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a blog by Eckhard M. Jäger

Posts tagged with "GIMP"

Image Utilities for Ubuntu Linux

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Over GetDeb.net i explored various interesting image utilies (most of them i'd like to see as a GIMP plugin):

Seam Carving GUI
...a utility for content aware image resizing very simliar to the Liquid Rescale plugin for GIMP (inluded in the package GIMP-plugin-registry). Seam Carving GUI is available for MacOS X and Windows too.

Tintii
...is a coloring utility - available for Photoshop too but not for GIMP :frown:

Smilla Enlarger
...raster image enlarger that uses smart curves algorithms to avoid pixelization and blurring artifacts. Smilla Enlarger is available for MacOS X and Windows too.

GIMP 2.8 going for a single Window Solution

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There is a lot of discussion this time about a real single-window GIMP at the development list. Peter Sikking which is one of the heads behind GUI improvements of GIMP created a nice proposal which includes anything i dreamed of! Real good work Peter!

Gimp 2.8 first release

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The first development snapshot of Gimp 2.8 is available: Gimp 2.7.0. There are a lot of nice, new upcoming features:
* a reworked, much more flexible text tool
* new saving/ export option
* export plugin for X11 mouse cursors and JPEG2000 file format
* rotation of brushes and additional enhancements to the brush dynamics engine
* tagging for resources
...and much more.
Check out the release notes too.

But there are much more interesting things we can await in Gimp 2.8:
* Finish merging of the GSoC 2006 vector layer stuff
* Merge the GSoC 2009 projects for brush dynamics and improved SIOX.
* Add a better set of default resoures
* Provide default tags for the default resources

Gimp 2.6.7 update

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I mentioned the upcoming Gimp 2.6.7 in my post about Gegl 0.1.0. Now it is available with a lot of bug fixes and updated translations too. All details about this update can be found at the release log. Deb packages for Ubuntu are available at GetDeb.net

Getting famous with GIMP :)

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Ok, i'm getting not really famous but as i read my CMYK Tiff 2 PDF for Gimp script is now in Debian SID and Ubuntu Karmic. That means many, many, many people can enjoy my work :smile:
BTW : You can enjoy that and a lot of other stuff now too, just download the liblqr-1-0_0.4.1-1_i386.deb and the gimp-plugin-registry_2.1-1_i386.deb package and install them. This will update the packages of Jaunty.

GEGL 0.1.0 and Gimp 2.6.7

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The Generic Graphics Library GEGL is now available as version 0.1.0. All changes of GEGL can be found at the release post. GEGL is part of the core libraries of the image editor Gimp too.
A important hint of the developers is that GEGL 0.1.0 didn't work with Gimp 2.6.6, as they wrote "This is not because GEGL would be incompatible, but rather because of a stupid bug in the run-time version check.". So we all have to wait for Gimp 2.6.7 which will ship with some other bugfixes too :smile:

Gloobus - a nice, handy previewer

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Surfing around at Planet Gnome brings me to Gloobus, a nice and handy preview addon inspired by the preview of Mac OS X and Coverflow. For me the most interesting part is the Coverflow effect integration into Nautilus.
The bad news is that witout rebuilding Nautilus only the normal Gloobus 0.4 is available as a Deb archive. A really nice goody is that is install GTK PixBuf Loader for support of Photoshop PSD and GIMP XCF files to the entire Gnome desktop. So any Gnome graphics viewer (like EOG, F-Spot or gThumb) can preview these formats too.

If you like these features don't forget to support the project by a donation!

Gimp XCF Thumbnails in Gnome Nautilus

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As i wrote in my post about my new Dell Studio 17 and Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 i've lost the possibility to get thumbnails Photoshop PSD files in Nautilus.
But now i discovered how to get thumbnails of GIMP XCF files :smile: Just install the packages "xcftools" and "gnome-xcf-thumbnailer". It seems there is a bug in the package "gnome-scf-thumbnailer" because the dependency about the packages "xcftools" is missing.

