Equivalant of Drop Shadow and Screen/Soft light effect in Photoshop

> I don't think we've got a built-in effect for this, but I copy my
> text/logo onto another layer, turn it black if it isn't already, move
> down and over a little bit and apply a gaussan blur. Flatten when
> done.

> Now on the logo layer I click Filters > Blur > Gaussian Blur... > Blur
> Radius 10, 10 > Ok. Though the preview shows my logo has blurred but
> when I okay it the blur does not effect to the logo.

Here is an online tutorial on how to do a drop shadow:
http://gug.sunsite.dk/tutorials/cmarshall2/
Make sure that "Keep Transparency" checkbox (the checkbox next to an
small box with a checkerboard patern under the [x] in the Layers window)
is OFF before you do the blurring.

This check box tells gimp if it should not allow drawing and filters to
effect the transparent parts. Since this blurring would need to spread
into the transparent area, blocking it would look like nothing happened.

> Secondly even without the blur effect I Flatten the image, then I
> tried the blur again and the whole image (now one image but to
> flatten) gets blurred. Why then it didn;t work for my logo?

When you flatten an image you remove all the transparency so the check
box doesn't have any effect.

Also Gimp comes with a script (Script-Fu) to do a simple drop shadow:
Script-Fu->Shadow->Drop Shadow. But it's good to learn how to do it
manually at first since you get a better understanding on how gimp works.

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Hi Catfish

Thanks for your response. I am checking out the link. Thanks a lot.

--- In gimpwin-users%40yahoogroups.com">gimpwin-usersyahoogroups.com, catfish <catfish...> wrote:
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> > I don't think we've got a built-in effect for this, but I copy my
> > text/logo onto another layer, turn it black if it isn't already, move
> > down and over a little bit and apply a gaussan blur. Flatten when
> > done.
>;
> > Now on the logo layer I click Filters > Blur > Gaussian Blur... > Blur
> > Radius 10, 10 > Ok. Though the preview shows my logo has blurred but
> > when I okay it the blur does not effect to the logo.
>;
> Here is an online tutorial on how to do a drop shadow:
&gt; http://gug.sunsite.dk/tutorials/cmarshall2/
> Make sure that "Keep Transparency" checkbox (the checkbox next to an
> small box with a checkerboard patern under the [x] in the Layers
window)
> is OFF before you do the blurring.
>
> This check box tells gimp if it should not allow drawing and filters to
> effect the transparent parts. Since this blurring would need to spread
> into the transparent area, blocking it would look like nothing happened.
>
> > Secondly even without the blur effect I Flatten the image, then I
> > tried the blur again and the whole image (now one image but to
> > flatten) gets blurred. Why then it didn;t work for my logo?
>;
> When you flatten an image you remove all the transparency so the check
> box doesn't have any effect.
&gt;
>
> Also Gimp comes with a script (Script-Fu) to do a simple drop shadow:
> Script-Fu->Shadow->Drop Shadow. But it's good to learn how to do it
> manually at first since you get a better understanding on how gimp
works.
>

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