Raster Image - Drop Shadow

The Drop Shadow operation is an operation plug-in, which works with raster images and adds a shadow of given color, size, position and density to an image.

Outer shadow was added to the red circle.

Shadow is the silhouette of an image (cropped by an optional image mask) that has been blurred, its transparency was adjusted and the result was optionally moved by given distance from the original position. Floating point numbers may be used to specify the blur radius and the offsets.

The Shadow position parameter (added in version 2011.1) has major influence on the behavior of the effect:

• If it is set to Shadow only, the original image is deleted and only the shadow remains.
• The Outer shadow is the most common behavior - the shadow is placed under the actual image.
• The Inner shadow inverts the effect. The shadow is placed over the image, but the shadow source is the exterior.

The shadow operation can be instructed to change the size of the image to ensure that there is enough space for the shadow. This is important for completely opaque images, because the underlying shadow would not be visible otherwise.

It is possible to select the shadow color. If other than black color is used, the shadow effect becomes less a shadow and resembles a glow effect.

Internals

GUID: 179FED75-A48F-4708-AF14-56BFB2A2ADBC

Shortcut: CTRL + D

Anonymous on January 26th 2011 0

i don't know if its a bug but when you put this shadow effect on a cursor when you drag files it shows a big circle-like shadow, can you help me please?

jose_ygg on January 26th 2011 0

that happens when you set the created/edited cursors as your cursor scheme

Anonymous on February 5th 2015 0

how do you make the size of the shadow bigger

Vlasta on February 6th 2015 0

Increase the number in the "Shadow size" box.

Anonymous on June 6th 2017 0

Windows 10. Real World does not appear to handle drop shadows any loger. No longer, is there a "resize image" checkbox. The shadow is not visible. Additioanlly, no longer, is there a way to see 'before' and 'affected' image in the same preview window. Why change all of this? It worked so well before but is now broken. Help!

Vlasta on June 8th 2017 0

Windows version should not affect the behavior at all. Are you by chance trying to add shadow to a vector layer?

RIDDLER on April 15th 2021 0

Drop shadows can be added to cursors in RW Cursor Editor.

Anonymous on November 17th 2021 0

How do we set the Resize to 'True' so there's room for the drop shadow??

Anonymous on April 1st 2022 0

Great work on the app, have been using it for years and I absolutely love it.