Drop shadow on small images gets ragged when rotated

[Keith26697353z7es]

When I place a big image and scale it to a very small size like for example 2x4cm like in the example attached, the drop shadow gets ragged. NB this only happens to linked images and not shapes or embeded images.

The yellow square is a shape but the blue square is a large PSD image scaled down.

[Etienne26824275y1x9]

Hi, yes it is happening to me too. I always used this method in the past and never had these issues.

[kglad]

is this a photoshop question?

[Keith26697353z7es]

It's in Illustrator. 

[kglad]

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[Keith26697353z7es]

Thanks for the advice. Unfortuantely no one has replied with a solution!!!

[Monika Gause · Accepted solution]

Instead of applying the shadow to the image directly, what you can do is

In the appearance panel set up a new fill for the placed image

Apply the Effect > Path > Outline object to that fill (only to that fill)

Apply the drop shadow to that fill.

[Keith26697353z7es]

Thanks a lot for this. It is a solution!

Although I would still call this a bug! I never recall having this issue in the past. Adobe should fix this.

[barbara_a]

I'm not able to replicate this issue. Are you using the most current version of Illustrator?

[Monika Gause]

It's there in the latest version. You need a huge image.

[Keith26697353z7es]

You will only get this issue when scaling and image to the size of around 1cm having a narrow shadow and rotated.

[Monika Gause]

I'm getting that with 7 cm images.