InDesign Drop Shadow affecting objects that shouldn´t be affected

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July 20, 2018
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Hey dear community,

I ran into an issue that i don´t know hoe to solve...

Ive got multiple images with the same Drop Shadow applied, but now they affect each other, how can i solve this issue?

I already tried changing the blending options ....

(The 3 boxes should have the the same "height" as if they were floating on the same level)

Thanks in advance

These are my settings:

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Correct answer Laubender

Here the three phases:

Three rectangles with drop shadow.

Drop shadow affects other objects:

Composite path with drop shadow. Now technically we have one single object. All paths of the object are on the same level:

Positioned above the images:

Regards,
Uwe

sebastiand49063797Author

Participant

Thank You both for your fast and well explained answers, i owe you one

The last way uwe showed does the trick for me, the grouping as scott suggested wont work for me somehow. But this would be easier...

Thanks again

Scott Falkner

Community Expert

You have to apply the shadow to the group. If the shadows have already been applied it won’t fix anything. Remove the shadows, group the frames, then apply the shadow to the group.

sebastiand49063797Author

Participant

Okay maybe im doing something wrong here, let me show you what happens when i do it like this:

I maybe have to add that i am not just using the dropshadow icon, but a custom defined style to apply the effect on the object, i dont know if it is relevant tho

Scott Falkner

Community Expert

Group them. Apply the effect to the group and the shadows won't show on the objects in the group. In the image below the top objects are not grouped, the bottom ones are.