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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

If I can seperate Shadow and the original image, then I can do it by creating a shape and using clipping mask. Is it possible to separate a shadow and original image?

Conrad_C
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Conrad_CCommunity Expert
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July 20, 2023

The Drop Shadow effect is always tied to the object you applied it to. It is possible to separate them by choosing Object > Expand Appearance, and then mask out the separate image created from the drop shadow. But I think expanding the shadow rasterizes it, so that it is no longer resolution-independent. But if it works for you, expanding the appearance is one way.

 

Another method is to is duplicate the original and blur it, so that you create a shadow version of the original, then stack them. The picture below shows a rectangle with the Drop Shadow effect, on the left. On the right, the top object is the same rectangle with no effect, and the bottom object is a duplicate of the rectangle with the Gaussian Blur filter applied at 14px. Arrange those two as needed, and now you have an object with a separate shadow version of it (which would work better if the Fill was changed to Black). Now mask out whatever you want of just the shadow object.

 

 

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