PSE4.0 Shadows HELP

[Jennyrae]

I am trying to learn this program. I have done several tut's and I have a good book. But I can't find instructions on how to put a shadow behind elements to make them look layered.

Please someone point me in the right direction. I tried using drop shadow brush then painting them on around the element argh I can hardly control the line it is all wobbly and looked terrible.

Thanks for the help anyone?:o

[Emma]

have you tried the First Page Tutorial yet?
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/university/tutorials/pse_basicpageep.shtml

Check out this part, go to Window>Styles & Effects to see the palette, then choose Styles from the right drop down menu, and Drop Shadows from the left drop down menu, and choose Low or Soft
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/university/tutorials/images/pse_TextOutlineStyle.jpg

The Outline shadow in the tutorial is for making a border around the text, but you can just choose Low or Soft for a simple drop shadow

Layer Styles rock, you can do so much with them!

Have you checked out the DSU 160 Intro to PSE class for digi scrapping? You'd love it!

Let us know if that helps, if you can't find the palette or the drop shadows in there, etc

Welcome to DSP!

[Jennyrae]

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You-

I got shadows yeah. I was really going crazy there. Check out my first ever LO with PSE 4.0. I used all my own elements and tried to make papers. Would love some feedback/suggestions.

Also I accidently applied some beveled edges to the papers. But can't figure out how to remove them. Help?

Again Thanks - Jennyrae:D

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=75983&cat=627

[Emma]

if you like the bevel texture on somethig you create, but you don't want that look on the edge of the paper, then you Ctrl-T and enlarge the paper just past the borders of the layout so they're not showing. Saving the paper as a JPG or PNG file will make it the right size but no beveled edges. If you crop the PSD layout later, those bevels will show again since you cut off the excess outside the image (layer styles change when you change what they're on)
Or, just go to Layer>Layer Style>Clear Style to remove all styles from that layer; good if you just need to start over from scratch. In PSE you can't jsut take off one style at a time (like remove just the drop shadow or just the bevel, you have to remove all of it...unless you take DSU 361 and get the Remove Style freebie in there).

Also, go to Layer>Layer Style>Simplify Layer or something along those lines to flatten any layer style onto the layer, so they're no longer editable. Then you can just cut off the beveled edge and it won't "update". It'll act like you used a filter or painted it on rather than a dynamic style that you can edit and change. Only flatten styles if you HAVE to

I'd love to see you in 160! You'd love that class