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How to Add a Drop Shadow to Text in Photoshop CC

Lesson 23 from: Adobe Photoshop Fundamentals

Daniel Walter Scott

How to Add a Drop Shadow to Text in Photoshop CC

Lesson 23 from: Adobe Photoshop Fundamentals

Daniel Walter Scott

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23. How to Add a Drop Shadow to Text in Photoshop CC

Lessons

Class Trailer

Getting Started

1

Class Introduction to Adobe Photoshop CC

02:36
2

Before you Start this Adobe Photoshop CC Tutorial

01:20

Layers

3

How to Use Layers in Adobe Photoshop CC

09:56
4

Basic Navigation & How to Combine Images in Photoshop

07:37
5

Layers - Quiz

Color & Adjustment Layers

6

How to Fix an Image Using Levels in Photoshop CC

04:03
7

How to Enhance Colors in Photoshop Using Vibrance

03:28
8

How to Change the Color of Something in Photoshop Using Hue

02:52
9

How to Change Just One Color in Adobe Photoshop CC

01:57
10

How to Make an Image Black & White in Photoshop CC

04:35
11

How to Add a Gradient to an Image & Text in Photoshop

10:57
12

Color & Adjustment Layers - Quiz

Shapes

13

Creating a Specific Sized Document Adobe Photoshop CC

04:10
14

How to Draw Star Square Circle Shape in Photoshop CC

12:01
15

Stealing Colors & Adobe Color Themes

06:39
16

Shapes - Quiz

Text

17

How to Create Text in Adobe Photoshop CC

08:09
18

How to Warp Text in Adobe Photoshop CC

01:57
19

How to Get Text to Follow a Line or Circle in Photoshop

13:04
20

Text - Quiz

Layer Styles

21

How to Add a Line Around the Outside of Type in Photoshop

08:17
22

How to a Bevel or Emboss to Text in Photoshop CC

02:19
23

How to Add a Drop Shadow to Text in Photoshop CC

03:02
24

Presenting your Photoshop Work for your Portfolio

06:35
25

Project 1 - Creating your own Postcard

04:29

Cropping

26

How to Crop an Image in Adobe Photoshop CC

03:40
27

How to Crop an Image for a Frame in Adobe Photoshop CC

06:11
28

How to Straighten the Horizon Line Using Photoshop CC

01:55

Selections & Masking

29

How to Copy from One Image to Another in Photoshop CC

06:20
30

How to Crop Images Inside of Text

09:35
31

How to Remove the Background in Adobe Photoshop CC

10:11
32

Class Project - Quick Select Tool

00:37
33

How to put Text Behind a Person in Adobe Photoshop CC

07:01
34

How to Create a Layer Mask in Adobe Photoshop CC

04:47
35

Class Project - Cut a Person out & put them into Another Image in Photoshop

08:57
36

How to Blend Fade one Image into Another in Photoshop CC

04:36
37

How to Weave Text in and out of a Photoshop Image

03:18
38

How to Select Hair in Adobe Photoshop CC

16:24
39

Class Project - Selecting Hair

01:21
40

How to Select Things with Straight Edges in Adobe Photoshop CC

03:41
41

How to get Text to Interact with Ink & Plants in Photoshop CC

13:15
42

Class Project - Text & Image Interaction

01:41
43

Selection & Masking - Quiz

Filters

44

How to Add Filters & Effects in Adobe Photoshop

04:14
45

How to Turn an Image into a Painting in Adobe Photoshop

03:12
46

Class Project – Oil Painting

00:31
47

How to Create the Dotted Halftone Poster Effect in Photoshop

06:42
48

Class exercise - Halftone

00:23
49

How to fake Realistic Motion Blur in Adobe Photoshop CC

04:28
50

The Lens Flare Right of Passage in Adobe Photoshop

03:31
51

Filters - Quiz

Smart Objects

52

What is a Smart Object in Adobe Photoshop CC

09:03

Transform & Distort

53

How to Bend a Logo onto an Image Realistically in Photoshop

07:49
54

How to make a Sky Peeling like Fabric Revealing Background in Photoshop

03:13
55

Class Project - Peeling Sky

00:49
56

How to Shrink Body Parts in Adobe Photoshop CC Using Liquify

05:44
57

How to Create Dripping Paint Text Effect in Photoshop CC

09:17
58

Class Project - Drippy Paint Text

00:52

Retouching

59

How to Remove People & Text from a Picture in Photoshop

06:56
60

Use Google Images to find your Image Before Retouching

02:38
61

How to Remove Red Eye from Photographs in Photoshop

00:53
62

How to Retouch Skin in Adobe Photoshop CC

05:22
63

Class Project - Retouching

00:47
64

Enhancing Eyes in Adobe Photoshop CC

06:46
65

How to Fix Teeth in Adobe Photoshop CC

04:33
66

Retouching

Blending Modes

67

How to Instantly Remove the White Background of a Logo in Photoshop

04:15
68

Using Blending Modes as Color Accents in Photoshop

07:10
69

How to put Images Inside a Bottle Using Photoshop

15:14
70

Class Project - Boat in a Bottle

02:15

Visual Styles

71

How to Create the Spotify Duotone Effect in Adobe Photoshop

05:43
72

Class Project - Duotones

00:20
73

How to Create the 3D Glasses Anaglyph Effect in Adobe Photoshop

06:14
74

Class Project - Anaglyph Effect

00:36
75

How to Create a Vintage Instagram Matte Photo in Photoshop

08:40
76

Class Project - Vintage Matte Photo

00:49
77

How to Create the Paper Cut Effect in Adobe Photoshop CC

12:07
78

Class Project - Paper Cut Effect

00:31

Artboards

