[Pro] Making Page with Side Drop Shadows

OK. I had no idea what to call this thread.

I want to make a page that has drop shadows onto the background, but just on the left and right side, not top and bottom.

Then, the background has two images on either side.

I hope this makes sense.

I haven’t found a similar site or I would post a link.

Thanks.

Bob


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Have a look at http://www.softpress.com/products/greatfeatures/frameapage/

See if that helps

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I looked at that, but it’s actually a little more complicated than that.

The page and the background have multiple colors. There, say. four strips of color that run horizontally across the page at different widths. The middle part (the page that’s shadowed) has these colors also, but they are offset a little from the background.

I’m searching for an example.

So far I just have the design in a PDF from InDesign.

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Here’s a PDF of what the design is.

http://k923.net/ccas_review/CCAS_Web_COMP.pdf

The pictures on each side of the “page” will change on each page, too.

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Bob,

I had a quick look on it and to give you maybe further assistance, I think it’s necessary to have a few more infos:

  1. What shall happen if “Maincontent” have different lenght on different pages? Shall the white stripe (with the pets) grow in its height aswell and shall the yellow and purple stripes pushed down with this growing content?

  2. Shall the purple and yellow (and white stripes) stretch all across the page?

You might guess the reason for the questions?

If 1-2 yes, it smells like “inline construction” if no:

  1. What shall happen then left/and right end?

Not as an advice, but things like these could need the help of a pixelmator (whatever sort of :slight_smile: ), cause shadow like this I sometimes throw into a basic pagewide container (if I do not boxmodel what I do in 99,9%). But if we need a more flexible basic construction … hmmm, it could be a pain.

Cheers

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Thanks, Thomas.

I’m in the middle of working something up now. I understand all your questions, but the designer (Who happens to be my business partner and girlfriend!) isn’t quite sure how she wants the page to flow, yet. I’ve asked her!

Yes, the shadowing didn’t work at all in Freeway. I’ve done 90% of the work in Photoshop and am about to putting it together.

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Here’s a PDF of what the design is.

http://k923.net/ccas_review/CCAS_Web_COMP.pdf

Getting a 404 on that link

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Yeah, I took it down.

Here’s what I did in Freeway eventually.

http://k923.net/ccas_review/index.html


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OK

Let us have another look once you have some content.

And once you have got that pesky designer to make up her mind :wink:

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Yeah!

I quickly threw some content in there to make sure the page grows properly and the middle section moves down to compensate.

I have some more bits to put in the middle section before I get to add content.

I’ll update you guys when there’s some substantial additions.

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