I am thinking of making a plugin that does outer glow to inner glow transitions depending on rather a invert checkbox is pressed. The GEGL syntax used to create it is here




Invert set to false (inner glow)



Invert set to true (outline, shadow glow)



Plugin is expected to be used with GIMP blend modes (Blending Options). Try pasting the syntax in GEGL graph and changing the invert checkbox and dropshadow values to see how it functions.

I just found an alternative method to make an inner glow and inverted inner glow

Here is what is going on

id=1 is the bookmark of the original text that will be used as a mask for a blend mode later

Gaussian Blur is the blur radius of the inner glow

Translate is the movability X and Y of inner glow. The same thing as the X and Y that moves drop shadow.

Color Overlay is the color of the Inner Glow

Opacity is the hyper opacity of the inner glow that goes above 100%

src-out/src-in are GEGL exclusive blend modes that erase content outside a input mask which in this case is the text. So imagine a text mask knocking out the red gaussian blur puff outside. Src-out does exactly that, and src-in does that but with inverted transparency. ref=1 is the bookmark of the original text being called

Inner Glow





Inverted Inner Glow







I am discussing technical ways to revamp and perfect my existing plugins and others have yet to begin making a GEGL plugin