Shadows in PS

[fatnslow]

Hey, I need some help getting some shadows in PS7. What i have is just a white box, and I wonderd how do I get shadows on all 4 sides of the box?

I have tried with drop shadow, but can only get the shadow at one angle.

Thanks for any help,
fatnslow

[mlk]

play with the shadow options (ie put no distance between the shadow and the shape and/or increase theshadow size) should do the trick

[fatnslow]

Yay, thanks.

One thing, if I was going to use this for a website. How would I put it in? Like now I have a blue background with a white box, with linear burn as shadow. How would i make that my layout in a PHP/CSS/HTML website?

Thanks for any help,
fatnslow

[.soulty]

so :

html: blue background
image: white box with drop shadow ?

if the above is the case, then you have the same blue background colour in the white box's background, so it will blend when you place it on the page.

if you use css when desiging the layout, then you can set this image as a background image. other wise if your using html table structure you can use image ready to slice it up or fireworks to slice it up or you can manually slice it up.

[VersusMG]

okay try this. Create the white box on a new layer. right click the layer in the layer box and click "Blending Options" then click "Drop Shadow". Set the "distance" to zero (0) and the "size" to (15). You can play around with the Spread and Size to get what you want. Also you can do either two things with the background. Make the same blue background as your background color or remove the background layer so you have a transparent background and save it as a .png by click "File" "Save For Web" and in the preset chose "PNG-24" then save the file where ever you want. This also works for when you want to import a transparent object into flash just make sure the layer you want to save is the only layer visible and that you have cropped it to the right size before saving.

Try it and let me know if it helped.

[.soulty]

who said anything about flash?

[VersusMG]

i was just letting you know... it works in HTML as well

[.soulty]

thats cool, just to let you know, png's arent recommended for html design at the moment, some browsers still dont support the file format.

[λ]

thats cool, just to let you know, png's arent recommended for html design at the moment, some browsers still dont support the file format.
namely Internet Explorer :sigh:

That's only really true when you're using very advanced PNGs (namely ones with 24bit transparency), all major browsers support 8-bit PNGs, 8-bit PNGs with transparency, and vanilla 24bit PNGs.