Blog Photos

1. Prepare the image on the working space.

2. Open the layers window (Window >> Layers >> and create a new layer (shft+ctrl+N) on top of the default background layer. So this is how it looks like. Don't mind the 4th layer, just the first three. ^_^

3. On the toolbar, choose the "rounded rectangular tool". A small window will appear.. make the radius 20 px.

4. On the layers window, make the layer of your photo not visible by clicking on the eye. Click on the layer that you just created awhile ago (step #2). To make it standard, press D on the keyboard so that you will have black as your default color (well, the color doesn't matter anyway).. create something like this (let's call this the object layer).

5. Now, make the layer with the image/photo/picture visible. On that layer, hit the keys CTRL+ALT+G to make the picture "inside" the object layer.

6. Apply the Drop Shadow Settings on the object layer..

7. Erase the white background of the background layer (hehe) by using the Magic Eraser Tool.

8. Trim the image to save space. IMAGE >> TRIM. Save this file using the .png extension. DO NOT USE ANY OTHER EXTENSIONS such as .gif, .bmp or .jpg ...

9. Finale. Note: The drop shadow will work nicely in any background color. [Versions below IE 7 don't support this]