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Mohsen5EA5
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July 20, 2023
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Removing a part of Shadow

  • July 20, 2023
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Hi

I have placed a photo into the Illustrator. So I created a shadow (by Drop Shadow from Effect>Stylize) for it and I want to remove a part of this shadow. How do I do this? Eraser does not do it.

Thanx.

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Doug A Roberts
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Doug A RobertsCommunity Expert
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July 20, 2023

There is no way of actually removing it; you would need to either draw a shape and use it as a clipping mask (Object > Clipping Mask > Make), or create a separate object that excludes the part you don't want shadowed, place it under the image, and apply the shadow to that instead.

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Mohsen5EA5Author
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July 20, 2023

I tried to do it by creating a shape and using Clipping Mask, but there is a problem: The original image and its shadow are at the same layer and I can not separate them at all. The boundaries of original image and its shadow are not exactlty the same and when I use clipping mask, Original image boundary, Shadow boundary and the Shape boundary clips each other and part of unwanted shadow is removed, since boundaries I can not select only the shadow.

There is no way to select only Shape boundary & Shadow boundary. When I select on the shadow, the original image is selected.

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