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Long shadows in Silhouette Studio mini-tutorial

July 11, 2016 by Kay

A question came up in one the Silhouette Facebook groups about how to create a long shadow so I put together this mini-tutorial graphic. As you can see, it isn’t automatic, but not too difficult, especially when using an offset like this. I am posting it here in case it might be useful to some of you.

How to create an offset long shadow effect in Silhouette Studio

 

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Comments

  1. kat schriber says

    July 11, 2016 at 6:37 pm

    you can also make a ‘long’ shadow by using the shear tool. i sheared my word just a bit, then did an external offset to .125 and sheared ‘just the offset’ to where i wanted the shadow.

    • Kay says

      July 11, 2016 at 9:01 pm

      Thanks for the reminder, Kat. For those that have DE, the shear tool is a great technique for creating cast shadows, which are a little different from this.

  2. carol says

    July 11, 2016 at 8:32 pm

    short, sharp and sweet, thanks for the tutorial

  3. Judy says

    July 11, 2016 at 10:55 pm

    Love the tutorial. Brilliant! Thanks so much.

  4. Chelsea Johnson says

    July 12, 2016 at 11:11 am

    Wow! Excellent tutorial! I will save this info for a time when I want to create this look. Thanks so much for sharing it with us!!

  5. Sarah J says

    September 1, 2016 at 1:36 am

    Whoa! My mind is blown!! Thank you.?

  6. linda says

    November 4, 2016 at 6:42 pm

    I have a question. I saved an article the other day and now cannot find it. I have several files in silhouette I made and used but now when I try to open it pops up a block that says this file is not compatable. What can I do.

    • Kay says

      November 4, 2016 at 10:01 pm

      This is a bug. Contact support for instructions on how to fix it.

  7. Tara says

    August 18, 2017 at 12:59 pm

    I had no clue!! I have to say thank you, I have learned so much from watching your tutorials and happy to have found your blog!!!

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