Stitches side-by-side, showing shadows

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Sat Feb 12, 2011
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Here's a side-by-side comp, of with and without shadows.

The left is not shadowed. On the right, it is, with the following settings:
Linear Burn, color code 2c1901
60% opacity
90 degree angle, with global light UNchecked
Distance - 0
Spread - 0
Size - 10 px

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Kelli Profile Gallery Registered: Jul 2010 Posts: 212	Sat Feb 12, 2011 10:03pm Thanks so much for taking this time to post this, Gen. It helps so much! Do you use different angle for the other elements on your pages? Is there a way to "pre-set" and keeping those settings or do multiple elements at the same time (I feel like it takes me forever when I am adding shadows to everything)? I am really working on learning the shadows right now. They can make such a difference in the final outcome! Thanks again.
Profile Gallery	Sun Feb 13, 2011 8:31am Kelli, great questions. Short answers: Yes, I use different angles for a few different things Yes, you can preset your shadows, at least in PS. Yes, you can copy the shadow settings from one element to another There's a lot more info, obviously, and I am hardly a shadow expert, but I'll try and get a blog post together in the next few days.
jen-papadimitriou Profile Gallery Design House DecoratorRegistered: May 2010 Posts: 2,714	Sun Feb 13, 2011 12:24pm THanks for this Gen. I've always had a hard time with stitches and shadows - I'll have to give it a shot!
Kelli Profile Gallery Registered: Jul 2010 Posts: 212	Sun Feb 13, 2011 12:45pm Thanks so much for your answers, Gen! I played around in Photoshop this morning and figured out how to copy and paste layer styles--it saves so much time over resetting everything! I'd love to see a blog post on this. I am sure that there are a lot of folks who have shadows down pat, but there are also probably a lot of people like me who still have a lot to learn.
jennifer-barksdale Profile Gallery Design House DecoratorRegistered: May 2010 Posts: 2,894	Sun Feb 13, 2011 5:38pm great! tfs
Jennifer*Valencia Profile Gallery Registered: Dec 2009 Posts: 3,403	Sun Feb 13, 2011 6:09pm very cool, Gen. Thanks for sharing your settings! I'm never sure how to shadow a stitch. (That sounds weird, doesn't it?)
shannon-dombkowski Profile Gallery Registered: Oct 2010 Posts: 1,167	Mon Feb 14, 2011 2:42pm Thank you! Stitches are the hardest thing for me to shadow - but it makes such a huge difference in the final outcome.