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 _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n