Drop Shadow on black background?

I'm trying to incorporate a white 'Drop Shadow' effect on red text placed on a black background on a psd document but the white drop shadow effect doesn't show. Obviously the black background and red text are on separate layers.

Is it therefore possible to include light colours/white 'drop shadow effects' on text when they are placed on a black background

Any help appreciated,

Cheers.

Yes.

With your red text layer as the active layer, choose "layer" (from the upper main menu, next to "file", "edit", etc..), then "layer style", then "drop shadow".

In the drop-shadow options box, you will see a little block of color to the right of the "blend mode" drop-down menu. Click on that block of color and pick the color you want your drop shadow to be - white in your case.

Once in drop shadow option box, you have all sorts of options to play with (size, spread, color, etc, of drop shadow).

One of these options is "blend mode". Mine, for whatever reason, is usually on "multiply" or "screen" by default. Depending on which blend mode you choose, you may or may not see any visibale change to the image.
In your case, I put some red text on a black background and changed the drop shadow color of the text to white, but had to try different blend modes until I found one that rendered the desired effect - a white drop shadow. Just try all the different blend modes until you find one that renders the white drop shadow the way you want it, and remember that some of the modes will make the drop shadow invisible. .

Ez
PS 7

Thanks Ezmerelda, problem solved It turned out that I had to set the 'Blend Mode' to 'the 'Normal' setting in order for the drop shadow effect to become visible.

Thanks again.

Cheers,

Richard.