NancyA

When I get less busy LOL! I actually have a sun flare I need help with but hadn't decided whether to do it as I did the edit or to post on ask damien. Maybe I'll get to it next week. Hope you had a great Holiday season!

I do know and yes I see. But I was trying to go really soft since you said the first was "weird ass-fashion" to go soft. I'm thinking my angle might be totally wrong. Knowing what one is and creating one is my huge problem evidently.

Any better or still too much? I reduced opacity and size. It's on the one on right but not the other 2. Maybe this isn't the right thread for this now?

This is new territory for me. Do you have a tutorial on drop shadows or maybe it is in that material. Late here and giving up for tonight.

Bingo! But you stated in your tut that you used both and yours are square. Am I assuming that was a "general" statement either/or??

Sigh. Wish I had found this earlier. I have 90 pages done so not redoing them but will on the remaining pages. Back to why my corners aren't square like yours. Can you screen shot me your "border & drop shadow settings"? I presume the same settings should work whether I have each image on its own layer or 3 images on 1. This is my stroke settings. And yes, I was going to go back and find the first it referred to. Thanks for link. Maybe I'll get my answer in that tutorial?

No I had not seen it. Thanks!

Double oops. I had changed them back to the same. Here is the one. top left inside other 2 outside

Oops!

I thought I sent a screen shot but not sure where it went. Top is inside at 30, the bottom is outside at 30

Still curved. Left inside, right outside

Is there a way to make the corners square or should I be happy with curved?

I'll play with it but are you saying if I use a color other than black (which I may do on some) I will need to use a different blend mode?

Normal works. I was using an example and it had multiple. I played with darken but not normal but all 3 seem the same. Thanks again!

I thought I tried stroke first but I failed to find the "outside". I believe it makes a sharper edge than the drop shadows so will use stroke. I can't tell a difference in multiply & darken in this case. What blend mode do you suggest? Thanks! I prefer the stroke!