Comments on: Editing a Drop Shadow

By: Venkatesh

Venkatesh — Thu, 19 May 2011 12:57:38 +0000

Its the ultimate tutorial i got . Thaks a lot

By: Candice

Candice — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:21:08 +0000

Actually, in CS5 – if you make the drop shadow, keep the layer selected, go to Layer>Layer Style>Create Layer, it will work. Then you can edit the drop shadow layer. (Worked for me anyway, I was just trying to erase part of the shadow, nothing fancy.)

By: Kathy

Kathy — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:17:20 +0000

Ray – I just got CS5 and I was having the same problem. If you make the dropshadow under Effect / Stylize it doesn’t give you the old option of the check box with separate layers. However, if you make the shadow and then go to the Objects menu, you can select Expand and it separates them. sorry if you figured it out already – I was just looking for help on this today and I stumbled onto the answer.

By: Ray2447

Ray2447 — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:47:09 +0000

It doesn’t work in CS5. I’ve been going nuts following different directions given to me and going over the details with a fine tooth comb. Nothing works. What a pain.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:48:18 +0000

You are sooooooooooooooooooo wonderful!!!!!

By: Marianne

Marianne — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:08:55 +0000

Have been searching for hours for this. I knew at one time how to separate effects into their own layer, but didn’t recall the steps when I needed it. I appreciate your tutorial, it helps a lot further than just separating the effect into the layer. Thank you, I’ll be back!

Marianne

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:20:01 +0000

Great site, I’ve already found 4 tutorials that were very useful to me, and it’s only my first day of skimming through the tutorials! Keep it up!

By: Margaret Morris

Margaret Morris — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:43:03 +0000

I took a class in Photoshop about a year ago and they showed us how to separate a drop shadow from its object. Knowing that it was possible to do this in Photoshop, I have since tryed to remember the steps, without success. I really needed this effect this week and found just what I was looking for on your tutorial site!

Thank you so much for this tutorial! And thank you so much for this great website!

Loving PlanetPhotoshop.com,
Margaret