Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 06, 2007 10:35 PM
(I know next-to-nothing- about art/GIMP.)
On step 6, reordering the layers, the original layer won't move. It's labeled "Background", and although I can move the other two layers from top to middle and vice-versa, the Background layer won't move. I assume there's something special about the Background layer, and perhaps your instructions should indicate to duplicate this layer and then hide it by clicking off the eye, so I tried this, which I suppose works; this allows me to move the "Background copy" to the top, putting the shadow layer second, the white layer third, and the original layer ("Background") on the bottom with eye turned off.
On step 7, I click on the shadow layer, and then click on Tools -> Transform Tools -> Move, and when I press an arrow key, a dotted-line square moves over the image in the direction I push, but nothing about the image changes. If instead of using the arrow keys I use the mouse, the highlight changes temporarily in the Layers dialog box to the "Background copy" layer, and that's the layer that appears to be moving. When I let go of the mouse, the highlight drops back to the shadow layer that I had clicked on previously, and the image now shows my original picture shifted over a bit with the blackened image showing on one side of that image, but there's no mixing of the two images; it just looks like two Polaroids in your hand, with the top one shifted a bit to see a part of the one underneath.
Obviously I'm doing something wrong. I'm going to try the other shadow method mentioned, but I'd like to understand what's going wrong with this method.
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Re:Addung a Drop Shadow
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 06, 2007 10:35 PMOn step 6, reordering the layers, the original layer won't move. It's labeled "Background", and although I can move the other two layers from top to middle and vice-versa, the Background layer won't move. I assume there's something special about the Background layer, and perhaps your instructions should indicate to duplicate this layer and then hide it by clicking off the eye, so I tried this, which I suppose works; this allows me to move the "Background copy" to the top, putting the shadow layer second, the white layer third, and the original layer ("Background") on the bottom with eye turned off.
On step 7, I click on the shadow layer, and then click on Tools -> Transform Tools -> Move, and when I press an arrow key, a dotted-line square moves over the image in the direction I push, but nothing about the image changes. If instead of using the arrow keys I use the mouse, the highlight changes temporarily in the Layers dialog box to the "Background copy" layer, and that's the layer that appears to be moving. When I let go of the mouse, the highlight drops back to the shadow layer that I had clicked on previously, and the image now shows my original picture shifted over a bit with the blackened image showing on one side of that image, but there's no mixing of the two images; it just looks like two Polaroids in your hand, with the top one shifted a bit to see a part of the one underneath.
Obviously I'm doing something wrong. I'm going to try the other shadow method mentioned, but I'd like to understand what's going wrong with this method.
Thanks!
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