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Outer Glow - GIMP

Submitted by Mafia_Penguin on Tue, 01/13/2009 - 02:14.

Make an Outer Glow in GIMP

What you need:

1. Open the file.
2. Go to Layer>Transparency, and click on "Alpha to selection".

3. Go to Select>Grow, and change the "1px" to "3px".

4. Go to Layer>New Layer, and make it the same size as the PNG.

5. On your keyboard, type Ctrl+L.

6. In the Layers dialog that opened, drag the "New Layer" below "Background".

7. Select the Paintbucket tool. Fill the selection with white.

8. On the keyboard, type Ctrl+Shift+A.

9. In the menus, go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur, and click OK.

It glows (:

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 04/22/2009 - 16:00.

Why doesn't GIMP just have a built-in Outer Glow feature like Photoshop?

Submitted by ingalls on Sat, 05/09/2009 - 09:31.

here is a plugin for GIMP that is supposed to make outer glows and a handful of other effects
http://registry.gimp.org/node/186

cheers
ingals

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