Re: New Maps API blog post

Wasn't it Paul who wrote:
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>On that subject, does anyone have a tutorial for making a 45 degree shadow,
>preferably using the Gimp? At the moment I just stick the wrong shadow on there!

I don't know the Gimp, but in PSP I do this:

take a copy of the marker
change all the opaque points to black
reduce the opacity to about 50%
skew the image by 45 degrees
add some blur

http://www.econym.demon.co.uk/googlemaps/custom.htm

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