# Photoshop Effects Problem

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-effects-problem/261460>\
**Category:** design\
**Created:** [May 27, 2008, 9:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-effects-problem/261460 "2008-05-27T21:12:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![thesupermarket](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/thesupermarket/32/3688_2.png) [@thesupermarket](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/thesupermarket)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 9:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-effects-problem/261460/1 "2008-05-27T21:12:00Z")

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Call me a noob if you like 😠 but i’m working in photoshop and i have drop shadow layer effects on a few different layers.  
when i add the effect to a new layer and then change the drop shadow settings to suite that layer it changes the drop shadow settings on the other layers to. can someone tell me how to isolate the effect to a given layer so each layer can have a separate drop shadow effect?

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edit  
i just tried something again and it worked. the global light thing all of a sudden starting working. i sweaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar it didn’t work before.

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**Author:** ![sekasi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@sekasi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sekasi)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 11:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-effects-problem/261460/2 "2008-05-27T23:16:02Z")

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uncheck “use global light” in the drop shadow settings for each layer.