Brightness-Contrast to achieve the metallic look. The pen shadow (as well as the engraved emblem shadow) was made with the Perspective Shadow Script- Fu, cleared of color and filled with an FG to transparent waterdrops on a solid blue background. I desaturated it and made a duplicate to create a highlight and a shadow layer. This was achieved by adjusting the tonal range with Image/Levels. To create the illusion of And Bright Layer The bottle was cut out, rotated and pasted to a transparent layer. Highlight and shadow bottles were created with Levels (but not desaturated), and the highlight bottle was allowed to keep

point the spotlight. This value also has an impact on the sphere shadow. If you don’t want a shadow, you just have remove the tick on the "shadow" checkbox. The last thing you have to select is background color • Shadow • Stencil Ops • Utils Stencil Ops Here, you’ll find two scripts: Carve-It and Chrome-It, which can render some truly nice artistic effects on grayscale images. Drop Shadow Drop Shadow will will cast a shadow behind your selected object. It has three important parameters. X and Y offset determine where the shadow will be placed in relation to the selected object. Offset is measured in pixels

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711 17.6 Light and Shadow Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713 17.6.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725 17.6.7 Drop Shadow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 727 17.6.8 Long Shadow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731 17.6.10 Drop Shadow (legacy) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 734 17.6.11 Perspective

start using the GIMP. Let's create an effect known as a "drop shadow" for a rectangular image. A drop shadow looks like a blurry shadow underneath an image. It helps add depth to a picture. You can direction, we get an image where the black rectangle has moved some: Image C To make the shadow of the picture blurry, do the command "Filters->Blur->Gaussian Blur" and use a radius of about 8 D. When you click "OK," you'll get the final result: Final Image Now you can create a drop shadow anytime! You'll discover that practice makes everything easier and that keyboard shortcuts exist

installed by default: • Alchemy • Alpha to logo • Animators • Decor • Render • Selection • Shadow • Stencil Ops • Utils GNU Image Manipulation Program Generated by docbook2odf Page 49 of 421 functions available in Gimp's procedural database and call those functions directly. So fire up the DB Browser and let's get cookin'! Let's begin by making a new image. We'll create a new variable, theImage theImage, set to the result of calling Gimp's built-in function gimp-image-new. As you can see from the DB Browser, the function gimp-image-new takes three parameters -- the image's width, height and the type