Many readers will appreciate that in most of the articles where I put an image, I add a kind of shadow to give it a more beautiful appearance, as in this one that starts this post.
I make the shadow with Gimp, which for me has nothing to envy Photoshop, at least for the things I need. How do I do it? It is very simple. First of all, let's see the tools we will use:
Let's do it..
1- We open Gimp » File » Open »And we look for any image.
2- To give space to the shade, we will Image » Canvas Size and we increase the value of the proportion, leaving a considerable space as you can see in the image.
3- With the tool Move Tool We move the image layer a little to the center, to detach it from the upper and left edges.
4- We create a new layer, white.
and we move it under the image layer.
5- Then we create another layer, but in this case transparent and it should be placed between the image layer, and the white layer.
6- With the tool Square Selection, we draw a box on the transparent layer, which is a few pixels outside the Image layer. We click to set the selection.
7- With the Paint pot, we apply a color (by default it is black #00000), although we can use the color selector to choose another, for example a more gray one (# 7b7b7b).
8- When you have the color we want, with the Messenger We paint the box that we marked on the transparent layer.
9- We use the key combination Ctrl + Shift + A to uncheck the transparent layer selection. And now comes the trick that is very simple.
10- Let's Filters » Blur » Gaussian Blur (Gaussian Blur) and in the radio options we put as value 30.0 in both (horizontal and vertical) or more, depending on the effect you want to achieve.
11- Then with the Crop tool we select adjust the visible size of the layers.
12- To finish we save the image and if we want, we delete the white layer.