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Start with opening
your image.
 Figure 1
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Push down the
Ctrl-button and left-click the image layer to select your image.
Now go to Selection - Modify - Expand - 2 pixels. (For larger images
you'll need to insert 3-4 pixels).
Create a new layer - call it white shadow - and place it beneath your
image layer.
Select White as your foreground colour and flood fill your selection (choose
the Paintbucket and select foreground in the options window on the top
right side of your screen).
Your image should now look like fig. 2.
Figure 2
Keep your selection and create a
new layer over the white shadow layer and beneath the image layer and call
it black shadow.
Select black as your foreground colour and flood fill your selection.
Now deselect (Ctrl - D).
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Still at the black
shadow layer choose Filter - Blur - Gaussian Blur and insert 1,5 - 2
pixels.
I used 1,9 pixels. Click ok.
Activate the white shadow layer and
repeat the Gaussian Blur effect - fig. 3.
 Figure 3
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Now we have to move the two shadow layers a
little bit to get the wanted effect.
Still at the White shadow layer select the Move Tool ( see fig. 4).
Now we have to move the white shadow layer one pixel down and one pixel to
the left (for larger images move 2-3 pixels....). Use the arrowkeys on
your keyboard to move the layer. (One touch at the down-arrow = one pixel
down etc.).
Now select the black shadow layer. Now move this layer one pixel up and
one pixel to the right.
Figure
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Finished !
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