Colored grey images with GIMP. GIMP Drop Shadow tutorial · Tankedup-Imaging. Drop shadow world domination It seems that everywhere you look nowadays, if there's an image or some text, someone has drop shadowed it!. I've used it in a limited fashion on the site, for maps and the diver image on the home page. I haven't bothered adding a drop shadow to text, as personally I've never seen text rise up from the page to leave a shadow. Well, there was that time at the Glastonbury Festival, but that was chemically enhanced I suspect Still, each to his own.
If you want to drop shadow text, there's a good tutorial called 'Floating Text (Drop Shadows)' that can be found at Photo Sector. The drop shadow GIMP script-fu This is a standard addition to the default GIMP setup. Open your image, then apply the GIMP Drop Shadow script-fu, which can be found on the active image at Filters » Light and Shadow » Drop-Shadow You are now presented with the drop shadow dialogue box, with various options as below The drop shadow dialogue box variables 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
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How to make a transparent background/selection on an image using. Open your image. Select the area you want to make transparent. Select the appropriate selection tool from the Tool window or the Tools - Selection Tools menu on the Layer window. I usually use the magic wand/fuzzy select (Select contiguous region) tool or the Select regions by color tool. Click in the region you want selected. Use shift-click to add more regions/colors. Tip: It's easier if you zoom in (View - Zoom menu) to see finer details of exactly what you're selecting. And that's it. NOTE: IE does not support showing PNG transparencies (alpha channels) natively.
When saving your image as a GIF from within Gimp, it will prompt you to export it - you can select either Indexed or Greyscale - however, on the next screen (Save as GIF) be sure to check the 'Interlace' option. Tim. The fade effect. Many screenshots in the HelpSetMaker manual use a "fade" effect on the screenshot. We will create this now in a step-by-step fashion. First, some words about the concepts: The concepts For our effect, we need two powerful concepts of GIMP: Layers and layer masks Layers GIMP handles pictures not only as bitmaps arrays, but as a stack of "slides", or, to say it with GIMP's words: "layers".
Layer masks Another important concept is the layer mask. As you might already have concluded, the layer masks will be the most important tool for our fade effect. Prestep: Make the picture maskable Saying every layer in the picture has a mask is a little bit too general. Unfortunately, after loading a PNG file into GIMP, the complete content actually is in the background layer. Open the "Layers" dialog. Remove old background layer. After these two steps, we have the starting point for our mask operation Creating the fade effect You start by actually adding a layer mask to the picture layer. Blur result. Shadow Maps | The Artist's Guide to GIMP Effects. How to Adjust Color Balance in GIMP.