How did I do this shadow?

[Egg Bramhill]

[Chris M]

Egg, do you know how many times I've manually created a shadow to achieve what you did in 30 seconds?

I can now make stupid additions to my kids photos and embarrass myself much faster.

[Egg Bramhill]

Don't talk to me regards embarrassment Chris, got the T shirt

[hseiken]

Another way to do shadows is to copy the item, make it the color of the shadow and manually do what the shadow tool attempts to do. I like the shadow tool for drop shadows as an easy solution, but for 3D shadows, I tend to make my own. If it's a complex object with a lot of parts, I'll simply group->duplicate it, add all the shapes together, then go to town.

Cheers.