question about dropshadows & saving in PS CS

heyitslauriebeth

heyitslauriebeth

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I just noticed, when I was looking at my gallery, that when I save my pages in Photoshop CS as .jpg's, my dropshadows disappear. I just opened it up, and I have psd versions saved of my pages, and when I flatten them, the dropshadows also disappear. So I tried merging down on them all, and the shadows get REALLY dark...Does anyone know why its doing this/how to fix it?
 
I don't know why they are disappearing, but when you merge layers that all have dropshadows, you are essentially doubling, tripling ect...the look of the shadow. Hence being so dark.

Interested in what other people say...hope you get it figured out. :)
 
sammi said:
I don't know why they are disappearing, but when you merge layers that all have dropshadows, you are essentially doubling, tripling ect...the look of the shadow. Hence being so dark.

Interested in what other people say...hope you get it figured out. :)
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Yeah, I figured that part out...I don't know why they just disappear when I flatten the image or save it as .jpg...its weird, and I can't believe none of my layouts on here have the dropshadows like they're supposed to lol!
 
hmmm....trying to think of why that might be - must be some setting...I'll look around after I open PS and try to find something for you.
 
I use PSE but I think it's the same in PSCS. After my final save of my PSD file I right click any layer that I used a dropshadow on and I right click and choose simplify (I think it might be called rastize in PS). Then when I flatten it does not cause my drop shadows to get super thick or make them disappear!!!
 
I actually asked this same question a couple of years ago. LOL! I had to go dig for the response but here it is. Also, I always "merge visible" before I save for web or resize or anything.

Here's the response that helped me:

Whenever you are zoomed to anything other than a 100% you are seeing a poor estimate of the layer styles. It's not that flattening is actually changing your shadow -- it's that Photoshop was doing a bad job of previewing it before you flattened. It guesses badly.

(If you don't believe me -- zoom to 100% and then flatten it -- and watch it NOT change.) To work around this, set the styles at 100%. They will look extreme when you zoom out -- until you flatten. OR: you can flatten it to see the result, then back up and make adjustments.
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Libby Weifenbach said:
I actually asked this same question a couple of years ago. LOL! I had to go dig for the response but here it is. Also, I always "merge visible" before I save for web or resize or anything.

Here's the response that helped me:
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OHH. I see now. Thanks :thumbup: Hah, I never realized that wasn't ACTUALLY what the shadows looked like!
 
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