Today I’m practicing drop Shadows

       I love learning new things and today I have been practicing Drop shadows.   They are a way of creating a 3D effect for text or graphics.   Drop shadows are used to produce a contrast between background and subject matter.

       To accomplish this, I have been using a free software program called The Gimp.   First, I type out the text twice, using two different layers and colors.   Think of layers as copies of the same picture, that can lie on top of each other, because the background is transparent.   The text in the background layer is blurred, and the text of the top layer is positiond over it, but slightly off center.   The last step is to merge (flatten) the layers.