Creating drop shadows

Drop shadows simulate light falling on an object from one of five particular perspectives: flat, right, left, bottom, and top. You can add drop shadows to most objects or groups of objects, including artistic text, paragraph text, and bitmaps.

When you add a drop shadow, you can change its perspective, and you can adjust attributes such as color, opacity, fade level, angle, and feathering.

A drop shadow applied to an object

After you create a drop shadow, you can copy it or clone it to a selected object. When you copy a drop shadow, the original and copy have no connection and can be edited independently. With cloning, the master object’s drop shadow attributes are automatically applied to its clone.

The feathered effect softens the edges of a drop shadow.

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By separating a drop shadow from its object, you can gain more control over the drop shadow itself. Drop shadows are bitmaps, so any feature or effect that can be used to modify a bitmap can be applied to a drop shadow. You can also set the rendering resolution of a drop shadow.

You can also remove a drop shadow.

To add a drop shadow

1Open the Interactive tools flyout , and click the Interactive drop shadow tool .

2Click an object.

3Drag from the center or side of the object until the drop shadow is the size you want.

4Specify any attributes on the property bar.

You can’t add drop shadows to linked groups, such as blended objects, contoured objects, beveled objects, extruded objects, objects created with the Artistic media tool , or other drop shadows.

To copy or clone a drop shadow

1Select the object to which you want to copy or clone a drop shadow.

2Click Effects and click one of the following:

•Copy effect ` Drop shadow from

•Clone effect ` Drop shadow from

3Click the drop shadow of an object.

You can also use the Eyedropper tool to copy a drop shadow. For more information, see “To copy effects from one object to another object” on page 80.

To separate a drop shadow from an object

1Select an object’s drop shadow.

2Click Arrange ` Break drop shadow group apart.

3Drag the shadow.

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To adjust the resolution of a drop shadow

1Click Tools ` Options.

2In the Workspace list of categories, click General.

3Type a value in the Resolution box.

To remove a drop shadow

1Select an object’s drop shadow.

2Click Effects ` Clear drop shadow.

You can also remove a drop shadow from an object by clicking the Clear drop shadow button on the property bar.

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copying three-dimensional effects	effects, copying
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