RE: drop shadows.

I'm not really sure why you would be having a problem creating the drop
shadows since it's one of the easiest things to do in Photoshop.  However,
to give you a quick lesson...
1. Make sure your image mode is set to RGB - Not Index
2. Select the white area using the magic wand
3. Invert the selection
4. Open a new layer (selection is still made on new layer)
5. Fill the selected areas on the new layer with black or gray (or whatever
you want the shadow color to be)
Hint:  Use Edit/Fill
6. Select the entire area of the new layer
7. Apply the Gaussian blur
8. Deselect the image
9. Use the move tool to move the image around to the position you want your
drop shadow to appear
Hint:  Select the move tool and use the cursor keys to count your movement -
Example: place the shadow at 5 pixels to the right and 5 pixels down
That's it - It's pretty easy.
On your image, if you want to select just the line, use the color selector
instead of the magic wand and select the color of the line - Again, very
simple operation.
I've completed both images as I've described and will send them to you
through another email attachment.

Good luck

Shay


-----Original Message-----
From:	owner-hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org] On
Behalf Of Kyle Matthews
Sent:	Saturday, November 21, 1998 5:13 PM
To:	hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org
Subject:	drop shadows.

OK, I feel stupid asking about 'one of the easiest things to do' when there
are heaps of web pages about it, but i've been to most of them, and they
don't work for me.

i'm trying to make a drop shadow of multiple elements, which are very
difficult to select, which are colour, and retain their colour, having a
grey shadow behind, in photoshop 4. hundreds of people have done this, but
every time I try, and every way, I lose the colour in the foreground - goes
black.

the image type i'm working with is at
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~jits/test.gif. basically i want to drop shadow
the text and the line, and still retain the colour.

if anyone can point me to a tutorial/web page which works, or list how they
would do it in photoshop 4, you'll end my foolish frustration.

ta,

Kyle

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