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robaho / seashore

easy to use mac osx image editing application for the rest of us
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Add drop shadow effect #206

Open victor-marino opened 8 months ago

victor-marino commented 8 months ago

As far as I can see, there's no way to add a shadow effect to selections/layers in Seashore.

This could come in handy in multiple situations. E.g.: Making a text layer more readable and aesthetically pleasing when placed on top of a multi-colored background.

Would this be make sense as a feature?

robaho commented 2 months ago

I think this is an interesting request. The underlying format doesn't allow "layer effects" - at least not how it is implemented - so the best I could do would be to add an effect - "add shadow" that converts the layer to bitmap (if text) then creates a shadow.

Normally I think this is handled by adding a shadow layer, e.g. an draw an ellipse in "gray", and place that layer under the text (or other layer) that you want to highlight.