- Here are a couple of quick and easy shadow effects.
In both cases, I'm going to start by selecting the type
and applying numb as the fill,
and then through the appearance panel,
reapplying a fill color.
The reason I'm doing this is so that we don't see any trace
of the original fill color showing through.
I'll change the color in this case to red
and then from the FX dropdown stylize
drop shadow.
I can experiment with the blending mode
with the amount of offset with the opacity
which I think in this case, I'll just take down to 50%.
This of course is a live effect
so any changes that I make
to the type will automatically update the shadow.
Once again, we'll apply none
and then we'll come and add a fill color
which in this case is the same as the background.
It is a solid color.
This is not going to knock out the background
so long as your background color is flat.
This technique will work.
Okay, So now I'll come
and choose my drop shadow,
same settings as before.
If I want a softer effect,
I can apply a stroke
and I'll move the stroke down beneath the fill
and then I'll move the drop shadow to the stroke.
And that's going to give me a much softer look
to the shadow.