How to Work With Drop Shadows in Illustrator
Learn how easy it is to create drop shadows in Illustrator, save them as styles, and even update the look across all elements in your document.
In this Illustrator how-to video, Khara Plicanic shows how easy it is to create and manipulate drop shadows. After setting her perfect drop shadow, she then saves it as a graphic style to easily apply the look to other objects. Lastly, Khara shows how to make a change to an object and get the graphic style to update all other objects with that style.
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This article was last modified on August 29, 2025
This article was first published on August 14, 2024
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