Option for Text to have a Drop-Shadow Please...

[NigelSutherland]

I'd like to suggest there being the option for white text to have a grey drop-shadow effect added. This would be useful for text that is placed over a photograph, as a caption on a calendar page for example. It would ensure legibility in situations where the underlying image includes light areas.

[CreativeLeahG]

Use the copy-paste function to add two layers of text (each can be different colors) and move the one slightly and reduce the size slightly to get this effect. When the customer edits the text, both will change.

[Barbara]

Given that text isn't a raster image, I'm not sure Zazzle can give you a shadow function. so @CreativeLeahG  has given you what is probably as close as you can get.

An alternative method is to create translucent rectangles in your image editor that can be cropped to size and placed beneath the text area. The caveat with this method is, of course, the length of text the customer uses to replace your text. I've done this but have made sure to give the text boundaries beyond which it can't go.

I've done the above, but can I find which product and when? Nope. However, I found this, which can show the effect. It's one image of a violin that's semi-transparent and overlapped. Maybe it can show the thinking behind it:. (I have to edit details on this because it was created when customers could easily change background color.)

Violin Music Fills the Soul in Your Color Choice
by colorwash

[NigelSutherland]

Yes, I had thought of that, and I used to do that very thing back in my graphic designer days before Quark Xpress made it a feature. With that software it also blurred the drop-shadow slightly which makes a good effect.

[NigelSutherland]

I seem to remember that Quark Xpress evolved to be able to allow it with editable text. I therefore considered it might be possible here. (It's a long time since I had that software so can't check now.)

[Barbara]

Yes, and I'm pushing my memory of how it worked with the video software I used. I want to say the text was first rasterized, but I'm only almost sure. Sad how our brains have a miscellaneous file where it tosses stuff and we can't find things.

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