#Drop shadow after effects error windows#

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If not, I would request if you could share a few more details like: I am hopeful that the issue is resolved by now. Here we discuss step by step detail in Drop Shadow in After Effects.Sorry to hear about this trouble. This is a guide to Drop Shadow in After Effects. With Drop shadow in your project, you can give a real shadow effect to your object. After having command on drop shadow, you will become more and more able to give your project an effective and interesting view for the viewer. In this way, you can easily animate your model for any purpose with a drop shadow. In this way, you can add a drop shadow to your text and make an effective animation with a drop shadow. You can also give a drop shadow to any logo or object as well. You can animate more property of the drop shadow according to you. Step 26: You can see the animation by playing it press the spacebar key on the keyboard to play the animation. Step 25: Now, I will take the shadow back to its original position. Step 24: Now I will set the keyframe play head at 2 sec, you can set according to you. Step 23: Now, I will increase the distance of the shadow from the text by changing the data of direction. Here I will choose Distance property click on the lock icon of this property to generate the key. Step 22: I will show you an animation of the drop shadow by animating one of the properties of the drop shadow. Step 21: Here, you can see all parameters of the drop shadow. Step 13: Here, you can change the distance of the shadow from the original text by changing the data of the distance parameter of the drop shadow. Step 12: Here, you can see a drop-down shadow is activated with your text, and the parameter of this drop shadow is opened at the left section of the work area. Click on Effect & Presets option, type drop shadow in the search box and click on the drop shadow. Step 11: Or you can also give drop shadow from Effect & Preset option, which is present in the right section. Select the text layer and go to the Effect option, which is at the top of the work area of adobe after effect, a drop-down list will open, go to Perspective, again, a drop-down list will open. Step 9: Click on align tab at the right side of the work area and align the text at the center of the composition by using align options or press Ctrl + Alt + Home and then Ctrl + Home from the keyboard to center the text. Step 8: Click on the work area and type any text. Step 7: Click on the Text tab tool, which is in the toolbar section. Here I will show you the shadow effect by using text, and after that, you can easily give drop shadow to any object by following the same steps. We can see the drop shadow effect on Logo, Text or any object. I will choose a light gray color here so that we can see a drop shadow effect clearly. Step 6: Click on the background color tab and choose the color according to you.

Step 5: Or press Ctrl + K on the keyboard. Go to Composition Settings at the composition option of adobe after effect. For changing the color of the background, select the composition layer.

Step 4: You can change the color of the background at any time. You can choose as you like click on the OK tab button of this dialog box. I will choose a gray color from here because it suits my logo design. We will change the color of this layer click on the background color tab of this dialog box. We will not change the width and height of the background layer from here, you can change it according to you. Step 3: A dialog box of composition settings will be open.