Copy / paste drop shadow?

[mttplbkp]

I'm trying to copy / paste a drop shadow from one image to another.

If it was just a shape, I could copy / paste the appearance... but for some reason the image itself is classed as part of the objects 'appearance' and so it replaces the whole image when I try to paste it?

[Chaitanya21936374hmkf]

Hi mttplbkp,

Once you copy it will copy all the properities from the object and paste it to another object.
There is no way to only select the drop shadow.
If you want to have same drop shadow, then you have to create an object with same drop shadow values and then copy paste it.

Thanks,
Chaitanya

[mttplbkp]

Thanks but that doesn't appear to work either... unless you mean for me to create a new image object (of the the new image), add the drop shadow, and then paste that onto the other new image... but what would be the point in that?

[AkinGn · Accepted solution]

Hi @mttplbkp, I don't think there's a way of doing that without changing the image also, as "paste appereance" doesn't paste only the effects like shadows etc. As I 'm guessing all the images have the same size, only practical way would be disabling the fill of a copy after applying the shadow, and then pasting it to the back of the other images, that way they could be used as a bottom layer object that only has shadows etc. If you come up with any other solution, I'd like to be updated, hope this helps or at least gives you some ideas.

[mttplbkp]

Thanks, yes sounds like the best way!