Thursday, July 21, 2016

Layers with different directional drop shadows in Photoshop


I am wondering how to have 2 different directional drop shadows in the one file with Photoshop. e.g. 2 different type layers — one has a drop shadow at 90 degrees, the other at -45 degrees.


Currently it seems Photoshop only lets me have 1 universal direction for the whole file, which I find really pointless.



I know how to apply different drop shadows and merge down layers to achieve the same thing, but its tedious and not exactly streamlined for making future changes to that layer.


How is this achieved?



Answer



When you are setting the drop shadow effect on an layer, uncheck the "Use Global Light" checkbox.


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