79

How to Use an Artboard in Adobe Photoshop CC

20:14

Color Modes & Resolution

80

What is the Difference Between RGB and CMYK in Adobe Photoshop CC

07:12
81

How do you Change the Resolution to 300dpi in Photoshop CC

10:38
82

Color Modes & Resulotion - Quiz

Brushes

83

Basic Introduction to Using a Wacom Tablet with Photoshop

12:22
84

How to Create Splatter Paint Effects in Adobe Photoshop CC

08:11
85

77. Class Project - Ink Splats

00:54
86

How to Create Dripping Paint Ink Effect in Photoshop

06:46
87

Class Project - Dripping Paint Brush

00:55
88

How to Create Smoke with an Image Inside it using Photoshop CC

05:50
89

Class Project - Smoke Effect

01:03

Shadows

90

How to Make a Long Vector Hard Shadow in Photoshop

05:26
91

How to Cast a Realistic Shadow on the Ground in Photoshop

07:16
92

Bending or Curved Shadow Under an Image in Photoshop

03:33

Export

93

How to Export Images from Photoshop for Print Web & Social Media

10:18

What Next

94

What Next after your Photoshop Essentials Class

01:15

Final Quiz

95

Final Quiz

Lesson Info

How to Add a Drop Shadow to Text in Photoshop CC

Hi there it is. Drop shadow time. Okay you can see this text here, this text here both have drop shadows applied okay. It's not super hard to do but we're gonna look at it, we're gonna do it for objects as well. These stars have drop shadows. Use turn it back on. It's not gonna take us long but also I'm gonna throw in some bonus did you knows at the end so hang around and yeah let's get started to add a drop shadow to text or any object. Just make sure it is selected in your layers panel because it's light gray color. Let's go down to effects and go to drop shadow and that's how you imagined it. Okay so we'll do a couple little things just get a little bit more clued on and how it works so by default it will remember the last thing you've done so you won't look exactly like mine capacity obviously is just how C. Three nous it is. Okay I'm gonna lower mine down a little bit now in terms of drop shadows. It depends I like I like mine straight up and down like 90 degrees. Okay so it kind ...

of pokes off the bottom there and in terms of distance is how far it is away. Give that a play. Okay and the size is how kind of spread out or dispersed the shadow is. Okay so it really depends like I often just punch in three and three for these two and that's enough for what I do it's either five and five or three and three and that generally gets to the kind of preferred stuff that I like. You might hate that. And you might like a big, giant fuzzy one. So do that as well. There's no right or wrong. Let's look at two extra things. So let's click on. Ok, let's say that I like this. I don't want to add it to this layer as well so I can right click it. I can go to copy layer style. Find my scott shoes which is there it is there. I can write like that and go to paste style. I'm going to do it to these two stars as well. So the star here, can I do them both at the same time? Right click paste style? Oh, I can fancy Okay, uh this bottom one here, the opacity change. So I'm going to lower the opacity again because that's what I liked about it. Anyway, one last thing to talk about when it comes to shadows. So I've got this top Star selected and let's say, I don't like it going up and down. I liked it on the text, but I didn't like it over here. So to edit my job shadow, I just double click the word, drop shipping move the other way and let's say I want to change the angle. And what's going to happen is this guy here use global light. So let's say I move it to the side here. It looks great. But did you notice it changed over here? You might not. So um let's see it all changed. It even changed in this here. Under the bevel in and boss which we did earlier watch when I moved around. Can you see they all change? That's the use of global light. Okay. It just means that every layer style and this whole document will be affected by with the light angle and that's kind of cool right? Because you want them all to be hitting the same angles But now cast we didn't, I wanted to be 90 for them all but I'm going to for this one particular star that I've got selected. I'm going to turn off that and watch now. Just that one star is working okay And adjusting the way I want. I'm not gonna go through all the settings, you can play around with the contours and the noise and you can play with the spread. I never do though. So we're going to leave it for the moment and let you experiment. But that my friends is how to add drop shadows. Alright, next video

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Exercise Files
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Completed Files Part 1

Ratings and Reviews

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Adobe Photoshop Fundamentals is very useful for a photo editor. I learned very important tricks from this course.

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