LR3 - drop shadows?

Hi all,

I'm looking to add a simple drop shadow around my image for export to flickr, something I thought would be simple, but oddly I cannot find it.

I know LR/Mogrify 2 can do all sorts as I use it, however it seems to be missing from that too.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

John

In case you're wondering about the general effect its something like this (but without the rounded corners)

Okay, I got it cracked.

I got a reply from the author (very quickly initially) and he said he didn't think it could be done, he is right but that is because to make a drop shadow you need to use the +clone option which is only available in the convert command of ImageMagick, but sadly not in mogrify (I'm not sure why he used mogrify over convert as I think its just a cut down version but otherwise appears the same)

Anyway the way I got it working is via another plugin which has broader scope if you;re willing to do a little work yourself, and the great thing is as a plugin it works with LR/Mogrify as well.

The plugin is "Jeffrey’s “Run Any Command” Lightroom Export Plugin" and is very simple, just slap a command in and it will run it.

Here is the command I used:

Simply broken down it runs convert from ImageMagick passes the {FILE} (that is the full file and its location - lightroom makes a temp file for upload), adds a thin black border, adds a percent based white one, clones the image and makes it a drop shadow, swaps the images so that the original is on top and merges then back together.

Well that the way I think it works!

One thats done I applied a 4% white border and text using the LR/Mogrify plugin.

All in all you get something like this:

HTTP response: NOT FOUND | MIME changed to 'image/gif' | Redirected to error image by FLICKR

You can do it without the plugin by using the Slideshow module's "Export Jpg Slideshow" option.

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Thats good to know, but I'm wanting to upload directly to flckr without the extra step, which I believe you would have to do if you export to jpg first.

Thanks for the tip though.