• Adobe After Effects

  ¿How to Drop shadow in a comp with adjunstement layer??

  Posted by Gerardo Rojas on August 27, 2020 at 4:53 am

  Hello,

  I’m trying to get glass bars effect, need some shadows on these bars which made the glass effect, but when applying drop shadows to the comp of glass effect, it turns in absolute black, I’m attaching some images, can anybody help to figure out what im doing wrong please?

  Thanks for ur time

  
  
  

  John Cuevas replied 6 years ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Filip Vandueren

  August 27, 2020 at 9:29 am

  The problem is that your compositions have collapse transformations enabled, so any adjustment layer inside of your comp will also apply to all layers below it in the master comp.
  I think it’s best to create a separate shadow-layer that is inv-masked or matted so it doesn’t overlap with your glass shape.
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  John Cuevas

  August 27, 2020 at 12:51 pm

  To follow up on what flip said–duplicate your comp layer, turn off collapse transformations, add the shadow effect and check ‘shadow’ only.

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