Hello people,

I do the following:

1) A solid background, 2) A text of 5 lines, which is generated on a new layer 3) I move the text around a bit to align it, using the move tool,

With the text layer selected, I use tha drop-shadow, hoping to create a shadow of the text, but instead, the shadow layer appears _before_ the selected text layer, and the background layer gets displaced to the right and below.

No shadow is visible. If I do the drop shados before 3), then the shadow is rendered correctly.

Am I doing something wrong here? I installed 2.4.5 to be sure the problem wasn't in 2.4.4 only.

I think you are probably doing something wron.

Open the layers dialogue so you see what is going on.

Make a new transparent layer

Make your text

Move it around

Merge down to the new transparent layer

Drop shadow it

Owen

Quoting John Coppens :

Hello people,

I do the following:

1) A solid background, 2) A text of 5 lines, which is generated on a new layer 3) I move the text around a bit to align it, using the move tool,

With the text layer selected, I use tha drop-shadow, hoping to create a shadow of the text, but instead, the shadow layer appears _before_ the selected text layer, and the background layer gets displaced to the right and below.

No shadow is visible. If I do the drop shados before 3), then the shadow is rendered correctly.

Since the shadow layer is created above the text layer, I am guessing you performed an "Alpha to Selection" at some point in your process. The shadow will be based on the selection and not the text itself.

If necessary, the image will be enlarged to account for the shadow if the "Allow resizing" box is checked. This will shift the layers on the image, but they should maintain their positions relative to each other.

It would probably be helpful if you could provide a more precise description of your actions.