Anyone used to working with Adobe Photoshop will know that inner text shadow is easily applied through the use of layer styles, but GIMP doesn't offer a comparable feature. To add inner shadow to text in GIMP, you need to carry out a few distinct steps and this may seem a little complex to less advanced users.
However the process is relatively straight forward, so even new users of GIMP should have little difficulty following this tutorial. As well as achieving the overall goal of teaching you to add inner text shadow, in so doing you will also be introduced to using layers, layer masks and applying blur, one of the many default filter effects that ship with GIMP.
If you've got a copy of GIMP installed, then you can get started with the tutorial on the next page. If you don't have GIMP, you can read more about the free image editor in Sue's review, including a link to download your own copy.
