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How to Add a Drop Shadow in Canva
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Dec 9, 2024
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in this video I'm going to show you on
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how you can add a drop shadow to an
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object in confab so a drop shadow effect
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is definitely going to be helpful to
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make the content or to make the object
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appears more striking and it will
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definitely attract the viewers attention
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and I'm going to demonstrate on how you
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can add a drop shadow for both text and
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also a picture or a video so let's start
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with a simple text by the way this is
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actually a text from my previous
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tutorial and I apply a a drop shadow
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effect to make it more attractive so if
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I apply that like this you can see that
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now there is a diecut uh border
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surrounding it now we can see the text
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we can see the whole design thanks to
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the drop shadow effect so here's how I
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can add something like that to text in
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Contra I'm going to add a new page and
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let's go to text uh let's add this text
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uh this is going to be the name of the
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channel now to add the shadow you have
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to click on the text you can also select
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multiple text boxes and then you can go
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to effects and now you can click on
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Shadow so this is the drop shadow
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setting that you can apply now there is
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an offset offset is really about the
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distance between the Shadow and the
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actual text and then there is also the
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direction this is essentially like where
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the light is coming from and therefore
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you can see the shadow is being produced
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in the opposite angle and then there is
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also Blu-ray effect which is very useful
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if you want to make the shadow more
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realistic then I do recommend ening this
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option and lastly there is a
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transparency this is just really about
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your style or how about uh how intense
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the light really is you can make it more
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transparent you can make the shadow very
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very visible it's totally up to you
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depending on the style that you are
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trying to achieve now this is for the
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shadow option there is also uh something
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kind of similar and I I use it a lot
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it's called Li this is not really a drop
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shadow but it's just adding Shadow uh on
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each individual letter of the text and
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it just
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apply uh uh universally to every single
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text and it's going to make the whole
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text more uh pop out and sometimes it's
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actually something that you want to have
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in your design let's say if I change the
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color of the text to White now we can
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see that shadow is helping the text to
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be visible so that was the drop shadow
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for text now let's move on to the drop
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shadow for picture or other objects
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let's say I will I want to use a picture
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of person
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standing now let's see the photos and I
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will try to find pictures that will be
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appropriate I guess I'm going to try to
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to use this picture oh maybe not okay
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let's try something else and I need
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someone that is standing with full
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body okay let's
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see uh well it's kind of difficult I'm
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going to go back to the top maybe we can
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use this basic picture let's try that so
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if you want to apply a drop shadow to
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this whole picture you can click on it
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and then click edit now you get to
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shadows and here you can see there are
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multiple Shadows effect that you can
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apply I'm going to select this drop
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shadow and now we can see the setting
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that's kind of similar to the text
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effect setting that we saw earlier
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except maybe the wording is a bit
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different uh this one is blue amount
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it's uh there's also the angle the
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distance and and lastly the intensity by
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the way you can also adjust the uh color
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so it's no longer Shadow it's becoming
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glow not Shadow and yeah I think in this
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case this picture is transparent but if
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you do have let's say a picture that is
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square like maybe this one you'll see
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that if you apply the shadow effect that
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shadow will be applied not on this
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subject it will be applied for the whole
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thing for the whole picture so if you
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click on it now now you can see that
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that is the shadow that you will get uh
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but if you want to add a shadow just to
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the person inside of the picture then
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you have to isolate the person from the
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rest of the background uh you can do so
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by removing the background or you can
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also uh go to the magic grab this is
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also something that I use a lot so the
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AI in cona will isolate the object and
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you can grab the object and then you can
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modify it you can add Shadow and it
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won't affect the rest of the picture so
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it's extremely useful if you want to add
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some realism to the picture now that
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these two uh pictures are separated you
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can apply the shadow effect and G and I
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think it looks really cool so yeah uh I
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think that's basically it that's how you
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can add a drop shadow in canva