Re: FLASH: making traditional drop shadows in Flash????

[Hal Medrano]

>Hello all,

>

>I was wondering what everyone has been doing when they've encounter the

>need to create a non circular drop shadow ????  (you know the one you used

>to make in Photoshop with the feather and fill tool, then moving it down

>and over a few pixels_)  I've been able to create them fine using a

>circular shape but what if I wanted to make a drop shadow that covers two

>edges of a rectangle????  Has anyone figured out a good way to do

>this,(without importing bitmaps that is_)  Well just curious what this

>list has come up with.

>

>

>Thanks everyone_

>

>Joshua Sutherland

>Pearson Education

>


Hi Joshua,


Make your shadow shape and fill it with black.  Go to Modify --> Curves -->

Soften Edges, and play with the settings (3 or 4 is usually enough for me).

This technique works very nicely for glows as well.


Cheers!


Hal




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Hal Medrano

New Media Group

U S WEST Creative Services


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