Long Shadow provides many powerful features for fine-tuning the shadow.ДЇalloff Shadow Over Distance: Fades the shadow across itвЂ™s length. This section contains all the controls related to the shadowвЂ™s properties. Opacity: Specifies the opacity of the shadow. Length: Specifies the length of the shadow. These can be fine-tuned using the controllers or interactively updated by left-clicking and dragging the mouse in the preview window. This section contains all the controls related to the shadow direction, length and opacity. Long Shadow is fully multithreaded and will take advantage of as many workstation cores made available to it. Long Shadow is capable of working in 8 bits / channel and 16 bits / channel color modes. Performance can be increased by reducing the size of the preview window.

The larger the element and the longer the shadow, the more copying needs to be performed and the slower the rendering. Long Shadow works by copying the shadow-casting element multiple times in a specified direction until the desired length is achieved.

The shadow direction and length can be specified using the controllers or by left-clicking and dragging the mouse in the preview window. By running the filter on different layers, one has the ability to blend them together at different transparency levels if desired, not to mention more control over image processing. Long Shadow works best when used in multiple passes. This means running Long Shadow on a vector text element will prompt you to rasterize the layer first. Working in this manner is non-destructive and ensures youвЂ™ll always maintain your original shadow-casting layer intact. This will generate and convert your shadow-casting layer into a shadow layer, which can then be placed under your other shadow-casting layer. The optimal method to work with Long Shadow is to duplicate your object-casting layer, then run the filter on it and select Shadow Only under show. This means your element must be on a transparent layer as this is where the shadow will be generated. Long Shadow works on layers with transparency.

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