Re: [Gimp-developer] Changes in GIMP 2.10 - Filters etc.

[Akkana Peck <akkana shallowsky com>]

Gimp-Werkstatt writes:
> Whithin our tutorials, we do use the drop-shadow-filter quite a lot,
> especially within the scrap-workshops. There is still the old one there,
> but my guess is, that it will vanish sooner or later. The settings in
> the new drop-shadow are quite different but that's OK for us. I only
> wish, it would leave the shadow on an extra layer, like the old filter
> did, so that you can still work on the shadow with the transform-tools
> and change the opacity etc. Would that be a big change to the new
> drop-schaddow-filter? I have no idea of programming, but it would be
> really great to have this extra layer back.

+1. I use the new gegl ops for most things, and most of them are
big improvements over the old filters; but for drop shadows (which I
use a lot), I use the legacy version because I always want the
shadow on a separate layer.

        ...Akkana