S drop shadow missing after effects
The appearance menu, or appearance panel, will now show up, and you will find the 'drop shadow' effect here: Appearance -> Drop Shadow. It is alright to decorate construction, but never construct decoration. If the initial dialogue box has disappeared after applying the effect, simply navigate to: Window -> Appearance. Transparency still is a touchy subject w/ AI. Try opening a new document with the same attributes (On the PC) and pasting all objects into the other file (go layer by layer, but try the layer w/ the drop shadow first to see).Īlso, make sure the drop shadow filters are in the filters folder for both programs, they should be if you haven't taken them out (obvious.)įinally, it never hurts to keep everything updated (AI10.0.3) (obvious.)Īt the very worst, (would limit some editability) you could rasterize the shadows at your output resolution before saving it out of the Mac. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. After selecting the contents of the graphic I realized what they had done, they had applied the drop shadow. At first I thought that maybe they had applied the shadow to the image directly in Photoshop and placed it in InDesign. Wich is like the opposite to what I want with a glow. After selecting a frame and opening the effects panel, I could see that the drop shadow fx was not visible. If your filters in AI10 on the PC work in other files (either created on the PC or from the Mac) then it could be that the file itself has perhaps been partially corrupted. Hello, So everytime I add a glow in after effects, it adds this disgusting drop shadow with it. up to AI10, and ensure they scale in AI10 before proceeding, if necessary, recreate the shadows in 10 on the Mac first. Make sure you are saving any AI8 files from the Mac.