#Effects

Vijay is experimenting with inner shadows in Figma. Despite a limit of only 8 shadows, it’s usually enough to create a 3D effect on any shape.

Vijay Verma shares a few techniques for adding simple halftone effects in Figma. See also his experiments with Rogie’s upcoming NT plugin and how he achieved a frosted glass effect.

The plugin allows you to create beautiful shadows by simply dragging a “light source,” which casts a shadow from selected elements. The shadow effect is achieved by layering and easing multiple drop-shadows to create a skeuomorphic shadow umbra and penumbra.

By default, drop shadows are no longer displayed through transparent areas of objects. Check out this thread by Rogie on how this feature came to life.

How to copy and paste an individual property for color or an effect.

Luis shows how to create a cool glass effect using a Morph plugin.

Beautiful effect, reminding me of Kai’s Power Tools. (If you know, you know.)

This tutorial shows how to create attractive blurred backgrounds to get your designs ready for iOS 14 and macOS Big Sur. It’s not specific to Figma, but the advice is solid.

“When more than one fill, stroke, or effect is applied to an element you’ll now see a draggable icon on hover, making it easier to reorder things.” A small but mighty update — it was really painful to drag properties before!

Love the attention to details in Figma!

Now you can adjust shadow spread in Figma on some kinds of objects to create better depth, glows, and borders. It’s fully compatible with the CSS property box-shadow.

“This is a simple mockup with a glass effect created from the video presentation of the new Microsoft tool, Office.”

This is a huge time saver. Can’t believe I never tried this before.

After Smooth Shadow generator made rounds in the design community, its author built a matching Figma plugin. It’s the easiest way to build a nice smooth shadow, and as it’s based on a box-shadow CSS property it’s easy to export and reuse in code later.