Questions tagged [drop-shadow]
A drop shadow is a visual effect consisting of drawing that looks like the shadow of an object, giving the impression that the object is raised above the objects behind it. The drop shadow is often used for elements of a graphical user interface such as windows or menus, and for simple text.
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How do I skew the drop shadow of the top logo to look similar to the bottom logo?
How do I skew the drop shadow of the top logo to look similar to the bottom logo
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InDesign PDF Export: Drop Shadow Effects are 200 DPI Low-Res
Using Adobe InDesign, I create a new document, draw a rectangle, and apply a drop shadow. Then I export the document as an Acrobat 6 PDF with "Create Acrobat Layers" enabled. The drop shadow effect is ...
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My shadow layer vanishes when I blur 1 using field blur
I have an object layer to which I want to add a realistic shadow.
I found a tutorial on youtube (https://youtu.be/5TuhBcN9k8w) and am following it to create the shadow.
I have created a dropshadow, ...
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How to create a realistic shadow like in this image below? Super Realistic one
I want to create a realistic shadow effect to my products like in this image.
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The problem is I can't understand the process of creating this kind of shadow from layer structure. The layer ...
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Creating a raised card effect in Illustrator
How can this be done? It looks like the invitations are raised. Is it with drop shadow or another tool? I'd like to be able to do this in Illustrator.
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Adobe Illustrator: Can an object cast a drop shadow without being visible itself?
Is it possible to apply a drop shadow effect to an object and then somehow make the object itself invisible while the drop shadow remains visible?
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Drop shadow in Photoshop based on image size
I'm dealing with many thousands of psd files containing product images. Most items have been separated from their original background and placed on white. They have a very slight drop shadow to ...
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Shadows in Lottie Animation
I created an animation in the following way: sketched some basic shapes in Figma, animated it using Jitter, exported the animation json and importing it to Lottie then downloading the Gif. I wanted to ...
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why blur of drop shadow becomes blocky while saving pdf from illustrator
While trying to save an ai (illustrator) file to pdf, the blur portion of drop shadow lost and it looks blocky. Please look at the screen shot of pdf below:
You can see that the blurred portion of ...
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How to make it look like the text is sitting on the background rather than floating?
I'm trying to make text look like its sitting on a background, but still have the shadow to denote the bevel of the text.
I can't figure out what to do with the shadow in Photoshop to make it look ...
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Why are object effects in my Illustrator file disappearing when I place the file in InDesign?
I'm trying to place an .ai file into my InDesign file, but for some reason it seems like the 3d effects and drop shadow aren't showing up in my InDesign file.
Here's a pic of my artboard in ...
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How to drill/cut a solid, using a text as a template?
Imagine a situation where I have a solid and a text.
I would like the content of the text to be taken subtracted from the solid behind it.
Text and solid (I did it in GIMP, which is the program I know ...
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Illustrator drop shadow around paths
I have this icon with 2 paths how can I add shadow only to the outter of the balloon?
<svg viewBox="0 0 512 512">
<path class="st0" d="M383.2,155.9c-0.9,28.5-8,...
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How to design something like this?
The shadows and the textured background. I have been trying to work on the adding noise in solid colour but have not been able to get the exact texture like this.
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InDesign - How to apply clipping mask to drop shadow
I'm working on a design with a phone hovering above a tablet, which is itself also hovering above a surface.
I'm trying to figure out how to mask this drop shadow, so it looks more realistic and doesn'...
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Manipulating Drop Shadow/Layering of Shapes: Adobe Illustrator
Never used a help forum before, but with a looming deadline, I am very open to all the help I can get!
I am relatively inexperienced with Illustrator (most of my knowledge comes from searching up ...
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Make white text standout on light backgroud
I'm designing a new jersey for our cycling team. Our logo can be white or black text, always with orange 'o' and graphic image.
The jersey is offered in multiple colors : blue, red and green.
Using ...
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How to make an overlapping shadow effect on one side in illustrator
I'm trying to recreate an effect like the iOS activity app icon where a circle overlaps itself and leaves a shadow. However I'm struggle to recreate it.
I've tried cutting a segment of one of the ...
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How can i make a rubber looking button?
I am a beginner in illustrator. I would like to make a button like this one:
See where the white light on the top left gradually fades and there is some white shade on the inside of the button as ...
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How to create dropshadow on layer with alpha transparency in GIMP?
I'm working on a project consisting of a background image with several layers on top of it. Each of the layers consists of an image with alpha transparency, such that only part of each layer is ...
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Remove drop shadow from the image
This is a chess piece and i want to remove the shadowy effect in this. Is there a way to work around this problem?
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Drop shadow for animated GIF
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I don't know, how I can to make shadow effect for animated GIF. For me good solution in any open source/free program, not Photoshop.
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For PNG images I make shadow effect. Example:
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How to not show shadow through transparent shape in figma
In figma, I have a rectangle shape which is white with 50% transparency. I want to apply a shadow only to the outside of this shape, but when I apply the 'drop shadow' effect I see the shadow behind ...
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Replicate drop shadow effect
I'm trying to replicate a drop shadow effect displayed here, but can't seem to get it right.
The project has this section which seems to explain how to perform the effect, but I feel I'm doing ...
