RE: drop shadows.

I believe the normal way is to select the items
you want to add the drop shadow to, copy them,
paste to a new layer, fill with the shadow colour,
use gaussian blur to make them 'shadowy',
move the shadow layer behind the other layers,
reposition the shadows approx 5 pixels down and right
of the original.

Most late model graphics apps that are aimed at web work
will have a preset 'drop shadow' effect that automates
the steps for you. Macromedia Fireworks, JASC Paintshop Pro,
and Micrografx Picture Publisher spring to mind as examples.


Peter Williams
LAN Support/Webmaster
williams(at)hendersons.com.au

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org]On
> Behalf Of Kyle Matthews
> Sent: Sunday, 22 November 1998 10:13
> To: hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org
> Subject: drop shadows.
>
> 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.
>

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