How to Create a Drop Shadow in Photoshop

Use Photoshop's Drop Shadow effect to make art jump off the screen!

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Photoshop

1. Open Photoshop 5.5 and create a new image file measuring 300 by 300

2. pixels.

3. Set the resolution to 72 pixels per inch and the mode to RGB color.

4. From the Layer menu, choose New and Layer. Click OK.

5. Select the Paintbrush tool and choose a light foreground color. Paint a shape on the canvas.

6. From the Layer menu, choose Effects and Drop Shadow. Click OK.

Tips & Warnings

• This effect can be applied to any object on its own layer.
• You can change the Drop Shadow's attributes in the effects pop-up window.