2.10. Effects
| 2. What's new in GIMP 2.10? |

### 2.10. Effects

GIMP now ships with over 80 GEGL-based filters. A lot of those are former GIMP effects. Here is why GEGL-based implementations are better:

- You can apply them on images in 32-bit per color channel precision mode.

- You can preview them right on the canvas, and if an image is larger than the viewport, GIMP will render the viewport first for immediate feedback.

- You can use split preview to compare original image with its processed version and swap before/after sides both horizontally and vertically.

- In a future non-destructive GIMP, you will be able to adjust settings of those filters without undoing a ton of steps.

Some of the GEGL-based filters have OpenCL version for hardware acceleration. This will come in handy, if OpenCL drivers work well for you. Furthermore many operations can come multi-threaded to use your processor at their full power.

Contributors: Michael Natterer, Øyvind Kolås, Thomas Manni…

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