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Selling an effect with Drop Shadow

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Selling an effect with Drop Shadow

I've saved my progress as Secret panel.psd, because what in the world might be hiding behind a panel labeled craving, and it's found inside the 21_layer_FX folder. In this exercise, I want to instill just a little bit of respect for the common Drop Shadow because it can be extremely useful for heightening the realism of other effects inside Photoshop. So with craving selected, there's a couple of different ways I can apply a Drop Shadow. One is I can go ahead and double-click on Effects, or Inner Shadow or this fx icon. Any of those will go ahead and bring up the layer Style dialog box, and I would just switch to Drop Shadow, or If I want, I could drop down to the fx icon, click on it and then choose the Drop Shadow command. Now I have got access to my Drop Shadow options. Obviously, I'm going to change the color again. I am not going to have a black Drop Shadow mixed in with the nice rich brown inner shadow. That doesn't make any sense at all. So, I will click on that black swatch…

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