tryptych query

Hi all,

I was trying this tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4mcJ9R-wgs
After completing the tutorial I’m trying to add an fx style (drop shadow and stroke) to each of the photos as well as around the canvas. The first and third photos work ok (alt+draging the "fx’ icon)…but I can’t seem to get the effect around the middle photo. What am I missing here? Thank you in advance (using CS5)

Cheers,

Paul

Update: By creating a blank layer first and then adding the 3 photos manually…positioning them and cropping with a white border around them, it’s easy to add the layer styles. I guess the issue is that one of the photos (in the tutorial) becomes the background layer and so the layer style affects the border not the photo.

"Paul Burdett" wrote in message

Hi all,

I was trying this tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4mcJ9R-wgs
After completing the tutorial I’m trying to add an fx style (drop shadow and stroke) to each of the photos as well as around the canvas. The first and third photos work ok (alt+draging the "fx’ icon)…but I can’t seem to get the effect around the middle photo. What am I missing here? Thank you in advance (using CS5)

Cheers,

Paul

Update: By creating a blank layer first and then adding the 3 photos manually…positioning them and cropping with a white border around them, it’s easy to add the layer styles. I guess the issue is that one of the photos (in the tutorial) becomes the background layer and so the layer style affects the border not the photo.

"Paul Burdett" wrote in message

Hi all,

I was trying this tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4mcJ9R-wgs
After completing the tutorial I’m trying to add an fx style (drop shadow and stroke) to each of the photos as well as around the canvas. The first and third photos work ok (alt+draging the "fx’ icon)…but I can’t seem to get the effect around the middle photo. What am I missing here? Thank you in advance (using CS5)

Cheers,

Paul

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"Paul Burdett" wrote:

Update: By creating a blank layer first and then adding the 3 photos manually…positioning them and cropping with a white border around them, it’s easy to add the layer styles. I guess the issue is that one of the photos (in the tutorial) becomes the background layer and so the layer style
affects the border not the photo.

"Paul Burdett" wrote in message

Hi all,

I was trying this tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4mcJ9R-wgs
After completing the tutorial I’m trying to add an fx style (drop shadow
and stroke) to each of the photos as well as around the canvas. The first
and third photos work ok (alt+draging the "fx’ icon)…but I can’t seem to
get the effect around the middle photo. What am I missing here? Thank you
in advance (using CS5)

Cheers,

Paul

Each part of the triptych should be on its own layer.
Arrange the photos approximately.
Use the layer function ‘align’ to put them perfectly in line. Add the shadow effect and stroke to one of them, then copy the effect and paste it into the other layers (click to right of layer icon).

Thank you all…much appreciated:)

Paul