Eckhard M. Jäger

easyGIMPkit

Thursday, 24. April 2008, 21:35:27

I wrote an article for the T3N issue 12 about GIMP and complex webdesign. Here you can find the easyGIMPkit. Basiclly that are configuration files (window behavior, space optimized theme and shortcuts simliar to Photoshop) and some additional scripts (layer effects, duplicating or Moving selections, paste as layer etc.).

Download the easyGIMPkit (german version) and copy all files into

/home/aeggy/.gimp-2.4

Windows user have to copy it to

C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\#YourProfileName\.gimp-2.4

To turn GIMP into a good graphic editor for web development you may install these plugins:
* Save for Web (Windows - Ubuntu Linux)
* UFRaw (Ubuntu Linux package "gimp-ufraw)
* Deskew (Windows and Ubuntu Linux)
* GREYCstoration (Windows and Ubuntu Linux)
* Liquid Rescale (Windows and Ubuntu Linux)

If you like to use GIMP for creating textures for 3D or realtime 3D content check out the article "Pimp the GIMP for 3D". If you can read/ understand german take a look at the german ubuntuusers board, icecold posted there a nice workflow using UFRaw, Gimp and Greycstoration. Visit my post about batch processing too.

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Comments

Anonymous # 16. June 2008, 17:20

JakeT writes:

cool. Is there an English version?

Eckhard M. Jäger # 17. June 2008, 12:34

Hi,

i think next week it will be available

Anonymous # 27. October 2008, 04:08

David Gowers writes:

When I saw 'image_layer_float.scm'
with its functions 'script-fu-dupli-selection-*' and 'script-fu-floating-selection-*', I wondered if you knew that AlT+SHIFT+Dragging with a selection tool drags a new layer that is a copy of the selected pixels (FWIW, CTRL+ALT+Dragging drags a layer that is cut out of the selected pixels)

(The many duplicate functions in that file, which seem to be identical except in name, are also puzzling.)

For future versions, it might be smart to leave pluginrc out, and probably also colorrc -- they are both automatically generated and not at all customizable.

Eckhard M. Jäger # 27. October 2008, 08:20

Hello David,

thanks for the feedback. I knew that you can copy selections via keys+dragging but for GUI- and webdesign it isn't a good and accurate workflow.

Thanks for the hints about pluginrc and colorrc i will keep it in mind for the update

Anonymous # 27. November 2009, 17:39

Anonymous writes:

When will English version be available? I appreciate your work. I think eventually serious web designers will be able to have more of a choice to consider FOSS thanks to efforts like yours.

Eckhard M. Jäger # 27. November 2009, 19:35

I'm still using GIMP 2.7 and a lot of my scripts have to optimitze for GIMP 2.8, so at the moment it isn't a good point translating something.