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Adding text shadows

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Adding text shadows

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So we have one final task before we finish our book cover and that's adding those subtle shadows to each letter. We are going to do this by using the text shadow property. So I am going to be working with the stacked.htm file from the 02_06 directory and if I look at that in the browser. You can see we're back to having white text. Yay! We've got our kerning is happening, our stacking is happening, you'll have to trust me on the stacking because the letters are all bleeding together, but as we start adding these really subtle text shadows they're really going to pop off and we're going to get a lot of dimensionality. Based upon the stacking of the letters. All right now tech shadow syntax is actually fairly simple to use but it is one of those things that that you have to be very careful how you use it and you have to be very conscientious in terms of the direction you're using, the amount of shading you're doing. that sort of thing. I'm going to scroll down a little bit until I get…

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