Let's say you have multiple layers, and you want to drop shadow for all of them.
Here's a script that'll help with that.
Each layer will drop shadow on all layers below while making the appropriate cuts so that you're left with a single shadow layer that makes it look like all layers are casting shadows on each other at different depths.

same sample as above but this time i outlined the text.

To download, click here --> Multiple Shadows Script for GIMP

It's a py plug in, darn it. I use mainly script-fu scripts as most py scripts don't play nice with my macgimp.

Script-fu version is here.


To download, click here --> Multiple Shadows (scm) Script for GIMP

Can you add the ability to work with layer groups also?

Where's the word art script?
I want to use it to see what it generates before i attempt to play with groups since i have never done that before

Bytes and Pixels website is here. Lots of goodies waiting for you there.
http://www.bytes-and-pixels.com/

You want version 1.2 of the python filter
http://www.bytes-and-pixels.com/downloads/?did=13

I could just do a new from visible in the filter but i want to be able to adjust text and their shadows separately after running the shadow filter.

You can't move shadows around after the fact because my script creates shadow on top of shadows
like top layers would cast shadow to each layer below it creating illusion of different depths.
And it needs to make appropriate cuts using layers above the one that is being dropped shadow on and cuts out what isn't on the layer that is being casted on...
then very end it merges everything because it uses opacity at 100% then set opacity afterwards to users settings.
because I didn't want shadows to over lap each other and and with higher opacity at overlaps because it looks bad.
So you can't play with shadows once they're created.
Check out the examples it casts a different shadow that has different offset on each layer below it. if this final shadow layer is shifted/moved at all it would break.

I am having problems trying to work with layergroups.
layergroups is returned as layer and a drawable....
and the children are returned as ids which i don't know how add to my list of layers.
it's all very confusing to me right now.

I gotcha.

Just logged in to let you know how fantastic you are tin!!! I have thought something like this would be very useful for a long time but the thought kept dissolving in the stew that is my brain. Thank you!

Great!

Next time you think of something like it and think it's great, you HAVE GOT to share it with the world although explaining it might be a challenge...but share anyways so anyone who understands can try to script it and turn it into reality.

If anyone has this script please attach both the python and scm files here.
Thank you!

In menu:
Filters ➤ Light and Shadow ➤ Multiple Shadows...

there's this really cool feature in GIMP 3 called applying drop shadow on a layer group and putting content in it and making a blank layer below all the text layers if there is text clipping.

Thanks for adding the filters Wallace and MareroQ! Trying to keep up to date on where folks can find them. Many links for scripts are down. I do have most of the scripts and plugins from GimpScripts uploaded to Sourceforge in two large packages.
And thanks to Rich most from gimplearn as well. I have been going through the gimp scripts and plugins forums making sure any viable filter links are available, or they get attached to their threads. Thanks everyone for your help!

Contrast i will look into that.