I think that what you've done is fine up to a point.
When the drop-shadow is created, it's put onto it's own layer, so your image
now has two layers, BUT when you then set the drawable to the active layer:
(set! drawable (car (gimp-image-get-active-layer image)))
and save that layer ONLY:
(gimp
Hello .
Is it possible somehow to change image of the official mascot of GIMP in main
window of GIMP 2.6.11 for Window, on some other image. ( see picture :
https://picasaweb.google.com/tteamm/Youtube?authkey=Gv1sRgCP2_4fuDysKf1QE&feat=directlink
).
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