152 CHAPTER 4 (Fedora web server) DRAWING To make a
152 CHAPTER 4 DRAWING To make a shadow on the trunk, turn off visibility on all the branch and leaf layers so you can see what you re doing. Select the trunk layer and duplicate it to create a new shadow layer called trunk shadow, just above the trunk layer but below the branches. Make this layer semitransparent: try starting at about 35% opacity. You can adjust this later. Select the Paintbrush tool (if it isn t already selected), a medium-sized fuzzy brush, and a dark foreground color. You can use black, but using a different dark color can give your shadow depth, as though it s reflecting light from objects nearby. You re going to draw a dark shadow line up the right side of the tree. But first, a tip: you can make sure the shadow doesn t spill off the side of the tree by using the Keep transparency toggle button in the Layers dialog. With Keep transparency checked, draw a line up the side of the tree trunk (Figure 4-32). Keep the center of the fuzzy brush about at the edge of the trunk you want it to be blackest at the right edge of the tree trunk, and fade away toward the middle. It s okay that the big fuzzy brush hangs off the edge of the trunk; the Keep transparency option will prevent any overhang. You can add shadows to your leaves, too. Since they re too small and numerous for you to draw all the individual leaf shadows like you did with the trunk, you can take a shortcut: make a drop shadow of the leaf layer or layers, using small values for offset and blur radius. Figure 4-32. Drawing the shadow
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