Shadow

This is one of the coolest WebFX effects. I have some people registered to WebFX just to use this great effect.

Shadow allows you to add shadows to your pictures.
Of course, to obtain a better result, you should prepare your pictures with great attention and care, following these notes:

• Shadow effect will use the colour 0 as the background.
  Prepare your picture and save it in Color-Mapped format (ie. not 24 Bit format), so you can have full control of the palette and set the right color for transparency.
• Shadow effect will map all colour 0 on all the picture.
  Keep this in mind and check that no color 0 is inside the picture where you don't want it. For example, suppose you set the color 0 to bright white (R: 255, G:255, B:255) and your picture has another with around, please Double Check your pictures before applying this effect.
• Shadow effect creates white backgrounds.
  At the moment, Shadow effect will generate shadows on white backgrounds only. I am working on a better solution, but it is not a priority on my works.
• Shadow effect is slow.
  It is better to test pics with the Preview gadget before converting them with the Shadow effect to save time.

• First of all, you have to Drag & Drop the pictures inside the ListView at the top of the Window. If you don't like Drag & Drop you can always use the Add gadget which will open an usual File Requester.
• Then you have to specify the Destination Directory where the new pictures will be saved. The new pics will have the same name of the original file, with the appropriate extension added in the tail.

  WARNING: no overwrite check is done before saving!

  As usual, you can always Drag & Drop an existing directory or device, which will be used as destination dir.

• Using the Shadow cycle gadget you can set the direction that the shadow will take.
• Use the Sliders to set shadow brightness and distance from the original picture. Usually, set X and Y inside a range between 5 and 10 for optimal results.
• As usual, set the final Width and Height and Depth of the final pictures and press Execute!.

Do you want an example of the Shadow effect?
Well, every picture in these documents has been shadowed using the Shadow effect :-).