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| *NOTE* This will become much more easier and consistent with the introduction of Photoshop 7. Starting with Photoshop 7, you can expand the canvas a relative number of pixels so the exact same drop shadow can be added to a folder of images during a batch process, something previously impossible unless you stopped the action and did the math for each image. |
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| Drop shadows look best (and I feel should only be used) on a white background or else they look unnatural. The point of a drop shadow is to give the image the look of hanging on the wall in a gallery. Remember to add a single pixel stroke (line) before adding the drop shadow. It visually completes the picture so the two sides without the drop shadow don't blend into the background. | ||||||||||
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| One of the problems I encountered when setting up a batch operation to add the drop shadow to a folder of different sized images was that the size of the shadow was dependent upon the size of the original graphic. I could add a fixed sized drop shadow but I couldn't expand the canvas by a fixed amount. The canvas dialog box wouldn't recognize the + or - signs, only real numbers. The result of that was each image, if even a slightly different size, would have a different size drop shadow when created in a batch operation. Ulead PhotoImpact has a much more elegant way of adding a uniform drop shadow and can do so in a batch operation. |
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