Why And How To Create Drop Shadow To Images In Adobe Photoshop

Images plays a vital role in giving a professional look to your blog. I have seen many blogs (including mine :d ) adding images without giving it a make over. So whenever you add any image to your posts make sure you add at least drop shadow effect to it.

What is Drop Shadow Effect ?

Drop Shadow is a blending option present in Adobe Photoshop. It just give a shadow effect to image. Have a look at the image below



This is the simple image I have uploaded, but after adding shadow effect to the above image it really looks attractive.



Why to create drop shadow effect ?


Adding Drop Shadow effect to images makes it more attractive and moreover gives a proffessional look to your blog posts. Earlier I also used to add images without photoshopping but after looking to some of the blogs (Thanks to Orkutplus for giving this idea) I got this idea and thought to share with you all. So lets see how to create this effect to images and text.

How to create drop shadow effect :

>>First open Adobe Photoshop and open a new image with transparent background.

Note : The transparent image should be quite large than the original picture.

>> Now open your original picture and press crtl+A(select all) and then ctrl+C(copy).

>>After copying the picture paste in the transparent background image created in first step.

>>Now select your image and in the upper horizontal bar select Layer and in the Layer Style select Blending Options. For help see this screenshot :



>> A new window will pop up, put a tick on Drop Shadow and press OK. To merge all visible layers press ctrl+shift+E

>>Congrts you are done !! Isnt that simple !!

>>In the same way you can also add effects to your text also.

From now whenever you have to add any picture to your post always add drop shadow effect.

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