Tutorial: How to create a simple drop shadow effect

Posted on March 9 by Clay

This tutorial will demonstrate how to add a simple drop shadow effect on the image.

1. Fire your photoshop and open up the image.

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2. Minimize the image you just open and go to File->New.. as shown below

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3. Drag the image to the new board you have created and it will appear as shown below

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4. Go to layers pallet and look for ‘Add a layer style’ icon and click on drop shadow

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Notice there is a lot of other style you can appear on the image but they will not be demonstrated on this tutorial.

5. Adjust the setting you prefer and click ‘ok’.

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6. Viola~

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