Re: Drop Shadow

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You need to select the part of the image that you want a drop shadow to appear under, and make a new layer via copy of only that part. Otherwise PS thinks you want a drop shadow of the whole layer.

rebphoto <rebphoto@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have been using PS for a few years now
but as a Portrait Photographer I haven't
had any need to apply a drop shadow to anything.
 
 
Ok I open an image in CS2
I go to Layer/new/layer via copy
I go to layer style/Drop Shadow
I play with the adjustments.
I see what it does to the square
in the preview box.
I hit OK
 
Nothing has happened to the image.
It looks the same as It did before.
 
 
When I go to the layers pallet
and click on the arrow it drops
down a list that shows
Effects
Drop Shadow
 
But nothing has changed on the image.
 
 
?????????????????????????????????
 
 
Russ
R.E. Baker
Photography
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----- Original Message -----
From: Herschel Mair
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 1:46 PM
Subject: RE: Drop Shadow

If you're asking this then you must be a newbie to Photoshop so I'll start at the beginning:

At the bottom of the layers pallette, second from the left,  is the "layer-style" icon. It's black circle with a white "f" in it. If you click this icon you'll get a list of styles and the second from the top is "Drop Shadow"

Click on it and play with the interface.

(This won't work on a background layer. so you'll have to duplicate it.)

 

herschel

 

 



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