Google Summer of Code - GSOC 2009

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Again a the Google Summer of Code is started. Here is an overview of interesting and accepted graphic applications, web development apps and multimedia tools:
* Aqsis Renderer http://wiki.aqsis.org/dev/soc_2009
* Audacity http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=GSoC_Ideas
* Blender http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/GSoC/2009/Ideas
* FFmpeg http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=FFmpeg_Summer_Of_Code_2009
* GIMP http://wiki.gimp.org/gimp/SummerOfCode2009ideas
* Gnome Desktop http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2009/Ideas
* Hugin/ Panotools http://wiki.panotools.org/SoC_2009_idea
* Inkscape http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Googles_Summer_Of_Code_2009
* OSM http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GSoC_Applications_2009
* Python http://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode/2009
* Scribus http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/GSoC_2009_Ideas
* TYPO3 CMS http://typo3.org/development/gsoc2009/ideas/

Hopefully a lot of ideas become reality and all these projects will get a lot of new, strong, powerful developers!

Flash SWF Export for GIMP with Animation Support

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I updated my Flash SWF Export for GIMP again. This time i added animation support. Any layer of an GIMP image will be exported as a frame of an Flash SWF animation (not a Flash Video FLV).
Later i will add support for Windows too.

» Read more...

Cool Screens - easy made

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You'd like to have cool looking screenshots without spending hours in creating them? Then you have to try Screenie. A realy nice tool for compositing multiple screenshots in a very easy way. On Ubuntu just install the package "screenie-qt".
If you are a GIMP lover then check out the 3D Screenshot script.

Gimp Flash SWF Exporter Update

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I updated my Flash SWF Export for GIMP. Now it can generate the XHTML page where the exported flash is embeded.

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Flash SWF Export for GIMP

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For image conversion and an easy way keeping the content of our lastest Flash project up to date i wrote today an Flash SWF Export Script for Gimp.

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CMYK Tiff 2 PDF for Gimp update

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After using my CMYK Tiff 2 PDF for Gimp in real life by creating the prepress PDF of the german Ubuntu flyer and the chance to get it bundled in the Debian package "gimp-plugin-registry" i updated it again and fixed some bugs:
* added license information about GPLV2
* now compression modi "Zip" and "JPEG 95%" are working
* a creator sign "GIMP CMYK Tiff 2 PDF" in the meta informations of the PDF document will be added

» Read more...

Gimp 2.6.6 update

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And another update to make GIMP 2.6 series fast and stable. All details about this update can be found at the release log. Get your Deb packages for Ubuntu at GetDeb.net - this time for Hardy too :smile:

Gimp XCF support for Gnome

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Once i was very happy getting a message from Jan Dudek about his PSD PixBuf loader for Photoshop PSD files for the Gnome Linux Desktop. It makes it possible viewing such files with any Gnome application supporting PixBuf loaders.
Now i'm very happy again because Stephane Delcroix did the same for Gimp XCF files. So Nautilus, gThumb, F-Spot, EOG etc. can display the open standard and the industrie standard for layered image documents :smile:
The bad thing is i didn't get it running at the moment. May someone can create a Deb package for it :wink:.

Phatch - Photo Batch Processor 0.1.6 Download

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I know Phatch a photo batch processor 0.1.6 is not a real fresh release. But i found the Deb archives for various version of Ubuntu at Launchpad. The download links at the homepage are still broken.

Liquid Rescale 0.6.0/ Liquid Rescale Library 0.3.0

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The Liquid Rescale plugin for Gimp is updated to version 0.6 and its backend the Liquid Rescale Library is available as version 0.3.0. Liquid Rescale is a implementation of Seam Carving for Gimp.
Watch this video about Seam Carving:

Gimp 2.6.5 update

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Again another update to make GIMP fast and stable. Deb packages for Ubuntu can be found at GetDeb.net.

Filters, Filters, Filters

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For those that can't get enough filters for GIMP should check out G'MIC Toolbox, a GIMP plug-in which defines a set of various filters, including artistic filters, image denoising and enhancement, 3D renderers, etc.
A Deb package for Ubuntu is available too.