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- In this movie we'll set
off the magnifying glass from

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it's background by assigning
this drop shadow to

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an entire layer.

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And, while this is a little
bit conceptually extravagant at

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this point, it's actually
really easy to pull off.

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So, I'm going to go
ahead and switch back to

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our document so far,

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and I'm going to click on the
angled layer to select it.

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And then, what I want you to do is,

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notice this little
circle right over here in

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the right hand column.

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That allows you to target
that specific item.

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And in this case, what
we're going to do is

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target this entire layer
by clicking on that circle.

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You should see, not
only this orange square,

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which tells us that we have
selected paths on this layer,

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but you also see a second
circle around the first one

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which tell us that the
layer has been targeted.

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All right, now what I want you to do is,

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go up to the Effect menu, choose Stylize,

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and then choose Drop Shadow.

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That will bring up the
Drop Shadow dialogue box.

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Now, by default, you're going to see

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X Offset, Y Offset, and
Blur all set to five points.

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All I want you to do is
take them all three down to

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four points instead.

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So, we've got a Mode of
Multiply, don't worry about that,

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that just darkens things up.

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We have an Opacity value of 75%,

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and then we have X Offset, Y Offset,

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and Blur values of four points apiece.

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If you want to see what that looks like

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go ahead and turn on
the preview check box.

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And by virtue of the fact that
the entire layer is targeted,

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the various items on the layer are not

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interacting with each other.

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In other words, the black
portion of the handle isn't

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casting a shadow on
the metallic portion of

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the handle, and so forth.

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Instead, the entire layer is
casting a drop shadow on the

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stars and the red and
blue shapes behind it.

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At which point you can
go ahead and click OK

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in order to apply that effect.

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Now, remember how, when we
first created the document

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by going to the file menu
and chosing the New command,

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remember how the Raster
Effects are set to just 72 ppi,

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and I was telling you way back when

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that Raster Effects are anything that

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can convert it to pixels,

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which is what happens with drop shadows.

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Drop shadows, because they are soft,

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get converted to pixels on the fly.

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So, I want you to see
what that looks like.

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I'm just going to go
ahead and zoom in here,

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quite far, in order to see if
I can make out a single pixel.

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So, even though this is an
extremely low res drop shadow,

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which is why it applied
so quickly incidentally,

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it just so happens to look great even when

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I am zoomed in to 3200%.

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Which means that it is going
to print nicely, as well.

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All right, so I'm just
going go ahead and zoom out

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and then click off those
paths to deselect them.

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And that, very simply, is how
you assign a drop shadow to

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an entire layer here inside Illustrator.