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June 15, 2005

ID: New drop shadow feature in CS2

[CreativeGuy - Graphic Design Software Tips, Tricks and Commentary] What adding Noise does to your drop shadow is it breaks up the drop shadow color into random dots, rather than a smooth gradient of color. Between using Multiply and adding Noise, your drop shadows should look much more natural, and blend much better with background colors. In the screenshot above, I have purposely exaggerated the Noise amount to illustrate the results.

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http://www.jeremyjohnsononline.com [Jeremyjohnsononline.com] jeremy johnson // design thoughts: InDesign CS2 still will not down save (not even to CS1)! This means everyone needs to be on the same version of CS (including the printers, who are always years behind).

Informit.com[Informit.com] Guides: Sometimes a drop shadow should be barely noticable; other times, ... Adobe announced Photoshop CS2 (as well as a complete CS2 overhaul for all of the ...

[Design.weblogsinc.com] Review: InEffects 1.0 for InDesign CS: An Electric Screwdriver ...: Prepress shops in particular are intimately familiar with this issue. It occurs in layout applications, usually Quark or InDesign, when the designer has made use of a document-critical plugin to provide additional functionality (for example, to increase the size of the pasteboard beyond Quark’s normal limits), then sent the document for editing/printing to someone who doesn’t have the plugin. The typical result is that the recipient receives the error and his copy of the layout application is unable to open the document.

[Irascian.com] Blog Home Page: Admittedly Ridley Scott's brother Tom manages to capture some stunning sunset shots and the aeriel shots are often stunning, but it becomes clear that there is a basic mismatch between the desire to create arty still photographs on film and the popcorn action movie that the film studio wanted. It's not surprising to hear on the extra's that the director was fired three times, or that the movie was initially a mess that was rescued in the editing room, thanks to reshoots made six months after production had shut down, and the lucky break that much of the dialogue which had been recorded by a cast wearing flight helmets could be rewritten and replaced in post-production.

http://quarkvsindesign.com [Quarkvsindesign.com] Quark VS InDesign » InEffects 1.0 for InDesign CS: An Electric ...: The one thing””and it’s a big thing””that InDesign’s native Drop Shadow has over InEffects’ is ease of use when specifying the color of the drop shadow. InEffects makes experimentation with blend transparency, blur, intensity, noise, color percentage, distance, and angle very easy, but ALAP dropped the ball on color choice.

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Posted at June 15, 2005 05:39 AM

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