Drop Shadow Problem with background color

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November 24, 2023
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I have Adobe InDesign CS6. My pages have some background color. When I use "drop shadow" on a text field, the background color gets changed in this text field. It looks ok on the screen, but not ok on a print (see attached picture.).

How to

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Steve Werner

Community Expert

Bob is right. You'll find it here: Edit > Transparency Blend Space.

https://www.printingforless.com/Choosing-a-Transparency-Blend-Space.html#:~:text=Where%20Do%20I%20Find%20the,see%20this%20set%20to%20CMYK.

Brigit AnanyaAuthor

Inspiring

OK, I set Transparency Blend Space to Document RGB, since I specified the background color of my page as RGB. But the text frame with the Drop Shadow still shows a different background color. SJRiegel said the default style of text frame is set to Basic Photo. So I selected my text frame and went to Windows>Styles>Object Styles, said [Basic Text Frame], and applied it, but this removed my drop shadow.