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Mathias17
Mathias17
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Setting a Drop Shadow to Overprint

Aug 14, 2012 1:20 PM

Rather than drop shadows knock fuzzy holes in underlying separations, is there a way to set a Drop Shadoo to always overprint?

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  • Mike Gondek
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    1. Mike Gondek,
    Aug 14, 2012 1:37 PM   in reply to Mathias17
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    Illustrator Drop Shadows are set to multiply by default.

    Screen shot 2012-08-14 at 3.33.46 PM.png

     

    If you are talking about drop shadows from Photoshop placed images, you need to make 2 photoshop files to achieve this.

     

    1. Photoshop file without drop shadow on top
    2. Photoshop file with drop shadow set to multiply in Illustrator underneath the other image

     

     

    To get the images to register, you just need to copy 1 oplace image and paste in front, then use the links panel to relink to the other image.

     
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  • Mathias17
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    2. Mathias17,
    Aug 14, 2012 1:46 PM   in reply to Mike Gondek
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    What now? No, just typical Illustrator drop shadows, live effects. But you comment about Multiply Mode . . .

     

     

    I checked into that. I had turned it off so I could eliminate hard-to-predict print problems resulting from using fancy effects.

     

    Turns out, Multiply Mode makes the shad overprint. The proof:

     

     

    Overprint off:

     

    1.PNG

    Overprint on. Drop Shadow blend mode: Normal.

    2.PNG

     

     

    Overprint on. Drop Shadow blend mode: Multiply.

    3.PNG

     

    Nice! Thanks, Mike.

     
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