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Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 8:47 pm Post subject: Drop Shadow effect
For my sins, I've been elected to design a new membership card for my local Sports Club. (Hah! Sports Club. More like Drinking Club). Anyway, no big deal, the card is designed and everyone is pleased with it. As there are to be 3 separate cards with different coloured backgrounds, I performed the task of background creation and then proceeded to move the layers (drag and drop) from the original .psd to the new files containing the other coloured backgrounds. The original text and graphics employed the ubiquitous 'drop shadow', and I expected this to be easy. Not so. When I do this, the 'shadow' is there but the apparent lighting is reversed and looks, well...awful viz: In the original the lighting is from top left and the shadow appears bottom right. In the new files the lighting appears top right. The shadow, bottom left. DOH! Could some kind soul edify this amateur pixel pusher and tell me how to correct this, please?
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Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 6:14 am Post subject:
The image I made, blooming large, but I don't know if it will be legible smaller embedded on the forum, or if I can attach it separately, will try the latter first.
If you have the PSD then I presume you have all the layers and requisites such as layer styles etc. What I think you have at the moment is the layer style in the top left of my picture and what you want is the one outlined in red. Double click the layer style in the layers palette (drop shadow), if you don't have that visible, it is a problem in that in all probability the text is not editable. However it would not be a problem to create the text and then add a layer fx (bottom of layers palette) and input setting similar to the one in the red box-out.
Welcome to the forums jonss.
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