Text Shadows In Word Processors

• 3-D and back-shadow application on text in a composite picture.Jason Reed/Photodisc/Getty Images
  
  Most text software programs have the shadow application built into the menu. Microsoft Word requires you to open up Word Art and type in your letters, words or sentence. Click on the Shadow box on your menu and you get shadow icons in different angle or light view application. Choose whichever direction you want the shadow to be applied on the text. Close the box. Click on the 3-D box on the menu and select how you want the shadow to extrude out into a more 3-D effect with shading. This type of shadow style is used often in advertising layouts and other promotional design pieces. This program works on both the MAC and Windows platforms in all versions.
  
  

Object Shadows In Photography

• Changing shadows by layer and Dodge or Burn tool application.Photos.com/Photos.com/Getty Images
  
  Photographic software programs allow you to change shadow on an existing photograph and manipulating direction aspects and effects. You can blow up a picture in Adobe Photoshop (both MAC and Windows platform) and work on shading effects, pixel by pixel, to create your own personal effect. Use the Dodge or Burn tool from the menu and select Shadow for what you want to change in the image. Select the exposure for the tool and then drag the tool over the area you want to change. You can also access the Inner and Drop shadow effects from the Layer/Style menu box which changes the shadow depth on the whole object by the angle light, choke and distance bars.
  
  

3-D Program Software

• 3-D picture of metal hand with spotlight and underside shadow.John Foxx/Stockbyte/Getty Images
  
  Working with 3-D software programs similar to Google Sketchup, Bryce and Daz Studio, allow you to create scenery and objects. In Bryce, for instance, once you have created an object or design layout in the wire frame mode, open up the lighting source menu. Add shadows by indicating where the light focus is coming from. You can change the direction of the shadow created by the object, based on the light source, by moving the light icon around on the page. You also change the depth of shading by changing the slider button in the density menu to give it more depth or opacity. Render your picture to see how it looks in final rendition and adjust back in wire frame mode, if necessary.
  
  

Using Shadow Styles With Website Coding

• HTML code on a web page design.Comstock/Comstock/Getty Images
  
  You can add shadow style within CSS and HTML5 when designing a website by using the right coding. Rather than just using a flat page design, add in shadow on text and headlines to make important eye-catching statements stand out from other sections on a page. Here is the sample shadow code in HTML on a photograph coded by Michael Burt.
  
  <p style="display: block" rel="red">This is some paragraph.<br />Set display="block" inside it.<br />This is some paragraph.</p>
  
  <img src="http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7907/streetkz4.gif" rel="blue" /><br />
  
  <p><a href="/links/?u=http://www.dynamicdrive.com" rel="green">Some link</a></p>