Adding Drop Shadows in Photoshop CS3 Tutorial

Video Transcript

"Adobe Photo Shop is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Inc., and I am in no way affiliated with Adobe. Alright, so on this tutorial I'm going to show you how to add a drop shadow just to make it look a little more realistic. What you want to do, you want to make sure the master copy is selected, like I have right here, and you want to click on the effects tool, which is right down over here, and it's actually a layer style, and you want to open up the blending options, just by clicking that right there, and what we can do is actually, go down to drop shadow, and just click on the box, and it's going to automatically bring us a drop shadow of this. There's not, we can't really see at the moment until we actually move it. So, you can use the new globe light feature in photo shop. It's actually not that new but, you can use the globe light feature where you can actually just click on there and drag your drop shadow, and you want the size to be fairly high. Like about, eighteen pixels, and the spread to be, about eight. The distance looks pretty good, and you're going to hit o.k. I kind of want to drop the opacity just a little bit on my drop shadow. So, I'm going to go back into my dialog box, and drop the opacity just a little bit, about sixty-nine, hit o.k. Now, we got ourselves a nice little drop shadow background."