Recently I made a ribbon banner with transparent folded edges.

In the uploaded image, you can see the highlighted bits I wish masked/erased out.

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The dropshadow is a standard layer effect.

I wish to remove the dropshadow effect via either masking/deleting a certain portion of it.

At the moment I can acquire this effect, as shown in the above linked image.

I was wondering if the next version of PS could contain a feature that could instead, apply a layer mask to the actual layer style, allowing when needed to mask certain bits out of the style perhaps?

Otherwise, layer masking only masks the layer style alongside with the actual layer.

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Thank you chrisjohnsskills, however unfortunately, this is not what I was after.

In a nutshell, I am looking for a way to edit the layer style of any object, be it a vector or raster image. In particular, using as an example the image I posted above, I am looking for a way to only delete a portion of the layer mask.

Maybe another way to ask this question would be;

Can anyone create a layer style for an object, and remove only a certain portion of the layer style?

Too complicated a question? If so, I will put up a video trying to explain what I am trying to achieve.

Thank you one and all.

Being able to masks effects would be nice, but AFAIK not possible in current version.

Some effects (like drop shadow) work well as a separate layer. (Just right click on the Drop Shadow in the Layers Panel and go down to Create Layer). Now you can mask, blur, transform, whatever you want to do to the shadow.

Combining layer ans vector masks is a very powerful feature. You can read detailed step by step tutorial with plenty of screenshots here http://adobephotoshopsecrets.blogspot.com/2012/08/combining-vector-and -layer-masks-in.html

Below layer with effects applied you have Effects title and below it listed effects names. Right click on Effects and from drop down list choose Create Layers. This will create separate layers with each effect on it - you will get raster layers without ability to change settings for effect but you can change only a certain portion of applied effect. I am still using CS5 and its possible that this feature is disabled in CS6.

You can also turn on Layer (or Vector) Mask Hide Effects in Blending Options. Turning on this feature you can hide applied effects only on masked areas.