Still keeping the selection intact, open up the drop shadow dialogue again and this time choose 0 for both the Offset X and Offset Y fields, and double what you chose earlier for the Blur Radius field - mine will be 30 - and press OK. I'm just going to use the default ones and click OK. In the dialogue, you can tweak the settings to your liking. Open up the drop shadow dialogue under 'Filters'->'Light and Shadow'->'Drop Shadow'. Then invert the selection by going to the 'select'->'invert' menu. Then select the color select tool and click on the white text to select it. Select the text layer, right click it and choose 'layer to image size'. Or If you feel skilled with the paint brush you can paint a shadow from scratch as show below:Īnd in mixing techniques you can come up with convincing shadows for your design:Ĭreating a drop shadow on the inside of text.Ĭreate a new image (I chose 800 by 600), choose a background pattern (I chose pine) and write the words GIMP in big bold letters and in white. If we want to get more advanced we can add a layer mask to the drop shadow layer and mask off only the bottom part of the shadow (or erase the rest with the eraser if you want). Maybe not exact to what you want, so playing around with the values, we can come up with something nice. The default values make a drop shadow like this: Play around with them to your liking or purpose. There are many options, X and Y change the distance from the object the shadow is left/right and up/down, the values go positive and negative. Now, go to in the menu -> Filters -> Light and Shadow -> Drop Shadow.
Making a drop shadow is quite simple in gimp, but is a bit tricky sometimes.įirst make a selection, this will be the area where your drop-shadow will be made.
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