Gimp Series: How to make drop shadows

Posted on March 14th, 2008 in Applications, Gimp by admin

This will be the first in many Gimp tutorials for TuxTraining.com. Gimp is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages. Most distributions come with it preinstalled and if it is not, it’s in the repo’s of your distribution.

In this tutorial we’re going to learn how to do drop shadows for an image. First we’ll start with a base image that I’ll provide. It’s a png with a transparent background. This should work on any shape or image you have already though. Go ahead and download this picture and open it in Gimp.