I know people have been asking for this one for a long time, and I just saw it appear in my editor screen today - the ability to add a drop shadow to our text! We can control the shadow color, direction, and offset.
What will you folks use this effect for? I personally see it could be very helpful in making text stand out on multicolored photo backgrounds.
Ohh, thanks for the heads-up, can't wait to try this out! I don't do many text designs but the ones I do, I often make my own "drop shadow" to make it stand out by duplicating the text layer, This will be great, easier for us and means we don't have to worry about the customer entering the design tool and moving one layer but not the other.
Now this absolutely rocks!! Yeah!!
At first I thought 'huh?' as I couldn't see anything until I moved the offset slider far to the right, but this is awesome.
As a test, I applied a drop shadow to an existing layer of text on an existing postcard that has sold and did "replace product", to see if this is one of the edits that will be allowed.
*Note to self: did "replace product" 1pm on 9-1.
I'm sorry. 😟 I don't know why I have it. But if it makes you feel any better I've only used it a couple of times. I didn't mention it here to upset anyone, just thought that for those who do happen to have the feature this would be a question that might as well be answered. And the answer seems to be that yes, you can use it to add a drop shadow to existing text. My test postcard from this morning, it did indeed go through as checking now approx 13 hrs after submitting the edit, the published product as an anon user shows the drop-shadowed text.
To reiterate, I changed NOTHING except for adding the drop-shadow to existing text. I did not add or remove any other layers, I didn't reposition anything, I didn't add any text, I didn't change any place-holder text, I didn't change any colors ...
I think if you've made your own drop-shadow by duplicating text layers and off-setting them, and then try to use Replace to remove the extra layers and just add a Drop Shadow instead, my guess is that wouldn't go through as that's too much change. And if it's just plain text (no homemade drop layers to remove) on something that's already sold as in my test, then it probably already looks fine without a drop shadow ;). (I actually liked my postcard better without the ds but wanted to test it on an inconsequential product.)
I really love the drop shadow feature! I used to offset texts, as many of you. But there will be too many products to replace. I am still working on replacing the screwed up results after Blooming Elegant font was removed, that's already keeping me off the streets as it is 🙂 (that does go through though).
