Drop shadow all sides

[Paul987]

Is there a simple clean way to have the same drop shadow on all sides of a shape? I know you could make multiple images and cut bits out of them and merge but is very messy. Thanks for your help. Paul

[ElectrifieD]

You mean like it was lightened on all sides like at football stadiums

[Medley]

The simplest way to accomplish this is to create your drop-shadow, then go to Layer> Layer Style> Create Layer. This places the drop-shadow on it's own layer, which can then be resized and moved independantly of the text.

-Medley.

[Paul987]

Cool thanks

[plug-in]

Hello Guys, What I would do is use drop shadow as special effects in the layers pallette, the object on its own layer.

Then duplicate the layer with shadow, rotate the 360 degree shadow angle around that will give you most of it really easily and still editable. Depending on the object, repeat if you need more angles, could do 3 or 4 as needed.

another way would be to duplicate the object on its own layer. Take the duplicated layer behind and gausian blur it, drop out the color in that layer using curves to black only etc.

A 4 sided drop shadow though can often look like an emboss or stamped effect rather than suspended. The lighting effect of doing that kind of detracts from a drop shadow suspended element look?