What happened to Drop Shadow filter?

[Lubasha]

I used GIMP years ago very actively and was quite happy with that. But I don't understand the one it turned to be now. Icons became smaller, on a black background impossible to see anything without strong magnifier. But the main concern higher versions of GIMP became very uncomfortable to use. I was trying just to make a drop shadow on text and found it is not working. The help I found says 6.7.4. Using Drop Shadow Filter

This GEGL Drop Shadow filter is surprising: if you apply the filter directly to the image as you do with the legacy filter, you get nothing!

and I have to do from 9 to 19 steps to make it work! You guys, who create updates to this software, are going in wrong direction! 

I wish to donate for those creating GIMP I used to know, but today's one is so out of touch with people! Please, give me the old GIMP back!

[PixLab]

(07-23-2022, 01:00 AM)Lubasha Wrote: I used GIMP years ago very actively and was quite happy with that. But I don't understand the one it turned to be now. Icons became smaller, on a black background impossible to see anything without strong magnifier. But the main concern higher versions of GIMP became very uncomfortable to use. I was trying just to make a drop shadow on text and found it is not working. The help I found says 6.7.4. Using Drop Shadow Filter

This GEGL Drop Shadow filter is surprising: if you apply the filter directly to the image as you do with the legacy filter, you get nothing!

and I have to do from 9 to 19 steps to make it work! You guys, who create updates to this software, are going in wrong direction! 

I wish to donate for those creating GIMP I used to know, but today's one is so out of touch with people! Please, give me the old GIMP back!

Yeah... it is always the same thing with some in a bad mood, they come here to rant, they never thank when they get a solution, and they all think by blackmailing us to donate to GIMP it will work better (although we do know they will never do it and someone from this forum will always find a solution to their problem).
BTW, we are not the GIMP developer team, so you can "wish to donate" as long as you want, it has no meaning here.

Anyway, a possible solution...
If you are doing your drop shadow on a layer with the same size than the canvas/full image, it's not going to work
(on the legacy drop shadow, you have to tick the option "Allow resize" to work, if not it will put a layer of the same size of the image underneath, thus not showing shadows)

   

To work your image needs to be smaller than the "canvas/full image" ➤ Go to Image ➤ Canvas Size... and increase the size of the canvas (tip after increasing W&H hit that Center button before to click OK).
Then now you can see your dropped shadows

   

Once you've resized your image if you put a white layer underneath, you can even see better how your shadow looks like

   

[rich2005]

Quote:I don't understand the one it turned to be now. Icons became smaller, on a black background impossible to see anything without strong magnifier.

If using a 4k display/monitor the tool box icons are small, All you can do is dive into Edit -> Preferences -> Interface change the Icon Theme to maybe Color and bump the Icon Size to 'Huge'  https://i.imgur.com/PN7yFgF.jpg While there change the Theme from Dark to 'System' https://i.imgur.com/IGpgmST.jpg

Quote:... I was trying just to make a drop shadow on text ...snip...
This GEGL Drop Shadow filter is surprising: if you apply the filter directly to the image as you do with the legacy filter, you get nothing!

I do not really understand this comment. Maybe it is the background of the image or the case that PixLab indicated. The GEGL Drop Shadow adjusts to suit and you see the adjustment as it happens. It does reset to defaults when opened but there is last used values in the presets. The only snag with the GEGL filter is you lose the text layer. Make a copy if you want to keep it as text.

   

The legacy filter is still there, the top one in the screenshot. A bit of a guess until you apply it, but it does make a separate layer for the shadow.

Quote:Please, give me the old GIMP back!

Very easy for Windows users. Go to https://www.gimp.org/downloads/ where you find
Previous v2.8 installers for Windows can be found here: https://download.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.8/windows/