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CS3 Drop shadows from P'shop to Indesign

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    • November 20, 2009 at 10:27 am #53851
      dointhings
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      Hi

      I often create multi layered items in photoshop with dropshadows set to varying shades and angles. When I place these images in Indesign I would like to replicate the dropshadow settings for items that I create in Indesign. Because photoshop works in pixels I can never get an exact match for my Indesign drop shadows.

      Is there a script or work-around that will replicate the photoshop drop shadow settings?

      thanks for your support.

      Sue

    • November 20, 2009 at 4:44 pm #53861
      Anne-Marie Concepcion
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      Interesting question! I don't know of any offhand, but maybe someone will chime in.

      Have you tried isolating the shadows and placing just a few representative ones on the ID pasteboard? Then you could experiment with replicating the shadows w/ID's tools, and save the ones that come close and that you use a lot in an ID library.

      You can isolate a shadow effect from its layer in Photoshop … can't remember the exact command though. You're actually creating a real layer from an effect. Right-click on the shadow effect, the command should be there.

      AM

    • November 20, 2009 at 8:57 pm #53867
      Bob Levine
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      There's no way I know of to get an exact duplicate, but I feel compelled to warn you that InDesign will not honor the blend modes from a PSD file(that is if the drop shadow is set to multiply, it won't be honored as a blend mode against an InDesign background) so be careful.

      As AM pointed out, you can separate the effects from the layer by using the Layer>Layer Style>Create Layer command in Photoshop.

    • November 20, 2009 at 9:51 pm #53869
      dointhings
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      hi

      thank you both for the quick reply. I do separate the drop shadow layers (with a master layer with dropshadow kept intact, but hidden), so that if I edit the image a few days later, I can replicate the shadow in photoshop if needed. I was hoping that there was a math process (calculator at hand) that would convert pixel measurements to pts, so that I could replicate the shadow dimensions in Indesign.

      thanks again for your time

      off to ask the next question : )

      Sue

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