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Adding and editing a drop shadow with original element hidden
I would like to create a drop shadow of a person, and keep only the shadow, without the original person. When I double click the layer and tweak the drop shadow setting, is there a way to hide the ...
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How to solve overlapping shadow issue?
In a UI with multiple cards arranged in a grid, the shadow of cards are falling on top of other cards. All these cards are supposed to be on the same level (elevation/depth). Is there any way to solve ...
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Blur / Drop Shadow Effect Vector Adobe Illustrator
I am start to learning adobe illustrator, I want to ask about making drop shadow / gaussian blur of an object in vector ( non bitmap / raster ) type.
I found a file and want to use it for study ...
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Gimp Drop Shadow unbound variable: WHITE-MASK
Running Drop Shadow with:
Error: eval: unbound variable: WHITE-MASK
Any ideas?
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How to create a solid black shadow behind text in Illustrator? [duplicate]
How do you create this text effect in Illustrator?
I tried creating a shadow behind the letter, but it did not appear similar to this.
Can anyone point me to the right direction?
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How to create a shadow like this corel?
With flat designs trending across the board in the graphic designing community, there have been some amazing and subtle effects out there... One of those effects is a simple shadow like the one in ...
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What is the drop shadow filter for snapshots on Mac OSX?
If someone was to match the drop shadow settings OSX adds to snapshots what would the CSS settings be?
For example, here's a blank image:
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Name the effect where text is on a shadow box over an image
Some examples with text over a transparent background:
See the transparent black background
See the text on the shade of cyan
What would you call this type of effect?
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How to make double drop shadow in Illustrator?
I want to make something like this artwork.
I tried using gradient, but it look so ugly and flat. How to achieve such shadow in Illustrator?
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Inkscape: Dropped shadows are always cut off. How to prevent this?
When applying a drop-shadow filter in Inkscape, the shadow is totally cutoff and not resized properly. The paths are ungrouped and just a simple connected path that has fill and stroke style.
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creating shadow effect
I was trying to make a rocket but I am stuck with the shadow portion. How can I create a shadow that looks like picture 2?
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Changing relative heights of objects so that their shadows reflect what the user wants
How can I change this image so that the inner circles appear like they are at the highest level? Meaning that the outer and bigger circle doesn't cast a shadow over them?
Edit1: I am using Inkscape
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How can I use the drop shadow filter on multiple paths on inkscape?
So, If I shift select all the images I want to create a shadow for, I get the following image:
A way around this would be to group the objects and cast a shadow over that, which produces the ...
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Creating a text deboss effect at small scale [duplicate]
I'm trying to create a debossed effect in a small scale. It's a coin-like layout, but not using metallic gradients:
I've been working across Photoshop for image isolation/clean up, but ultimately ...
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How to modify the size of Drop Shadow in Illustrator
I want to increase the size of the drop shadow that I am adding. In the case of Photoshop, I could change the size of the drop shadow by using the size option (and varying the spread) under Drop ...
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How to add drop shadow to a picture via CLI?
I have a bunch of pictures (mostly screenshots, but it doesn't matter) to which I'd like to add a drop shadow. (Reason for it is to add a nice border, as they have white background and I use them on a ...
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Achieving a pressed-in effect (similar to 3D "Extrude and Bevel")
I need to reproduce the footstep where it looks like this:
Having created all the shapes, I'm currently stuck with the shadow: I'm not sure how do I create it in an effective, editable way.
Here's ...
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How do I convert my Indesign documents to SVG files without losing/affecting my drop shadows?
I created documents in Indesign that have drop shadows applied to certain shapes. I'm trying to convert these documents to SVG files. Since there isn't a way to export from Indesign to SVG, I've ...
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Illustrator: gradient stroke artefacts
I am currently trying to recreate the "drop shadow" appearance effect as a vector. As suggested by this tutorial, I tried supplementing the benefits of stroke-gradients. While it did work with other ...
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Documentation on the differences of drop shadow modes in Illustrator
Forgive the noob question but I have been searching (unsuccessfully) for documentation of what the different modes in the drop shadow wizard actually do? There are more than a dozen options for drop ...
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Shadow inconsistent in Material Design Guide
I have a problem with the material-design guideline. Some references about elevation/shadow seem inconsistent to me:
At one point (https://material.io/design/environment/elevation.html#elevation-in-...
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Add shadow to a frame on a background
Let's say I want to add this photography + frame on this background. It will look "very copy/pasted".
How to add (with Photoshop) the shadow that would normally be produced by the frame on the 4 ...
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Sketch Only Apply Shadow To Outside Edge of Element
I have an element in sketch that has a lot of intersections in the middle of it - when I try to apply a shadow to this element, the shadows become visible in the middle where the intersections are, in ...
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What is the lighting logic for the box-shadows in material design?
In material design, the box shadows are defined in sets of two (https://codepen.io/sdthornton/pen/wBZdXq)
Like so (each card appears more forward than the last):
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Can I achieve shadows like this using layer styles?
I'm trying to reproduce the shadow in the image below, the two grey bars under the actual image.
I have tried using drop shadows but looks like it can't have a negative size value. Any workarounds? I'...
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Illustrator - Add drop shadow over a specific element
Is there a way to add drop shadow to an element such that the shadow only appears over another element and not anything else?
It would also be okay if shadow appears on other elements but not on ...
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