We have a project that is for lack of a better definition a drop shadow. The desired effect is to have the top portion the darker part of the figure eight cut out completely but keep the drop shadow below intact. The areas where the darker figure eight covers the lighter drop shadow figure eight when cut out will take the underlying drop shadow along with it. Is there a way I can smoothly reshape the cut line of the darker figure 8 to preserve the drop shadow figure 8 below. These are
table markers for a wedding so any closed figure number, 0, 6, 8 …etc will have to be treated this way and there are quite a few. Any thoughts or help would be appreciated !
Not sure what you want.
Seems you want the dark by itself to overlay on the lighter?
If so I would trace image which I assume you have and then put them on layers.
Thanks for the response. It’s going to be a drop shadow effect with an inlay of a gold acrylic material. I finally figured out how to get what I needed and minimize burn time. In the image below,
I created the number 8 and duplicated it three times on three different layers set to fill. Then overlayed two of the images to the desired drop shadow look (line 2 below). Then select each layer and do a boolean subtract selecting the dropshadow layer first then the top layer, this gives me just the shadow effect to burn (line 3 below). Then take the third number 8 and overlay it over the subtracted image. (line 4 below) I left it set to fill for clarity, but I’ll set it to line and cut it so it drops. Then cut the gold acrylic and inlay it into the work piece where the shadow effect is burned into the work piece. Pretty simple once you figure it out but it took a while to discover the process so I documented it in case someone else is struggling with it.
