{"id":20824,"date":"2016-03-23T03:01:26","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T17:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=20824"},"modified":"2016-03-23T06:15:34","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T20:15:34","slug":"gimp-drop-shadow-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/gimp-drop-shadow-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Gimp Drop Shadow Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gimp Drop Shadow Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

There’s this billboard in Town Hall Station platform 5, in Sydney … <\/p>\n

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… that I’ve always envied the graphics work of, regarding how it attracts attention. And it is not complicated. It describes a rail trip with coloured circles of colour representing the stations. These circles “come out at you”, simply, via what we later discovered in Gimp, must be a “drop shadow”.<\/p>\n

So we set out to see if something approaching it could be achieved here, and yes, though not as good, the work of …<\/p>\n

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  1. open Paintbrush<\/li>\n
  2. File -> New<\/li>\n
  3. use filled in ellipse toolbox item to create the various coloured circles<\/li>\n
  4. join them with black lines via the line item off this same toolbox<\/li>\n
  5. used File -> Save As our jpeg file<\/li>\n
  6. opened this same file using (the brilliant, the marvellous) Gimp<\/a> (image editor)<\/li>\n
  7. used Tools -> Selection Tools -> Ellipse Select and highlighted each coloured circle in turn with step below<\/li>\n
  8. used Filters -> Light and Shadow -> Drop Shadow… with its default settings (though you graphic experts out there will no doubt do much better) to add shadowing around the circle<\/li>\n
  9. used Export As -> our jpeg file … to result in \"Gimp<\/img><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    … and we don’t half mind the end result, as it stands out in that 3D way we saw at the train station … don’t you think?<\/p>\n

    If this was interesting you may be interested in this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n