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Quick Tip: How to Make a 100% Vector Drop Shadow with Illustrator CS5
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Quick Tip: How to Make a 100% Vector Drop Shadow with Illustrator CS5

on Oct 18th 2010 with 9 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Program: Adobe Illustrator CS5
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Estimated Completion Time: 2 mins

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

Learn how to create a drop shadow and an inner glow effect using the appearance panel and stroke options available in AI CS5, which is 100% vector.

 
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Sharon Milne aka ChewedKandi is an Illustrator and Writer specialising in vector art. She's from the North East of England. She's also our Editor on Vectortuts+. You can check out her website portfolio by going to ChewedKandi.net and keep up to date via her Facebook page.  

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  • Sean

    Good tutorial and useful for Inkscape users as well who use SVG, since blur won’t work depending on the DE libraries you use(qsvg for example). Just duplicate a load of strokes around the object and vary then in opacity down to zero will get you a shadow effect.

  • http://www.mrblonde.ca Mr. Blonde

    Hey good tip. And I’m sure you could refine the shadow to look more realistic. Thank you.

  • Chris

    Interesting, but way too much work for what it achieves. Plus if you need to change the color, it makes it a pain in the butt. In any case… this technique is hard to manage. No thanks.

  • mark

    when i try to watch I get the error “the video was not found?”

  • Khaled

    I can’t strangely see the tutorial ???

  • tuxuu

    For dynamic objects, like text for ex., this metod is great (make one smooth shadow and just apply to any textblock you like), for static it’s best to use blends+offset path, imho =)
    Anyway, great tut as always, Sharon.

  • Hoku

    I’m unable to view the video. I can view other video quick tips but not this one.

  • Cagri

    How is this a complete vector? Changing opacity and mode is adding raster elements, isnt it?

  • http://www.marcialsoto.com Marcial Soto

    I love her accent!!! <3