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Inner shadow and inner glow
Inner shadow and inner glow
- Hi
There's a way to obtain the effect
inner shadow
and
inner glow ?
Answers
- You can get close to inner glow by creating a brush that has a gradient to the inside of a closed shape.
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- My best guess would be that the stroke you have defined does not span the entire Stroke Definition Box. Edit the stroke, select the stroke and make sure the bounding box is stretched to meet the left and right bounds of the definition box.
steve- Proposed As Answer byFred C_ Thursday, May 29, 2008 3:19 AM
- Marked As Answer byLori DirksMSFT, ModeratorSunday, November 23, 2008 2:04 AM
Exactly as Steve said; the Stroke Definition box
defines the beginning and end of the stroke. If
there is space to the left and/or right of the stroke
components relative to the box, it will yield a stroke
that does not reach the ends of the stroke path.
- Proposed As Answer byFred C_ Thursday, May 29, 2008 3:45 AM
- Edited byFred C_ Thursday, May 29, 2008 4:15 AMreformat
- Marked As Answer byLori DirksMSFT, ModeratorSunday, November 23, 2008 2:04 AM
All Replies
- No, we only had drop shadow and outer glow. Inner glow has been a popular request but so far it hasn't been implemented.
Annie - I hope that Microsoft will add this functionality
- You can get close to inner glow by creating a brush that has a gradient to the inside of a closed shape.
<Image Removed>See post (below)- Friday, March 07, 2008 1:54:15 PM- Same subj.- Marked As Answer byLori DirksMSFT, ModeratorSunday, November 23, 2008 2:04 AM
- Edited byFred C_ Tuesday, March 04, 2008 3:31 AMshow image
- Edited byFred C_ Sunday, March 09, 2008 7:09 PMremoved image
- Edited byFred C_ Sunday, March 09, 2008 7:12 PMimage removed
- Edited byFred C_ Thursday, May 29, 2008 3:02 AMremoved extra
- Edited byFred C_ Tuesday, March 04, 2008 6:06 AMadded comment
- Edited byFred C_ Tuesday, March 04, 2008 2:58 AMchange link
- Edited byFred C_ Tuesday, March 04, 2008 3:36 AMreset image
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- Edited byFred C_ Tuesday, March 04, 2008 3:06 AMspelling
- As well as Fred's option a while back i posted this method:
1) Draw a circle on the artboard. No fill and a stroke of 1 px
2) Duplicate it twice (Ctrl+C, Ctrl+F) so you now have 3 circles
3) Select the bottom two circles in the layers panel and compound them
4) Apply an outer glow effect to these circles
5) Select the two objects in the layers panel (a circle and a compound
object)
6) Object > Clipping Path > Make with top path
You now have an inner glow which can be adjusted as normal by selecting the
compound object in the layers panel and changing the values for the outer
glow effect.
Notes
The circle (not the compound object) will be used for fill and stroke
adjustments
steve - Hi Steve,
Good to see you here! I'm glad you posted your solution. I remembered your method, but couldn't locate it in a NG search.
Best Regards,
Fred
Hi
Excuse me for the late
The barkest method works very well
For Fred C. :
can you give me the design file to janson3@virgilio.it?- Design file posted here:
<http://cid-b6d1dabbf49f6e3c.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Expression%20Stuff/Inner%20glow%20stroke.design
Here's an updated image:
Fred - I advise all the Fred C.'s tutorial.
It's great - I don't know if I'm missing something obvious here but I can't find an option for align to backbone? I can see options for align including centers, top edges, bottom edges, left edges, right edges, vertical centers and horizontal centers but no backbone?
I quite urgently need an inner glow effect and I really don't want to have to rebuild all my paths in another program.
Thanks
- Hey Grace,
I have not tried Fred's method but reading his great description I think he means that you select all and use the cursor to move to align with the backbone. There is no option to 'move backbone' you have to do it manually
must try out his method as it looks really good
steve- Edited bybarkest Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:56 AMspelling
- Steve,
Thanks - so far so good. It's working pretty much now.
Just one final (and very weird) thing. When I apply the stroke, it only seems to apply to 3/4 of the shape? Can you think of any reason for that or what I can do to fix that?
Cheers!
- My best guess would be that the stroke you have defined does not span the entire Stroke Definition Box. Edit the stroke, select the stroke and make sure the bounding box is stretched to meet the left and right bounds of the definition box.
steve- Proposed As Answer byFred C_ Thursday, May 29, 2008 3:19 AM
- Marked As Answer byLori DirksMSFT, ModeratorSunday, November 23, 2008 2:04 AM
Exactly as Steve said; the Stroke Definition box
defines the beginning and end of the stroke. If
there is space to the left and/or right of the stroke
components relative to the box, it will yield a stroke
that does not reach the ends of the stroke path. - Proposed As Answer byFred C_ Thursday, May 29, 2008 3:45 AM
- Edited byFred C_ Thursday, May 29, 2008 4:15 AMreformat
- Marked As Answer byLori DirksMSFT, ModeratorSunday, November 23, 2008 2:04 AM
- Anonymous_34857345 said:
Hi
Excuse me for the late
The barkest method works very well
For Fred C. :
can you give me the design file to janson3@virgilio.it?
I actually have a stroke for download posted on my old Design site!
Inner Glow Stroke
Have Fun Bill
Design by Bill - Got it now! Thanks!
- Good! Bill's stroke uses a bitmap to do essentially the same thing. :-)
~Fred - Great solution Barkest!
I discovered a similar method using a Gaussian blur. It only required two objects.
1) 1) Draw a circle on the artboard. No fill and a stroke of 1 px
2) Duplicate it ONCE (Ctrl+C, Ctrl+F) so you now have 2 circles
3) Apply an Gaussian blur effect to bottom circle
5) Select the two objects in the layers panel
6) Object > Clipping Path > Make with top path
The inner glow can be manipulated by modifying the placement and and settings of the clipping path as well as the color, stroke, fill of the lower object and the radius of the blur effect.
