Cropping and THEN effects?

[Alex Gollner]

If you use an effect that is designed to trim, you can apply it first before adding effects – such as a drop shadow to the outside of the cropped image.

This gives more direct control than the compound clip method.

You could use my free trim effect (which allows for different feather values for each edge)

If you use my free drop shadow effect, the shadow will appear outside the trim.

Alex
(PS my crop effect comes with bonus effects that trim single edges, which has animation curve controls)

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Alexandre Gollner,
Editor, Zone 2-North West, London

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