Drop Shadows
The shadow settings I most commonly use for scrapping & designing.
These shadows are the ones I use when making clusters for kits & frames and also my previews.
Download free Photoshop shadow styles here.
For photoshop & photoshop elements only.
Designers you can use them for your previews and designs.
Installation & style instructions are HERE
Settings in order small to large.
You can change the angle to suit yourself.
And change the colour to a darker version of whatever paper/element the shadow is sitting on.
*TIP* Use the colour picker to help you.
Adust the opacity of the linear burn for different papers etc…
There is a way to change the colour of your drop shadows in Elements. When you have the control panel open as shown above (but of course the Elements version), which opens when you double click on the Fx icon on your layer palette, on the right hand side next to the size slider there’s a little black box. That’s your colour picker. When you click on the box, another panel opens that allows you to change the colour to whatever you want. You can use the rainbow bar on the right, you can enter the number of the Adobe colour palette in the box at the bottom with the # sign next to it or you can put numbers into the little boxes in the middle. I like to use a slightly brown colour for mine that I obtain by putting the number 100500 in the appropriate box. Try it!
Hi Pam,
I am a Mac user as well. Anytime you click on a link and it comes up as a text file, then simply right-mouse click and download, then remove the “.txt” extension and click to download. At times, Mac’s will read the downloads as text files. I do not know the technical terms behind, I just now how to get around it.
I am using a Mac and I wasn’t able to download the shadow styles. Any suggestions why that would be?
Hi Mary,
yes that would probably be a setting for full photoshop. I’m not too sure about Elements and what it can do. The styles should work for you, as they were made in photoshop with linear burn etc… but I am guessing when you try to do yourself it won’t. It is the same for actions written in PS, they work in elements even though elements doesn’t have the same tools.
Multiply works just as good, most shadows have multiply as the default.
Megs xxx.
Thank you so much for the tips on drop shadows. I use Elements 9. I don’t see a choice for color picker or linear burn when I bring up drop shadows in layer style. Is that just in the full photoshop software?
Thank you again for your tutorials. I just started doing digital scrapbooking and just found your website.
Thanks for the style!!