Re: Translating release notes

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

I have added Glenn's instructions as README_screenshots.txt. I used
these because they are more explicit, not because I have any opinion
about the technique.

Feel free to fix the README.

On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 14:28 +1300, Glynn Foster wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> > That should be about it. A good place for tips (the place where I learnt
> > all of these) is, of course, #gimp
> 
> >From the Jeff Waugh 'School of GIMP', I received the following which
> doesn't use the drop shadow plugin -
> 
> o Add an Alpha Channel to the image
> o Image > Canvas Size
>   - Add about 50px on each side [so add 100px vertically and 100px horizontally]
> o Right click, Alpha to selection
> o Right click, Layer to image size
> o New transparent layer
> o Shrink selection by 5px [making sure you turn off the shrink from image border checkbox]
> o Feather by 20px
> o Fill selection with black [drag foreground colour over image]
> o Deselect [Ctrl+Shift+a]
> o Choose the move tool, and move the shadown down 8px, right 8px
> o Change shadow layer's transparency to 50%
> o Layer to image size the shadow layer
> o Shift shadown layer below the screenshot
> o Choose the crop tool
> o Select the entire image with the crop tool, click auto shrink, click crop
> o Either flatten it to get a background colour or merge the layers to keep it transparent
> 
> which is obviously more complicated, but tends to lead to better results
> [apparently].
> 
> Glynn
> 
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