Seperate Drop Shadows

[Jeffrey_Markham@adobeforums.com]

Is it possible to seperate drop shadows from their vector parent objects?

[Timothy_Foolery®@adobeforums.com]

You can delete a drop shadow in the appearance pallet. You could just copy and paste your object and remove the drop shadow from one of the instances. I don't really understand what you're trying to do. Can you give us some more details?

[Jeffrey_Markham@adobeforums.com]

I would simply like the drop shadow to exist as an object seperate from the vector object that it was created from. For example, let's say you create a rectangle using the rectangle tool. Then under the Effects menu, you add a drop shadow. What I'd like to be able to do is detach the drop shadow from the rectangle.

[B. Philippus]

Jeffrey:

Ctrl-C;
Ctrl-F;
Discard everything from the appearance palette except the DS, and vice versa on the original.

Bert

[Timothy_Foolery®@adobeforums.com]

What Bert said.

[John_Kallios@adobeforums.com]

If using effect drop shadow:

If the element does not have a stroke applied:

expand the appearance (Object>Expand Appearance)
ungroup as desired

If a stroke is applied
expand the appearance (Object>Expand Appearance)
Direct select fill image and delete
Select stroke and reapply fill.
ungroup as desired

(there are variants to this)

If using filter drop shadow:
ungroup

[Timothy_Foolery®@adobeforums.com]

lol. Sure if you want to do it the right way...

(cool John, thanks)