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Inner Shadow

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  • Bernat commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I think this is a rather important feature as this is the way we think about shadows when applying them in CSS.
    The spread and the inner shadow are mainly the only things keeping me and my company from going full in wit Adobe XD for when creating design systems.

  • Chad commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I came up with a workaround that I haven't seen anywhere else. The object blur / mask method is better for allowing objects to be moved around with inner shadows following them (i.e. to update your interface design in the future). Nonetheless, I thought I'd post this method anyway in case anyone finds it useful.

    (BTW, add me to the long list of people desperate to see inner shadow added as a standard feature...)

    First, realize that an inner shadow of an object is logically equivalent to a drop shadow cast by the object's background. This alone might be enough to realize where I'm going...

    Make a copy of the background (or if it's a plain white background, draw a white box). Remove the border. Make a copy of the object(s) you want to add the inner shadow to. After pasting, shift-select the background copy and use Subtract (ctrl-alt-s) to cut holes in the background. Then use CTRL-[ or CTRL-] as necessary to move the object(s) and/or background up/down layer levels until the drop shadow of the background covers the object.

    If the original background itself had a border, then you'll have to position the borderless background copy *just inside* the border of the original background (zoom in a lot so you can line it up exactly).

  • Cody Turk commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Would be a nice option to have.

    The way I got around it is to use the "Line Tool" and then to apply a "Object Blur". I like to use size 2.

  • Kyle Gallagher commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This was requested in 2016... um.... Guys? Did you see this? It has 300+ upvotes.. We gonna add this thing or what?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is seriously ridiculous.
    Stop trying to merge all your tools together to reap more profit.
    Focus on actually making this one tool useful!

    The irony of usability centric design tool that totally lacks...usability.

  • Zach Bruce commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Any update on this? This is really important even though there are workarounds to get inner-shadows looking like they exist (Randy's suggestion below, or using gradients). At our web shop my developers have completely removed inner-shadows from form elements because they can't get instructions from Adobe Xd files / Zeplin inspects. It's something I didn't even realize was happening until I looked back on the year we started using Adobe Xd

  • AdminRandy Edmunds (Sr. Computer Scientist, Adobe) commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Here's a technique for creating inner shadows in Adobe XD. Here's what I did in gif:

    1. Create a Rectangle and give it a fat (20px) border
    2. Set border color to background color (white)
    3. Add Shadow with X=0, Y=0, B=15
    4. Turn off Fill to get inner shadow
    5. Draw a Rectangle over inner shadow, select both Rectangles, and Mask With Shape to remove outer Shadow.

    https://imgur.com/a/WsNfxdZ

    Shadow does not look good in gif, but hopefully this illustrates the technique.

    Hope this helps,
    Randy

  • Logan commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    A way to get around this issue for now is to merge layers that have inner shadows before bringing it into XD

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