[Gimp-developer] Is there any thought of layer blending in the future?

[Raphaël Quinet]

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:42:28 -0500, Jim Sabatke <jsabatke at gmail.com> wrote:
> There is an excellent tutorial on using PS to do this at:
> 
> http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/glow.shtml
> 
> This would be VERY useful in gimp.  Has here been any consideration of 
> this functionality?

If you are looking for a quick soft glow effect, you can use
Filters -> Artistic -> Soft glow (in GIMP 2.3.x).

But if you want to follow the tutorial step-by-step and if you
really want something like adjustment layers, then you should
look at this bug report:
  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79025

-Raphaël