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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
Community Expert
Community Expert
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.

Known Participant
July 20, 2023

What is your idea Doug?

Monika Gause
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 20, 2023

To separate the object and the shadow: Object > Expand appearance.

The shadow options are no longer editable then of course.