Drop shadow
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Drop shadow is a Stylise effect.
What it does
Section titled “What it does”Creates a copy of the layer’s shape and composites it behind the original layer.
Parameters
Section titled “Parameters”| Parameter | Control | Range | Default | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shadow colour | Colour | Each channel 0 to 4, scene-linear | 0, 0, 0, 1 | - |
| Opacity | Slider | 0 to 100 | 50 | Per cent |
| Direction | Dial | Any angle; snaps every 15° while a modifier is held | 135° | Degrees |
| Distance | Slider | 0 to 500; higher | 12 | Pixels at composition size |
| Softness | Slider | 0 to 250; higher | 8 | Pixels at composition size |
| Shadow only | Checkbox | On or off | Off | - |
| Mix | Slider | 0 to 100 | 100 | Per cent |
| Blend | Dropdown | Normal · Darken · Multiply · Colour burn · Linear burn · Darker colour · Add · Lighten · Screen · Colour dodge · Lighter colour · Overlay · Soft light · Hard light · Linear light · Vivid light · Pin light · Hard mix · Difference · Exclusion · Subtract · Divide · Hue · Saturation · Colour · Luminosity | Normal | - |
| Matte | Layer | Any layer in the composition | None | - |
| Invert | Checkbox | On or off | Off | - |
| Channel | Dropdown | Luminance · Alpha · Red · Green · Blue | Luminance | - |
In the Effect Controls panel:
- Matte scales the shadow’s Opacity per pixel, read where the shadow falls: white casts it in full, black casts none. Invert reads that matte inverted.
What each control does
Section titled “What each control does”- Shadow colour: the colour of the drop shadow.
- Opacity: how intense the shadow is.
- Direction: direction the shadow applies in.
- Distance: how far from the original layer position the shadow moves.
- Softness: how blurred the shadow is.
- Shadow only: keeps the shadow and throws the layer away.
- Mix: how much of the result replaces the original.
- Matte and Invert drive the strength of the effect from another layer’s brightness; see Effects.