# Photoshop type dropshadow in Illustrator?

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**Created:** [March 16, 2005, 10:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-type-dropshadow-in-illustrator/141018 "2005-03-16T10:15:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![darthmahon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8491ac/32.png) [@darthmahon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/darthmahon)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 10:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-type-dropshadow-in-illustrator/141018/1 "2005-03-16T10:15:01Z")

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Hey,

Ok got Illustrator CS at work and was wondering how I could create the following effect in it?

[http://www.yduk.net/imgtest.gif](http://www.yduk.net/imgtest.gif)

That was created in Photoshop using the following Drop Shadow options:

Blend Mode: Normal  
Distance: 0  
Spread:100  
Size: 10

Now, in Illustrator you just get blur - it doesn’t quite work the same, I have no idea why they don’t just use the tools found in photoshop to allow you to change all of this?

Reason I’m asking is because I want to import these words into flash and I want to be able to scale them without losing quality. Flash has the most basic tools I have ever seen for graphics so I can’t see it being able to be done in there.

Anyone know how to replicate this in Illustrator so I can use it as a vector in flash?

Cheers,  
Chris