Shadow colors
 

What is your favorite go-to shadow color?

I use to use a medium grey for the past couple years... but I have recently discovered that, for my liking, this isn't the best color to use. I have been experimenting with colors and I am wondering what your favorite color to use is?

I generally use some degree of brown.

It depends. I use dark grey or black on burn mode on dark colors. On light colors I will generally use brown. I change the opacity to my liking though.

I usually use a brownish color - unless I'm on blue. I like using black if I'm on blue (but not always - sometimes I'm just too lazy to change the shadow color, lol)

This is my color. I rarely change it. It's a shade of brown - quite dark.

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I almost always use dark brown.

always a dark brown

I use a dark brown too. sometimes, I change it if it doesn't look right.

Dark brown... it seems to look the most natural.

I tend to go with a darkish brown unless I'm seeing weird, then I'll use a shade of the background paper it's on.

Going to have to try dark brown. Thanks for the number Lydia. :)

jacinda did a blog post or tutorial on this and how she did it was interesting.

I generally use either a dark gray or black. I've tried other colors but didn't really like the way they looked so I've stuck with the gray or black.

Me too

Never really thought about this! I shall have to try and see what the difference is now!

It makes a difference what blending mode you use too. I generally use linear burn on a low opacity.

I started using linear burn as well and then lowering the opacity. I like it better than multiply, which is what I was using. I just can't seem to get my color right though. I have been trying browns, but perhaps Im trying the wrong shades. I notice with some of my purchased shadows, the colors used are a very light orangy brown, some are an orangy gray.

I'll try the darker browns and see how that goes. I appreciate that you ladies help around here! Thank you!

Here's the tutorial I did with the colour settings too. The tut is for lighter shadows, but the theory works the same for darker shadows - just increase the opacity.

https://www.sweetshoppedesigns.com/t...ghten-up-baby/

At the bottom of the tutorial there's a link to Krystals shadow styles. I always use hers as a base, then tweak to suit.

Terrific, thank you Jacinda!

Is it normal for shadowing to take sooooooo long, Im a slow scrapper anyways, but goodness sakes I seem to spend as much time on my shadowing as I do creating the layout itself. Eek!

Shadowing used to take me forever! I have a pretty good system set up now with my own shadow styles and some actions as well. My shadowing process has gotten a lot faster since I did that, and I love watching my layout come to life as I add my shadows. :)

I haven't ever used an action for shadowing.... hmmm, maybe I need to try that.

Thats the part I enjoy so much Lydia, watching it come to life as I add the shadows! It's so fun to watch.

Well i'm interested now - I never thought to change the color - I just have a dark gray and set to linear burn. Going to try brown and see what difference it'll make for me.

same here.

I use an orangey brown and linear burn. I think it makes a big difference. I'm pretty new to scrapping and I've already set up some styles for my own shadows. It saves me a lot of time and then I can just tweak. I'm still trying to figure out how to get that superealistic layered look, though. No matter how much I play with my shadows, it seems like I'm never quite there.

Fantastic tutorial and link! Thanks, Jacinda!!! :thumbup:

I hear ya, I can't seem to really get quite there either. They are muuuuuch improved compared to my first layouts a few years ago... but I droooool over some of the gorgeous realistic looking layouts here!