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I'd like to increase the weight and colour of a beamer shadow.
The code to create a block with a shadow in Beamer is:
\begin{beamercolorbox}[rounded=true,shadow=true]{title}
blah
\end{beamercolorbox}%
I'm basically after a way to get more shadow.
Thanks.
wd=<dimen> not only sets the width of the beamercolorbox to <dimen>, it sets the \hsize to <dimen>. So you're centering a box in a line which has the same width as the box, resulting in nothing.
So to force centering, use some \hfills:
\documentclass{beamer}
\setbeamercolor{bgcolor}{fg=black,bg=blue}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\hfill
\begin{beamercolorbox}[rounded=true, center, shadow=true,wd=6cm]{bgcolor}
Some text goes here...
\end{beamercolorbox}
\hfill\hfill
\end{frame}
\end{document}
I'm not sure why you need two at the end—it seems like one at the front and back would do the centering. But instead you just get a box flush right. So an extra one does the trick.
If I zoom the table on page 8 I don't see any drop shadow and all the rules are black; however, if you want to give a drop shadow to the table, you can put the tabular inside a \node and use the shadows library from TikZ:
\documentclass[xcolor={dvipsnames,table}]{beamer}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shadows}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\begin{center}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\node[drop shadow,fill=white,inner sep=0pt]
{\rowcolors{1}{RoyalBlue!20}{RoyalBlue!5}
\begin{tabular}{|l|c|}\hline
J.\ S.\ Bach & 1685--1750 \\
W.\ A.\ Mozart & 1756--1791 \\
L.\ Beethoven & 1770--1827 \\
F.\ Chopin & 1810--1849 \\
R.\ Schumann & 1810--1856 \\ \hline
\end{tabular}%
};
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{center}
\end{frame}
\end{document}
On a side note, and just as a personal opinion, I would remove the vertical rules from the table.
Here's another option using \shadowbox from the fancybox package:
\documentclass[xcolor={dvipsnames,table}]{beamer}
\usepackage{fancybox}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\begin{center}
\setlength\fboxsep{0pt}
\shadowbox{%
\rowcolors{1}{RoyalBlue!20}{RoyalBlue!5}
\begin{tabular}{|l|c|}\hline
J.\ S.\ Bach & 1685--1750 \\
W.\ A.\ Mozart & 1756--1791 \\
L.\ Beethoven & 1770--1827 \\
F.\ Chopin & 1810--1849 \\
R.\ Schumann & 1810--1856 \\ \hline
\end{tabular}%
}
\end{center}
\end{frame}
\end{document}
Best Answer
tcolorbox is very useful to produce this kind of boxes. It includes a library (
skins) which among other features introduces commandNext code is adapted (to a more
beamerstyle) from an example in tcolorbox's userguide.