
No. EPS does not support transparency. If an area is not fully transparent (because nothing is drawn there) then it is fully opaque. PDF and AI support transparency.

White box behind transparent images with drop shadow in InDesign CC 2014 (v.10) but not in InDesign CC (v.9)

Hi all,
Please can you help? No matter what settings I use in my print options in InDesign CC 2014 (v.10), ALL transparent images with a drop shadow are printing with a white box behind the image. If I remove the drop shadow, all prints fine. I know this is an old issue that happens with ID sometimes but I have been lucky enough to never have had it happen to me before! (All images are regular flattened TIFF images with clipping paths).
Also, feathered edges are not printing correctly and are sharp instead of feathered.
When I export the document to IDML and open it up in InDesign CC (v.9) all prints perfectly with no white boxes and feathered edges prints perfectly as well. I have compared all of the print settings (including color management, transparency flattener, etc.) between both versions and they are exactly the same. I am printing to a Xerox color laser printer. Can anyone offer any advice?
Thank you so much,
Christine

Okay...false alarm! It turns out that the issue was with my PRINTER settings (the settings you customize after hitting the “Printer” button at the bottom of the Print dialogue box in ID CC. I thought I had triple checked this but it seems there was one setting I missed earlier…adjusting the print brightness seemed to cause the issue. SO GLAD to know it was not InDesign…20 or so sheets/prints later….and thankful to know what was causing the issue! Thank you so much Steve for helping at any rate:) Much appreciated:)

White boxes appear around drop shadows in PDF's

I'm exporting a file from InDesign CS3 that contains several graphics that have a drop shadow applied to them (added in InDesign NOT Illustrator). When I view the PDF, there are white boxes that appear behind the graphics with the drop shadows. I need to use the 'Compatibility: Acrobat 4 (PDF 1.3)' setting from the PDF export dialogue box.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Sometimes having drop shadows on images (imported) that have spot colors causes this. Converting them to process or RGB helps. I know that applies to imported graphics but it may apply to graphics created in InD sgn. Are your graphics set up in spot colors?

At times, the type in the bookmarks toolbar as well as the tabs changes to white with a drop shadow on a white background, making it very difficult to read. I do not know what it causing the colors to change. Is there any way to fix this?

At times, the type in the bookmarks toolbar as well as the tabs changes to white with a drop shadow on a white background, making it very difficult to read. I do not know what it causing the colors to change. Is there any way to fix this?

quick test based on screendump from your picture
1: hue & saturation : master sat -100
2:levels : input white=67
OK ?

Drop shadows show as white boxes

Please can anyone tell me why (most of) the drop shadows on my site are showing as a fine white line around the image? This is only happening on images - not text. Can I fix it somehow? Baby-talk replied here as I am new to this. You can see the problem at www.bothepoodle.co.uk

As a test, I put your "Bo the Poodle" on a web page with just a shadow:
http://web.mac.com/alanem/ArtofAwakening/Links.html
...and no white outline appears. Do you have another element such as an empty text box behind Bo?

Drop shadow white box

Hi
I am using Illustrator CS5. I received a logo from the customer with the logotype as vectors but a black drop shadow that had been rasterized, I am assuming , in Illustrator. When I print this logo on a coloured background to my Canon 5180 Image runner a 3% (approx) transparency white box appears around the drop shadow. How do I delete this??
Any help would be appreciated!
Thank you forum gurus.

Print >> Advanced Tab> Click cusotm next to preset (then drag to rasters, and raise resolution to like 900)
If the drop shadow is embedded, it will have an embedded icon (document with triangle and square)
Delete the drop shadow, and recreate the drop shadow to match in illustrator.

Save for Web is not displaying white text, only showing the drop shadow of a vector.

I just updated Illustrator this morning and now having this issue. I have two logos on the artboard. Both are filled with white, both have the same small drop shadow. The both show up on the artboard, but when I try to save for web or export into a .jpeg the white doesn't fill in on one logo, but it does on the other.
Anyone have any ideas on a fix?

Do the white objects appear when in Overprint mode?

Black drop shadow bleeding onto white text during printing (but looks fine on screen)

For my business card design I have white text overlapping an area of very white grey- causing readability issues (insufficient contrast). It looks great apart from this one problem, so I still want to keep my white text and light background and fix it by separating the text and background with a darker drop shadow..
First, I added a black drop shadow to the text- but this was not enough to increase readability (text still looked faded on background as drop shadow was too subtle at 85% opacity, 0.04" blur) so I added a drop shadow to my drop shadow (100% opacity, 0.02" blur + 18% opacity, 0.02" blur). This produced a heavier drop shadow effect for my text as desired but, for some reason, the text came out slightly grey in print (offset run). It seems the drop shadow somehow got printed over the text itself to some extent- turning the white text somewhat grey (and so not looking as clean as intended).
How could this dropshadow bleed into the text happen? Is it to do with the fact I added a drop shadow to my drop shadow? I would have thought that, even then, the text should entirely overlap all of the drop shadow as the text is the top layer in the group.
What can I do to ensure that drop shadow does not print over text in any way in future? Do I have to stick to only one layer of dropshadow-or is there something else I'm missing?

One way this could happen is if the white fill of your text was not with 100% opacity.
Also, do you see a whiter place than your text on your business card? It could be the color of the paper if you are comparing with the white of the image on screen without proper color management.

Compund path or white text ona red background with a drop shadow

I have had business cards printed before with white text on a red background & the white wasn't 'punched out' (compound path) of the red so the white didn't print - the solution I was given was to create a compund path in illustrator before saving the PDF to punch the white out of the red & that worked fine ...
I now have dilema in that we want to get some flyers printed that have red starburst with white text over them but they also have a drop shadow behind the red star burst so if I punch the white text out of the startburst the drop shadow then appears through the starburst & the text is no longer white it is the drop shadow gradient from the background - i do not know how to get around this???

As long as your white text isn't set to overprint, you should be fine. Just place your text in front of your starburst and look at your attributes panel to make sure that overprint fill and overprint stroke are not checked.
I'll bet if you go back and look at the file that gave you trouble in the past, overprint fill is checked.

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.
>

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.
For instance: Several comments have to do with older versions of things. Because I do have Pages 2, I am on Tiger OS X10.4.7 , upgrading is not my problem.
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.
What? How? Help! Please?

tried to print directly from Pages
If printing directly from Pages does not work then it must be an aspect of your printer. Some printers have a black and white setting that might not read shadows (which are more like greyscale) With the doc opened press ⌘ +p and browse through the options of the printer's pulldown menu and see if there are any settings that might be incorrect. (Check, in particular, your 'color sync' and 'print settings' options in the pull down menu.)
Kurt

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.

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