Its tools are more closely geared to create smooth effects on things like text. Normally, for this type of project, I would recommend working with Illustrator instead of Photoshop. If you are increase the overall file size, it would probably be best to rasterize the layer effect (along with the text) before doing so to keep the smoother lines you see at smaller sizes. If perhaps you meant Image Size instead of Canvas Size, and you greatly increase the size of the file, the quality of drop shadow may be dropping significantly. One thing this brings up though is how drop shadow quality is lowered the larger it gets. But it would not change their shape in anyway. If the Size or Distance of your drop shadows made them so big that they moved off the page, you could increase the canvas to make room for them. It just determines the usable area of your image. It wouldn't have anything to do with this issue.Īlso, Canvas Size wouldn't have any direct effect on this issue either. It simplifies things so all of your drop shadows across different layers all look like they are being cast from the same light source.
To clarify, Global Lighting is a way of syncing the settings between your different Layers Styles that use the Angle setting. I'm wondering what changed between those screen shots and the file you provided. I notice that the text is already rasterized, but if I create a new layer of text and move the drop shadows to that, it still looks the same. However, the issue has already occurred with the file and it doesn't look as smooth as your screen shots. I played around a lot and couldnt find a solution. I adjust the canavas size to see if making it conform to the size of my text + drop shadow would stop it from changing shape, I read something else stating the size of the canvas is what the drop shadow is applied to in render & export, and what i was viewing was just what was rendered in a smaller sample space for faster loading. 100% opacity, normal mode selected, 120^ degrees positive, i toggled global lighting to see if this would make a difference, it did not. From there Ill select my color, put in my adjustmnets for size shape and distance. Then I will double click on the window and select drop shadow.
From there ill right click on the layer window and select rasterize type. Create a new layer, fill in my background color, ill create some text, move it around change the sizes and shapes so that it conforms the way I like. I will open a new document, set it to 1080x1080 pixels with a vector background. Adobe After Effects CC 2023: Stacked Drop ShadowsThis tutorial is will show you how to use and animate the Stacked Drop Shadow Effect in Adobe After Effects. That's the one I update/use the most.Brentt, I shared a PSD file in my reply to Jeffrey linked as a drop box. To create the final clip in this tutorial, I used New York City Subway Train Arriving by Shutterstock contributor Duncan Frazier: Step 2 Start adding your text, making it into 3D layers by checking the 3D box on each text layer. Not sure why I have the 8-bit still on my desktop computer. Step 1 Go to File > Import > File and input your footage of choice. The missing effect is 8-bit and the current effect is in the Perspectives Effect folder and is 32-bit.I just looked at the effect and apparently: Image w Levels effects to approximate the look of yours. Layer set to Screen Mode and Opacity around 35. Now, I just got an email saying my image had been approved by moderators.? Shouldn't it say "image is pending moderator approval" instead of "forbidden"? Adjustment Layer with Levels (darkens image), masked across the bottom part of the screen. Sorry, I would like to post an image of the pop-up warning, but the forum editor says that the image file type I'm trying to upload is forbidden. or even more perplexing, have an "older" version of it? how could I have possibly "lost" this effect on my laptop. Drop Shadow, to my knowledge, is a native effect.
From there I did another one, of greater distance and size, and repeated those steps. So i took some text, moved it around and put it in the spots I wanted, I rasterized each layer of text, marged them all together, and then applied a drop shadow to act as a color border around the text. When I load a current project on my laptop, I get a warning that says I need to go Download the missing effect: Drop Shadow. Drop Shadows changing shape when exporting or rasterizing. I am using the latest AE on two different machines (desktop and laptop when away from office).