Re: [Gimp-user] drop shadow
Steve, that's wonderful -- hand roll my own shadows! Seems so simple and obvious after it's explained that I wonder why I ever thought I needed a plug-in for this. So cool! Thanks, Steve On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Steve Kinney ad...@pilobilus.net wrote: On 06/03/2013 10:32 PM, Helen wrote: I have an image with two rectangular photos, in separate layers. I want each photo to have a drop shadow. No matter what I do, I keep getting the drop shadow applied to the entire image, not to the layers. I've tried creating the drop shadow while on the individual layers, while on the background, I've tried it with layers selected -- regardless of what I do, the drop shadow keeps applying to the entire image. I used to know how to do this! Help? Suse 12.3, gimp 2.8 Hey Helen, You might want to try doing Layers Autocrop Layer against the layers with photos in them, before using a drop shadow plugin on them. That might do the trick. Or make the shadows yourself - this would be my approach: 1. Create a new transparent layer, move it below the two layers with photos in them. 2. Select one of the layers with a photo in your Layers dock, right click the layer thumbnail and do Alpha to selection 3. Select the new transparent layer, drag and drop to the main canvas to fill the selection with black. 4. Select the other layer with a photo, right click and do Alpha to selection again. 5. Select the new transparent layer, drag and drop to fill the 2nd selection with black. 6. Do Select None (or control + alt + a) to clear the selection. Your transparent layer now has two black rectangles, hidden under the photos in the layers above. Use the tool at Filters Blur Gaussian Blur to soften the edges of the shadow rectangles, then turn on the Move tool in your main toolbox and use the arrow keys on your keyboard to tweak the location of the shadows. Adjust the shadow layer's transparency if required. :o) Steve ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list -- Helen Etters using Linux, suse12.3 ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] drop shadow
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 22:32:39 -0400 From: etter...@gmail.com To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org Subject: [Gimp-user] drop shadow I have an image with two rectangular photos, in separate layers. I want each photo to have a drop shadow. No matter what I do, I keep getting the drop shadow applied to the entire image, not to the layers. I've tried creating the drop shadow while on the individual layers, while on the background, I've tried it with layers selected -- regardless of what I do, the drop shadow keeps applying to the entire image. I used to know how to do this! Help? Suse 12.3, gimp 2.8 Thanks much I'm curious how this is even happening in the first place, because from my experience the drop shadow uses, in order: 1 - If you have a selection, it creates a shadow based on the selection mask. 2 - Or, if your layer has an alpha channel, it uses that. 3 - Otherwise, it uses the entire current layer. It's true that performing your own shadows is completely doable, but if it's something you do a lot then having an automated script/plug-in for it does save you a lot of work. (Assuming it functions correctly, of course.) Do you have screenshots of what your results are? If it's creating a drop shadow around the entire image border then the most obvious problem would normally be not having the correct layer selected before executing it (or having layer boundaries extended to the whole image). -- Stratadrake strata_ran...@hotmail.com Numbers may not lie, but neither do they tell the whole truth. ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
[Gimp-user] Topic Change: GEGL abstraction Was:GIMP app?
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 6:44 AM, Michael Natterer mi...@gimp.org wrote: Apple sucks and doesn't allow GPL in the App store. Apple will unofficially allow it but as soon as much as a single contributor toots the GNU horn about distribution restrictions and license conflict they'll immediately pull it from the app store (see VLC app pulled from app store). GIMP is 90% GUI code and porting that would be a complete rewrite. Isn't the purpose of GEGL integration attempting to pull as much of the graphical functions out of GIMP as possible so that GUI could be switched but the underlying library has the same quality of image manipulation? If that's not the case what is the point of GEGL? SAM ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] Topic Change: GEGL abstraction Was:GIMP app?
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Sam Gleske wrote: Right, it has features. Being that it's a library is it not to provide some abstraction and help simplify the implementation? As it is in a library, writing another GUI on top of it would be possible and considerably easier than previous iterations of GIMP. The user interaction would change but not the features provided. Sam, I don't understand why you are trying to insist on UI change as one of GEGL points. Yes, one could create an entirely new image editor based on GEGL. In fact, there's at least one such project. But that is simply not the reason we use GEGL in GIMP. I don't know how else to explain that. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
