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Hi There, and thanks in advance to anyone who will help me to understand how it works ( or never will )

- I'm using two shapes, identical, with a gradient in each (1 Original shapes)

- The left one I added a shadow to separate it from the one at right

- I want to keep only the overlapping part of that shadow, on the shape at the right and make the rest of the shadow invisible, so I can composite the result on whatever background I choose.

- A simple mask does not work (2 Mask Positive)

- A negative mask ( shape punched in a rectangle ) works mainly, but I can only use it with a flat background and use the same flat color fir the mask (3 Mask negative)

I hope this makes sense, and that there is a solution other than rasterize...

Again Thanks to anyone who can shed a light on this :)

Dominique

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Isn't the last image the effect you want?

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4 minutes ago, Dominique Prudhomm said:

very close

Only “very close”? I can’t see the difference!

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Ok ok when I say very close I mean I have to adapt my file to this. Don't take it badly, I spent hours trying and trying and got almost crazy. Did the same experiment in Sketch, and no way.

Thanks, Beautiful Minds, to help me understand :)

Dominique

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Not embarrasing at alI ( I feel myself like an idiot most of the time ) I created those shapes in Sketch, which I am more familiar than AD . You can round every point of your shape, then substract another shape. You have to be very precise but it works well :)image.thumb.png.20839f16ff2a8878816b5fabdf9735fa.png

Having said that I feel like an idiot, this is the proof: What did I do wrong, following FirstDefence solution ?

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5 minutes ago, Dominique Prudhomm said:

What did I do wrong, following FirstDefence solution ?

What are your settings for the drop shadow applied to the nested shape?

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And changing the Blending Mode, the Radius or the offset does not change anything. Same for the Fill knocking checkbox. I'm lost in this jungle.

 

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You should duplicate the Left shape and nest that into the Right shape

You appear to have duplicated the Right shape and nested that duplicate into the Right shape

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You will need to set the shadow radius above zero in order to see the shadow. The radius is the "size" of the shadow. And tick the "Scale with Object" box so it stays in proportion if you change the size.

Also, see what Carl says above.

Attached is my attempt. Feel free to pull it apart and have a root around.

 

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OMG, or "Allah Allah" as they say in my country ( Turkish Cyprus ). I have my logo now and can do whatever I want with it.

This is really the Egg of Columbus story : I'm the King of the Hill now.

The symbol on the right is called a "Nazar", the ubiquitous Devil Eye in East Mediterranean, supposed to protect you from the demons, always.

May it protect you all as well.

Thanks to you all to show me the way.

Dominique

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