If you need "real" shadow effects (i.e. if the image data itself should contain the shadow), you can follow the suggestion below but using GD to achieve the effect by concatenating images.
If you're looking for a solution to *display* the thumbnails in the page, then this is what I would do: I'd create the shadow of a rectangle in any imaging software, with the appropriate blur size and transparency for the given situation (depending on thumbnail size and background color/pattern, respectively). Then I'd create a new layer to mask the undesired portion of the shadow (a placeholder for the actual thumbnail in effect), select it and use the selection to trim the shadow. I'd now have a mirrored L-shaped shadow mask. I would now determine where exactly do the corners end and where the continous linear parts begin (to the pixel, by deeply zooming in). Now all I'd have to do would be to trim the five areas which are different (three corners, a vertical and a horizontal patch) and I'd save those as five distinct files - and then use tables to display them around each thumbnails. The corners would be <TD><IMG SRC="top_right.png"></TD> and the vertical and horizontal ones would be <TD BACKGROUND="horizontal.png"><IMG SRC="spacer.gif"></TD>. You'll obviously have to make sure that the corner images match their width/height with the respective backgrounds. HTH Bogdan Steph wrote: > I'm trying to auto-add shadow effects to my image thumbs using PHP or the GD Library >if that's even possible. Any ideas where I start? > > Thanks, > > Steph > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
