Curved Drop Shadows in Acorn
Link: 2009.01.07 11:01 PM
I was reading Cocoia Blog's iLife UI Roundup earlier today, and I noticed that Sebastiaan had put some neat little drop shadows on his images, along with a nice border to them. I had also seen a similar look in the latest iPhoto tour, where it had created a nice little polaroid border with curved drop shadows for the print products.
Of course, I want to be able to do that in Acorn. And so I wrote a Python script to achive the effect.
![before](http://flyingmeat.com/blog/images/ec64959b-d5d1-48ac-b575-232b96e2e7b7.png)
This is Stevie and Jimi before the effect.
![before](http://flyingmeat.com/blog/images/21c1bfa7-1888-4f97-b70c-0960a9c881c0.png)
And here they are after it is applied
Download the Curved Drop Shadow filter.
To install, unzip the archive, and then place CurvedDropShadow.py in your ~/Library/Application Support/Acorn/Plug-Ins/ folder and restart Acorn if it's already running. It'll show up in your Filters menu with the name "Create New Image with Curved Dropshadow".
Of course, I want to be able to do that in Acorn. And so I wrote a Python script to achive the effect.
![before](http://flyingmeat.com/blog/images/ec64959b-d5d1-48ac-b575-232b96e2e7b7.png)
This is Stevie and Jimi before the effect.
![before](http://flyingmeat.com/blog/images/21c1bfa7-1888-4f97-b70c-0960a9c881c0.png)
And here they are after it is applied
Download the Curved Drop Shadow filter.
To install, unzip the archive, and then place CurvedDropShadow.py in your ~/Library/Application Support/Acorn/Plug-Ins/ folder and restart Acorn if it's already running. It'll show up in your Filters menu with the name "Create New Image with Curved Dropshadow".