Selection glow - Inner/outer glow

dd · **Joined:** Apr 10, 2011 **Posts:** 532

Willy wrote:

I am saying for Animation, I know there is APNG, but they said it isn't supported by many browsers.
So could there be like a LGIF to replace APNG and just be formated like GIF, but with more Colors and less Compresion

The problem is, GIF format only supports 8-bit colours. If you change the format to support 24-bit colour (or 32 bit, with alpha) then it's not the same format anymore... and the browsers would still have to implement support for it separately. So it would in essence be the same as APNG. Kinda like re-inventing the wheel, you know?

mahvin · **Joined:** Oct 06, 2010 **Posts:** 4050

Which is why ALL browsers need to start allowing the APNG format. Including Chrome!

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16174

We can dream.

Willy · **Posted:** Mon May 02, 2011 4:57 pm **(#24)**

dd wrote:

Willy wrote:

I am saying for Animation, I know there is APNG, but they said it isn't supported by many browsers.
So could there be like a LGIF to replace APNG and just be formated like GIF, but with more Colors and less Compresion

The problem is, GIF format only supports 8-bit colours. If you change the format to support 24-bit colour (or 32 bit, with alpha) then it's not the same format anymore... and the browsers would still have to implement support for it separately. So it would in essence be the same as APNG. Kinda like re-inventing the wheel, you know?

Now I understand thanks dd

max4o · **Joined:** Oct 22, 2011 **Posts:** 1

Hi guys, sorry for this .. but I put the .py file in the selected plug-ins directory .. and I just don't know how to use this, but I need this glow effect

Oregonian · **Posted:** Sat Oct 22, 2011 7:32 pm **(#26)**

max4o wrote:

Hi guys, sorry for this .. but I put the .py file in the selected plug-ins directory .. and I just don't know how to use this, but I need this glow effect

First, you must have python installed. You put the .py plug-in into your gimp > plug-ins folder.

Right-click the layer the image is on that you want to apply the glow plug-in to, select Alpha to Selection.

Then, File > Create > dd > Glow and experiment with the dialog that opens.

This is a very fast explanation; feel free to ask more questions.

Draconian · **Posted:** Sun Oct 23, 2011 7:47 am **(#27)**

Thanks dd. I have the same issues with Layer Effects, particularly the Inner/Outer Shadows. You've solved the Glow issues but I thin the shadows also need a way to blur or feather or both. Who did Layer Effects anyway? maybe they can be coerced into a rewrite.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16174

You can do some real neat things with this script for sure.

Bevel added

dd · **Joined:** Apr 10, 2011 **Posts:** 532

I'm planning on rewriting this script so that it can do both glows and drop shadows (since they are pretty much the same effect, only with/without offset).

(when I have time... :p )

mahvin · **Joined:** Oct 06, 2010 **Posts:** 4050

Can't wait, dd. I'd love to be able to get the inner glow to work perfectly with a water look as shown in recent tutorials.