Place PSD into AI then cannot do drop shadow

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I placed a psd image into my Adobe Illustrator doc. I then selected the layer and then did an Effect / Stylize / Drop Shadow but no shadow appeared. When I view the "Appearance" of this image, it says the drop shadow is there. But it is definitely not shown.

I am using Photoshop CS and AI CS 12.0.1.

I have placed psd images before and have been able to apply the drop shadow just fine.

This particular psd file is multi-layered and the layers are all linked.

Thanks for any suggestions,
Angela
#1
You need to ask about that in the Illustrator forum. It's an Illustrator command that is failing you, not a Photoshop command.
#2
My guess is that the shadow is happening to the entire image, so of course you don't see it. What happens if you unlink a layer, and apply your drop shadow using the Photoshop method.
#3
I just resolved the issue this morning. I opened the image in AI, selecting the option to maintain the layers. The I did a Select All and Copy, then Pasted into the master doc. After that, with the secondary image still selected (with all of its layers) I was able to scale down and add the Drop Shadow.

Thanks so much,
Angela
#4