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Drop schadow

New Here ,
Oct 28, 2023 Oct 28, 2023

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Hallo! Could sombody tell me what here a problem and why I can't add the dropp shaddow? 

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Community Expert , Nov 01, 2023 Nov 01, 2023

As Kevin has said, the fruit bowl layer appears to completely fill the document so a Layer Style > Drop Shadow would be applied outside the canvas, which is a nonsense,  The bowl's background needs to be transparent.  That way the drop shadow will be applied directly to the outside of the bowl.

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This sort of object can present a problem with drop shadows as they can appear around the top of the object where there shouldn't be a shadow.  I have turned the shadow's oppacity way up to demonstrate

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Nov 01, 2023 Nov 01, 2023

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The layer selected appears to be blank. Add the drop shadow to the layer with the fruit bowl.

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Nov 01, 2023 Nov 01, 2023

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As Kevin has said, the fruit bowl layer appears to completely fill the document so a Layer Style > Drop Shadow would be applied outside the canvas, which is a nonsense,  The bowl's background needs to be transparent.  That way the drop shadow will be applied directly to the outside of the bowl.

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This sort of object can present a problem with drop shadows as they can appear around the top of the object where there shouldn't be a shadow.  I have turned the shadow's oppacity way up to demonstrate this.

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We can overcome this by right clicking with the cursor above the effect, and choosing Create Layer

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This separates the layer styles onto seperate layers that we can mask to show just the area that should show.

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Nov 03, 2023 Nov 03, 2023

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Many thanks, guys. I got it.

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