- [Instructor] Here's how to create a shadow only effect
for type even when the type is
across a varying color background.
Select the type on the appearance panel,
stylize drop shadow
experiment with these settings.
Now I want to mask the shape of the letters
so I will copy my letters,
command or control C.
And then from the edit menu
I will choose paste in front.
On this copy that is in front.
I do not want the drop shadow,
so I'll remove that.
Now I will select both pieces of type.
Come to the transparency panel
and choose, make mask.
As soon as I've done that I'll need to unclip.
And we now see that the opacity mask is concealing the type
but we are still getting to see the drop shadow applied
to the type on the layer itself.
One other thing I want to do that is
with the type that is on the opacity mask.
I'm going to come to the appearance panel
and I'm going to add a small stroke just
so that we don't see the edges of the letters.
See, that's how it looks without the stroke.
And then with the stroke,
and we can vary the weight of that as needed.