Eckhard M. Jäger

Gimp Colorize Plugin

Friday, 18. July 2008, 21:16:35

colors, plugin, grayscale, image, coloring, GIMP, colorize

After my last post about Gimp plugins that looking for fresh blood and new developers, i tried to compile the Gimp Colorize plugin - with success

Here is an overview about the algorythm "Colorization Using Optimization".

Download
Linux Binary gimp-colorize-20070930-i386

Installation
Install package "libsuitesparse-3.1.0" and copy the content of the archive into
~/.gimp-2.4/plug-ins

Usage
* open an grayscale image
"File > Open"
* change the color space into RGB with
"Image > Mode > RGB"
* create an new layer
"Layer > New Layer"
* use a small brush and paint some colored strokes on the new layer
* select the layer grayscale image layer
* start Colorize
"Colors > Colorization..."
* select at the dialog at the dropdown the layer
where you have painted the strokes
* press Ok

Rigg me!Scribus 1.3.5 SVN builds

Comments

Anonymous # 18. July 2008, 22:08

Williams writes:

Nice, I like it

Anonymous # 18. July 2008, 22:28

Gabe writes:

It's amazing. I don't know any such easy technique like this for Photoshop. GIMP Rocks! Thank You for sharing.

Anonymous # 18. July 2008, 22:30

Gabe writes:

...I hope someone take care of this project for future.

Anonymous # 18. July 2008, 23:18

Gabe writes:

Ooh and a little note for noobs (like me): For Ubuntu 8.04 people have to install "libsuitesparse-3.1.0" to get it work.

area42 # 19. July 2008, 10:04

Hi Gabe,

you are right i forget that "libsuitesparse-3.1.0" is required. Thanx for the hint, i updated the post.

Anonymous # 25. October 2008, 22:54

sergi writes:

Hi.

Due to try this plugin I installed the Linux (Mandriva). But I am beginer in linux and I must say, this plugin did'nt work. I think this is caused by missing of this library. Can anybody to help me how to force this plugin work?

area42 # 26. October 2008, 11:06

As i wrote you need package "libsuitesparse-3.1.0" and if you are using Gimp 2.6 your plugin directory is "~/.gimp-2.6/plug-ins"

Anonymous # 9. November 2008, 01:09

Nemes Ioan Sorin writes:

Just tested 'Colorize' again with GIMP 2.6.2 - work perfect and pretty quick on Ubuntu 8.10 as is now.

Imagine now some options for color tolerance and so ;)

area42 # 9. November 2008, 09:56

Tanks

I just compiled it.

Have you read about the settings available in Gimp 2.6.x:
http://my.opera.com/area42/blog/gimp-optimizations

Anonymous # 22. January 2009, 01:15

Anonymous writes:

This is really amazing and I can't wait to try it.
I use OpenSuSe 10.3 with package libumfpack5_2_0 installed and Gimp 2.4.6, but the colorization plug-in does not work here.

I get error message if trying to execute the plugin it self from console:
./colorize: error while loading shared libraries: libumfpack.so.3.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

FYI, the other plug-ins will returns: e.g. colorify plug-in
./colorify is a GIMP plug-in and must be run by GIMP to be used

Do you have any clue for this problem? Thanks!

area42 # 22. January 2009, 15:16

MAy check if you have a package installed called "libsuitesparse-3.1.0" as i desctibed

Anonymous # 2. March 2009, 16:33

Anonymous writes:

It would be nice if binary provided here was statically linked with suitesparse/etc so they won't be needed to use plugin anymore. This is because those packages aren't easy to build from source (they are hell to build from source - suitesparse requires blas/laplack and blas/laplack don't have autoconf support and picking "right" blas (ATLAS) is complicated).

I've made statically linked version of plugin (http://rapidshare.de/files/45771233/colorize.html), but it is optimized for my system (AMD Athlon X2 32bit linux) and won't work on plain i386.

Anonymous # 30. March 2009, 15:23

Luis writes:

Hi to all.
There is a Windows Binary of Colorize?

area42 # 30. March 2009, 17:55

@Luis,
maybe, sorry i'm using Ubuntu Linux.

Anonymous # 1. June 2009, 10:30

sergi writes:

I have installed Ubuntu 9.04 now. The plugin worked for a some time, but now, the plugin is not shown in "color" menu. I dont know, what I did. I have installed libsuitesparse 3.1 and 3.2, I have try to reinstall gimp and libsuitesparse, but no effect. I tryied copy plugin also to /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins - no effect. BTW using large image i.e. 1MB jpg program crashes.

Anonymous # 2. June 2009, 14:53

sergi writes:

I forgot to write, I am using Ubuntu 9.04

area42 # 3. June 2009, 20:43

Hello Sergi,

i checked it out and getting always a crash when i try to use this plugin. May i need to recompile it on Ubuntu 9.04 now with libsuitesparse 3.2.0.

Anonymous # 13. June 2009, 10:23

Sergi writes:

Hi, area42.
I am waiting for your recompiled plugin.

Anonymous # 20. June 2009, 07:59

Adam Law writes:

Tried to script-fu and apply a gradient sample colorize ... seems to be no facility for scriptfu-gradient colorize.

Great plugin despite this.

Thanks

Adam