I have found that the Simple Theme is a really great theme to work with when designing blogs, but I always need to get rid of the pesky shadows to have a nice clean slate for designing.
All you have to do, is go to your Dashboard, and select Template‚ and Customize.
That brings you to your Template Designer, where you will need to go to your Advanced tab and click on Add CSS.

Here are the codes that you need to paste in that section.
To get rid of the Header Text Shadow, paste this:
.Header h1 { text-shadow:none; }
To get rid of the Post Area Background Shadow, paste this:
.content-outer { -webkit-box-shadow:none; box-shadow:none; }
To get rid of you Post Image, Sidebar Image, & Profile Image Shadows, paste this:
.post-body img, .post-body .tr-caption-container, .Profile img, .Image img, .BlogList .item-thumbnail img { -webkit-box-shadow:none; box-shadow:none; }
That's It :) Super Simple!
Carolynn

Thank you, thank you, thank you for this post. I have been trying to figure out how to get rid of the shadow behind my post pictures FOREVER!!! Super helpful.
ReplyDeletethis just made my day!
ReplyDeleteThank you, this is very helpful! :-)
ReplyDeleteNot sure what I've done wrong, but it's not working for me :(
ReplyDeleteAny suggestions?
Angela
Thanks - I followed your instructions and it worked!!
ReplyDeleteMe, too. I am so grateful, but it's not working for me. I'd love to hear your suggestions!
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ps. this sort of tutorial is SO helpful!
For those of you that the tutorial is not working for, what web browser are you using? I think it may be a browser thing.... Let me know and I will try to look into it.
ReplyDeleteThanks!
-Carolynn
makincuteblogs.com
It worked great for me in Firefox.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much! was trying to work out how to do this for ages!
ReplyDeleteThaaaaank youuuuu!!!! I can't tell you how much those shadows were bothering me!
ReplyDeleteI can't get this to work :(
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Can anyone help out please?
So sorry, I didn't see this...any luck?
Deletei cant get this to work either :(
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thanks!!
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Are you using Chrome as your browser...that may be it. Let us know.
Deleteyou are my hero!! thank you a million times!! :)
ReplyDeleteThis was such an amazing help!! Only guide I found that used a css. Thank you so much!!
ReplyDeleteAshley xo
Thanks Ashley!
DeleteI just had to re-add the CSS to my other blog...for some reason it mysteriously disappeared. But it does work beautifully!
I cannot get any of the codes to work for me :(. Is chrome the issue? I really like chrome id hate to have to change
ReplyDeleteYes, it is probably the Chrome. Are you having issues with a gray shadow around your images?
DeleteI use Chrome and this code works beautifully for me. Thanks so much I love it!
ReplyDeleteI'm using firefox and I've never had css codes ever work for me, how can I edit the html code to change this? I've been trying to fix this for a week with minimal luck, well honestly the only think I've accomplished is removing the border line. Any help will be most appreciated!
ReplyDeleteThere are many sites that offer code and where to remove code in your actual HTML template...you may want to google what you're looking for...make sure and back up your blog before attempting to change the code. Good luck!
DeleteHi! I just want to know how to align the text to the images now, I got rid of the shadows with the code but even though I select images to align left, there is that gap from the shadow border. So the images and text are at different distances from the left margin.
ReplyDeleteThank you!!! This is so helpful!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for this tip. It worked like a charm and only took a minute or two.
ReplyDeleteHi. I added all this code to my blog earlier today but I can't get rid of the shadows on the arrows for the blog archive. There another code to add?
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