I'm not sure what you mean by inverse feather. Why would you want to do that? You can give the effect of feathering in any direction with the wise placement of shapes.

Resizing shadows can already be done.

(1) Apply shadow to object.
(2) Convert to Editable Shape
(3) Ungroup

The shadow and the original object are now separate shapes. You can resize, apply a different fill or whatever to the shadow now.


On changing the center of a gradient, Xara Xtreme already does that, not sure about the LX version. Just grab any of the handles and move them where you want. You can even right click on end selection nodes and change the fill blend colors.