On 6/27/2002, on [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael J. Hammel wrote: >>This assumes an image with only one layer to start with. >> >>1. Add an alpha channel to your layer. >>2. Add a new layer below your current one. Make it the color you want for >> the background. >>3. Resize your original layer down by X pixels in both width and height. >> "X" is the offset you'll use for the drop shadow, which will default to 15 >> pixels (as you'll see later). >>4. With your original layer selected, choose Script-Fu->Shadow->Drop Shadow >> from the Canvas menus. >>5. Make the offset match the "X" value from step 3. Make sure "Allow >> Resizing" is *not* set. >> >>The drop shadow will be created below your original layer but above the >>background. You may want reposition your original layer. You can do that >>using the Layers->Align Layers option.
I appreciate your effort to explain this. It is helpful info but misses the intent of my request. That was my fault as I didn't explain it very well. I wanted to preserve the dimensions of the original image; just increasing the size with the addition of the shadow. Another member of this list provided me with a Perl script that makes use of ImageMagick and other tools that enabled me to add a drop shadow to 40 jpeg images in an hour. -Debra -- .------------------------------------------------------------------. |Debra Douglass [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.catrio.org| `------------------------------------------------------------------' _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
