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Achieving a long shadow effect with shadow angle spreading out?
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Is it possible to achieve a long shadow effect in GIMP where the long shadow spreads out, as if coming from a central point?  Here's an approximate example of what I mean, which I did by separating the text into 3 parts and applying separate long shadows to each:

   

It should give the general idea but it's only an approximation; each letter should have a different shadow angle pointing out from the letter towards an imaginary circle behind it.  I can't see any way to do this.

Thinking about it, it'd make sense for the long shadow filter to have a "spread" option, where 0 does the current behaviour, negative would modify the angle so the shadow converged, and positive would modify it so the shadow diverged.
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#2
(12-28-2024, 05:32 PM)jez9999 Wrote: Is it possible to achieve a long shadow effect in GIMP where the long shadow spreads out, as if coming from a central point? 
....snip.....

You might get something playing with this old script
(zipped, attached, unzip and put in your Gimp scripts folder C:\Users\"yourname"\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\2.10\scripts )

   

Make some text
Path from text
Path duplicated - stretched - moved
The plugin Filters -> Render -> Path Blend applied.


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#3
Is it attached? I don't see the attachment.
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#4
yep, forgot to attach - fixed now , getting old and absent-minded Wink
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#5
Hmm, well it seems to run extremely slow. Unusable, really, pretty much just sits there spinning the wheel. Ah well, I guess this is why people pay for Adobe stuff.
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#6
Maybe this workflow can help you (found on GC) : http://gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=18699
Also cheap to use  Wink
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#7
(12-28-2024, 09:49 PM)jez9999 Wrote: Hmm, well it seems to run extremely slow.  Unusable, really, pretty much just sits there spinning the wheel.  Ah well, I guess this is why people pay for Adobe stuff.

Yes, it is slow but not unusable, however no one is forcing you to use Gimp so back to P$ - bye-bye
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#8
Also: http://gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=11318
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