Re: [Gimp-user] Question About Recreating a Drop Shadow

[Rick Kline <rick kline ms>]

Kevin,

I took a close look at the file, and the drop shadow has a 4 pixel wide cutout in it. A bit non-standard. I 
was able to recreate the appearance of the original text/drop shadow with the following workflow:

Make a copy of the file. Work with the copy.

1. Select your text layer, edit text to say “THEARTIST” (this is the step I can’t easily do without knowing 
what the font is)
2. Filters menu, Light and Shadow >, Drop Shadow…       (creates a new, editable Drop Shadow layer)
        Offset x = 8
        Offset y = 8
        Blur radius = 15
        Color = Black
        Opacity = 60
Note: I zoomed way in to determine that the blank area in the drop shadow is 4 pixels, so:
2a. Make sure the text layer is still selected.
3. Choose the Fuzzy Select (magic wand) tool
        Hold Shift and click on each letter in turn until all are selected
4. Select menu, Grow, Grow selection by: 2 px
5. Move tool
        Click in selected area
        alt (or option) right arrow twice (should move selection two pixels to the right
        alt (or option) down arrow twice (should move selection two pixels down
6. Select new drop shadow layer
7. Edit menu, Cut (or CTRL (or command) x)
8. Select menu, None
9. Turn off old Drop Shadow layer

That should do it. 

I’m working on an iMac with GIMP 2.8.20

Rick K

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> On May 9, 2017, at 4:10 PM, Kevin Cozens <kevin ve3syb ca> wrote:
>
> On 2017-05-09 02:40 PM, Amber Sunder wrote:
> > I'm new to using GIMP and am trying to edit the work of the person in my
> > position previous to me. She used a drop shadow on the title of the page
> [snip]
> > This isn't your normal drop shadow, so I'm not sure how she created it!
> [snip]
> > this particular document was created using GIMP
>
> GIMP includes a filter to add drop shadow to an item. There are (or were) some filters let you create text 
> with a drop shadow.
>
> You said the drop shadow on the image you are dealing with is not "normal". What is different about it? If 
> the image was created by GIMP it may be slightly different than a drop shadow created by Photoshop (or some 
> other editing program) but it was most likely created using the built-in drop shadow features of GIMP.
>
> -- 
> Cheers!
>
> Kevin.
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