Inner Glow coming from inside rather than edge? (Feature Suggestion)

[audacenoire]

Would it be possible to have an option where the Inner Glow comes from the center of the selection, rather than the edge?

[LinuxBeaver]

yes it is 100% possible, but not with my Inner Glow plugin. I'd have to make a new dedicated plugin of its own to do that.

Back in August 2022 I did a study of this very effect blended with linear light, on my Bevel and Extrusion filter. Here is a preview of it. I don't know why but I called it "middle glow" and that is what I will refer to it until I think of a better name..

image of August 2022 Study

The reason I never made a middle glow plugin is because it only takes three steps in Gimp. Median Blur, color overlay, and Gaussian Blur. That's it. Where as my Inner Glow takes over a dozen steps and a GEGL composer which is impossible to re-create just by running many filters in Gimp. Middle Glow was deemed too simple to make a plugin out of.

If you want to test a middle glow effect in Gimp now open the GEGL Graph filter and run this syntax on textured text and select a blend mode other then "replace"

Middle Glow Effect
median-blur alpha-percentile=1 radius=15 color-overlay value=#ffffff gaussian-blur std-dev-x=8 std-dev-y=8

Now to get the the question about adding it in GEGL Effects. That sounds like a great idea. I know how to do it and maybe it will happen in a few weeks from now. ;D

[LinuxBeaver]

This feature was just implemented and will be in the next update. It will be released in a few days on Inner Glow only. (Not GEGL Effects)

[LinuxBeaver]

You can test the update now by downloading this code and binaries.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1072485707664326691/1176355122775855135/source_code_and_binaries_of_new_inner_glow.zip?ex=656e9114&is=655c1c14&hm=dbfa65b9b82c682a828e4f222c10d2adb717b1fedd8650466109cdabea585e3d&