> Hello people, > > I do the following: > > 1) A solid background, > 2) A text of 5 lines, which is generated on a new layer > 3) I move the text around a bit to align it, using the move tool, > > With the text layer selected, I use tha drop-shadow, hoping to create a > shadow of the text, but instead, the shadow layer appears _before_ the > selected text layer, and the background layer gets displaced to the right > and below. > > No shadow is visible. If I do the drop shados before 3), then the shadow > is rendered correctly. > > Am I doing something wrong here? I installed 2.4.5 to be sure the problem > wasn't in 2.4.4 only.
I think you are probably doing something wron. Open the layers dialogue so you see what is going on. Make a new transparent layer Make your text Move it around Merge down to the new transparent layer Drop shadow it Owen _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
