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Gimp Colorize Plugin

Friday, July 18, 2008 9:16:35 PM

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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

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Comments

Unregistered user Friday, July 18, 2008 10:08:48 PM

Williams writes: Nice, I like it

Unregistered user Friday, July 18, 2008 10:28:59 PM

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

Unregistered user Friday, July 18, 2008 10:30:58 PM

Gabe writes: ...I hope someone take care of this project for future.

Unregistered user Friday, July 18, 2008 11:18:56 PM

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.

Eckhard M. Jägerarea42 Saturday, July 19, 2008 10:04:04 AM

Hi Gabe,

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

Unregistered user Saturday, October 25, 2008 10:54:24 PM

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?

Eckhard M. Jägerarea42 Sunday, October 26, 2008 11:06:53 AM

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"

Unregistered user Sunday, November 9, 2008 1:09:47 AM

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 ;)

Eckhard M. Jägerarea42 Sunday, November 9, 2008 9:56:17 AM

Tanks smile I just compiled it.

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

Unregistered user Thursday, January 22, 2009 1:15:09 AM

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!

Eckhard M. Jägerarea42 Thursday, January 22, 2009 3:16:37 PM

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

Unregistered user Monday, March 2, 2009 4:33:38 PM

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.

Unregistered user Monday, March 30, 2009 3:23:56 PM

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

Eckhard M. Jägerarea42 Monday, March 30, 2009 5:55:17 PM

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

Unregistered user Monday, June 1, 2009 10:30:32 AM

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.

Unregistered user Tuesday, June 2, 2009 2:53:48 PM

sergi writes: I forgot to write, I am using Ubuntu 9.04

Eckhard M. Jägerarea42 Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:43:54 PM

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.

Unregistered user Saturday, June 13, 2009 10:23:00 AM

Sergi writes: Hi, area42. I am waiting for your recompiled plugin.

Unregistered user Saturday, June 20, 2009 7:59:01 AM

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

Unregistered user Saturday, September 26, 2009 9:57:57 PM

JournalXtra.com writes: I've yet to succeed converting a B&W to colour, I get close...not close enough, but I've used it to create some fantastic effects to already colour images. Thank for this plugin Dion de Ville

Eckhard M. Jägerarea42 Sunday, September 27, 2009 5:38:59 PM

smile

Unregistered user Tuesday, October 13, 2009 12:54:30 PM

Анонимен writes: Hi I managed to compile the plugin for windows

Unregistered user Wednesday, October 21, 2009 9:56:36 AM

Nemes Ioan Sorin writes: Anonimous - will you share this win32 binary or will how you compiled this plugin ? I mean linked libraries and all stuff ..

Unregistered user Saturday, April 10, 2010 12:16:46 PM

Anonymous writes: @Анонимен You compiled it for Windows? Can you please share it with me? Or at least how to compile it to Windows?

Eckhard M. Jägerarea42 Saturday, April 10, 2010 4:54:35 PM

Sorry i don't have/ support Windows anymore. Switch to Linux smile

Unregistered user Friday, April 29, 2011 12:31:48 PM

Anonyme writes: Windows binaries Gimp 32 bits : http://www.box.net/shared/jme52y9pab Gimp 64 bits : http://aljacom.com/~gimp/colorize-gimp-20070930-64bits.zip

Unregistered user Saturday, August 6, 2011 11:03:15 AM

Phil writes: Brilliant - so deceptively simple but brilliant. I love your work

Unregistered user Friday, November 18, 2011 9:58:02 PM

Anonymous writes: Got the following error when tried with 'make'. Installed libsparcesuite-dev in Ubuntu lucid with GIMP-2.6.11. Any hints? $ make gcc -g -Wall -O3 `gimptool-2.0 --cflags` -I/usr/include/suitesparse -I/usr/include/umfpack -c -o colorize.o colorize.c /bin/sh: gimptool-2.0: not found colorize.c:7:21: error: gtk/gtk.h: No such file or directory colorize.c:10:26: error: libgimp/gimp.h: No such file or directory colorize.c:11:28: error: libgimp/gimpui.h: No such file or directory In file included from colorize.c:15: colorize.h:5: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘gint32’ colorize.h:15: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token colorize.c:25: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘r’ colorize.c:40: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘y’ colorize.c:90: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token make: *** [colorize.o] Error 1

Unregistered user Saturday, November 19, 2011 8:34:54 AM

Anonymous writes: In pursuant to http://my.opera.com/area42/blog/show.dml/2360820#comment75075712, I tried to install libgimp2.0-dev, which stopped with dependency problem of libgtk2.0-dev which further halted with libpango and a lot of dependency hell. The situation is almost like discussed in this thread: http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=7361.0;wap2 :-( Is it possible to have the colorize plugin in ubuntu 10.04 lucid with gimp-2.6.11 in a 64bit machine? Your inputs could be very invaluable.

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