Creating Shadows for light box faces

[DPD]

I'm applying vinyl to a face for a lightbox. I'm using a translucent green with a black shadow. What is the preferred method for overlaying the shadow? green on top of black or the other way around

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- dpd

[Sign_Boy]

The two should not over lap if the green is translucent.

Is this what you are looking for?

[imaSIGNr]

Sign Boy is correct. You need to make your shadows" without backing".

[Mike Paul]

Green text with a Black shade can be difficult to pull off on a White background. If it's a medium/dark Green you should use a light color shade.

If the Black shade is a must, use a Drop Shadow with a decent relief to separate it from the Green text. It will make it more legible and fix your color trapping issue.

[DPD]

Thanks all. The designer did it with the shadow under the green. I don't do a lot of illuminated faces and when I saw the dark color under the light color I kinda had a feeling.

I'm glad I asked. I'm going to back the shadow off the way Sign Boy has it and let the customer know about it.