From the course: Introducing Illustrator
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Applying drop shadows - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Introducing Illustrator
Applying drop shadows
- [Instructor] In this chapter, we'll take a look at a few of Illustrator's automated effects, which are dynamic operations, meaning they have no permanent consequences and you can change your mind anytime you like. And a great example of such an effect is a drop shadow. And notice, this final version of the artwork contains quite a few soft drop shadows that help to distinguish the objects from each other. And so notice, without the drop shadows, the scene is pretty drab, as you can see right here. And I should mention that these reasonably accurate license plates comes to us from the Dreamstime image library, which contains a ton of editable vector artwork. And you can learn more as well as get some great deals at dreamstime.com/deke. All right, I'm going to start by selecting this woodgrain just by clicking on it. And as you may recall, this is a photographic image set inside of a clipping mask. And now I'll go over to…
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