I figured out a way to do the shadows without using the shadow filter in GIMP!
I was just thinking about the shadows I see in other mods, and staring at the shadow of my little people while playing my game on my MacBook during my lunch, and I suddenly got a new idea to try to do the shadows for my throw pillows. I just tried it out...and it worked to my perfectionistic satisfaction (is that a real word?)!! Hurray!!
So when I get home I'll do the shadows for my mound of pillows, even if it means doing the pillows all over again once more, add the walnut trim on a part of the bottom of the wall that I forgot to put it on last night, and unless there's something else that needs to be done that someone else can think of, I'll then be able to post the room and the bed upgrade in the Mods section!!! (I'm just a
little bit happy about this, but you probably couldn't tell...)
I just have one more question (for now...): How do you make a thumbnail for the Mods directory (sorry for the need for yet another piece of advice)? Do I just cut out a part of the room and use that cut-out piece as the directory preview/thumbnail?