[REQUEST] Drop Shadowing

[Krush_Brother]

I'm not sure that I'd want things like drop shadows built-in.
I prefer to do that myself so that I have complete control over it.
If it was there, I'd use it (if it was done well enough), but I imagine there are more important things to be worked on.

Sure, but there's several extra steps involved in that. I'd much rather check a check box and set a few parameters...

Not that many extra steps really.
Using Photoshop:



--> Create Shape/Text.
--> Duplicate Layer, add full black Colour Overlay, and Gaussian Blur of 5.0
--> Save Image.png and shadow.png
--> Offset shadow behind image in MMF2.

Krush

[Tuna]

This idea wasn't intended strictly for text... and Novabrain is quite correct, drop shadows for text do make the text stand out and more readable.

I'm a graphics designer myself, and yes, creating the drop shadows isn't that tough... I see your point that it's only a matter of adding the shadow as a second object and positioning it adjacent to the active.

and so, that's how I'll handle shadowing for my purposes in MMF2...

Thanks!

[Krush_Brother]

Maybe with HWA, they'll eventually get around to adding it to MMF2 (or MMF3?).
If they could match the quality we can get from designing them graphically, I'd use it.