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Drop shadows and dynamic effects

Drop shadows and dynamic effects - Illustrator Tutorial

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Drop shadows and dynamic effects

In this exercise, we're going to apply a few more Drop Shadows, so that you can get a sense of how to edit Drop Shadows inside of Illustrator. We'll also experiment with another variety of dynamic effects, which is the category into which Drop Shadows fit, and that dynamic effect is called Zig Zag. And what it's going to let us do is take these arching whiskers and turn them into wiggly whiskers like you see here. All right, so I am working away inside of White highlights.ai, and I'm going to start things off by going over to the layers panel, and twirling open the black cat layer, and you'll see text at top here. Go ahead and click in the eyeball column to turn it on, so that we can see this group of two blocks of point text. All right, now using the Black Arrow tool, I'll click on the baseline of either of those lines of point text in order to select both of them. Then I'll Shift+click on these whiskers here, which selects all of them, because they're grouped together as well. And…

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