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 > -- Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
