How to create shadow effects Desdelinux with Gimp

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.