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Linux for Designers

a blog by Eckhard M. Jäger

Posts tagged with "plugin"

Gimp Layer Effects with preview

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Jon Stipe has rewritten his Layer Effects skript in python. Besides more features it gets a much better interface then the normal Script-Fu version and supports now a preview mode (awesome work!). You will find it at the menu "<Image>/Layer/Layer Effects/" and at the context menu of the layers. Check it out it's awesome! I will include this soon in my easyGIMPkit.

Gimp Flash Gallery

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I found this in my inbox (it seems it is there a little bit longer): "Hi, you have my permission to include the SimpleViewer SWF in your plugin." -this means we will have Flash gallery bling soon in Gimp :smile:
So development can start now - thanx Felix!

Gimp Colorize Plugin

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Gimp plugin developers wanted

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For the very cool Gimp Colorize Plugin Christopher Lais is looking for a new maintainer. Don't let this die.
The same is about the quite good GREYCstoration plugin, volunteers wanted to improve the code of the current GIMP plug-in and implement features of the commandline version.
The third is the JPG2000 plugin, since the GSoC project nothing happens and nobody has seen this working in Gimp on Linux.
So new developers are needed to improve existing plugins and move them to Gimp 2.4 and later to 2.6.
Anybody reading this could help finding the new maintainers and developers.
Post this on your blog and your related boards! If one of your friends could do this ask him!

Gimp DDS plugin 2.0.6

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I wrote some months ago an article "Pimp the Gimp for 3D" and described the problems getting all nesaccery plugins for 3D into Gimp. Many problems could be solved by unpack RPM's, but most times you have to use older versions. The same with the DDS plugin, i have to use 1.0.1 while 2.0.6 is up-to-date. But today found an up-to-date gimp-dds_2.0.6-1_i386.deb package - what a surprise!
For those using Ubuntu Hardy the Normal Map plugin for Gimp is included, just install package "gimp-plugin-registry" or package "gimp-normalmap".

gEdit External Tools Plugin Snippets Collection

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I started to maintain the External Tools Plugin Snippets Collection of gEdit at the Gnome Wiki. I added my first four snippets and more will come in the next days.

Happy coding!

UPDATE:
Now 14 snippets for external tools waiting for you :smile:
Enjoy the new powerup!

2nd Flash Player 10 Beta

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Adobe released a second beta of the Flash Player 10. This version brings a lot of improvements to the Linux platform:
* optimized sound sound API and sound buffer
* windowless overlay mode now working (Firefox 3 required)
* new embedding modes (explained by the developer Tinic Uro)
* support for the Video4Linux 2
Older details about Flash Player 10 can be found in my older post or at the release notes. And of course the beta 2 is available for Linux too.
Download it and copy the binaries as root to "/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree". Shutdown your browswer and restart it, open the url "about:plugins" to make sure it's available.

Gimp2CSS

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At the Plugin Registry of Gimp an oldy appeared: Gimp2CSS. This is an refreshed Perl script (install libgimp-perl first) that allows to export the layer data and image as HTML and CSS.
That script didn't work perfect and produces HTML/ CSS code that isn't up-to-date. So i started a more feature rich rewrite in Python called CSSdev which will be available soon.

GREYCstoration 2.9 plugin for Gimp

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GREYCstoration is a Gimp plugin for image denoising and interpolation, using state-of-the-art image processing techniques. It offers really cool, denoised and sharp results of noisy and artifacted images (check out the demo images).
Just download the 2.9 zip archive from the website and copy the "GREYCstoration_gimp_pc_linux" file into "~/.gimp-2.4/plug-ins/". The filter can be found at the Gimp Image Window in "Filter > Enhance > GREYCstoration".

Prerelease of Flash Player 10

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Adobe released today a first beta of the Flash Player 10. This version brings a lot more hardware acceleration to Flash and makes it more, more powerfull. Now raster images, video overlays and effects will be rendered with OpenGL 2.0 directly on the graphics board.
With the new Pixel Bender language it will be easy for designers to create own effects too. Best of all this beta is released for Linux too.
Download it and copy the binaries as root to "/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree". Shutdown your browswer and restart it, open the url "about:plugins" to make sure it's available.

Updated gEdit "Browser Preview" plugin

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I updated my gEdit "Browser Preview" plugin, some bug fixes and feature enhancements:
* the plugin now checks first if IEs4Linux is installed, if not it tries to start the Internet Explorer 6 from the default Wine directory
* for testing webpages on the Webkit browser engine the plugin checks if Midori is installed if not it tries to run Konquerer
* if you opened a HTML document from a FTP server the "ftp://" will replaced by "http://" in the browser

Read more...

Gimp "Save for Web" plugin 0.28.4

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A month ago Aurimas Juska has updated his nice "Save for Web" plugin for GIMP up to 0.28.4. This web export is simliar to Photoshop's "Save for Web" and allow you to export graphics into the popular image formats Gif, JPEG and PNG. The exporter dialog gives you a visual feedback and includes functions for croping and resizing.
I couldn't try it out it was just available as sources and Windows binaries. Now i found at a Ubuntu board a Ubuntu deb archive of 0.28.4 of this version which looks sweet and runs well :smile:
I updated my article "Pimp the Gimp for 3D" too.

Deskew 1.1 plugin for Gimp

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Deskew, also called auto straighten, is the automatic rotation of an image such that the text is vertically aligned. Now released as version 1.1 - looks great!
A Deb archive for Ubuntu Linux is available too. Deskew will appear in "Filters > Misc > Deskew".

GREYCstoration 2.8 plugin for Gimp

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GREYCstoration is a Gimp plugin for image denoising and interpolation, using state-of-the-art image processing techniques. It offers really cool, denoised and sharp results of noisy and artifacted images (check out the demo images).
Just download the 2.8 zip archive from the website and copy the "GREYCstoration_gimp_pc_linux" file into "~/.gimp-2.4/plug-in/". The filter can be found at the Gimp Image Window in "Filter > Enhance > GREYCstoration".

FX Foundry 20080323 update

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The FX Foundry, a collection of effect scripts for the image editor Gimp, has updated there package (20080323) again. And they have a new website now which gives you an better overview about the package.

New website of the Gimp Plugin Registry

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The website of the Gimp Plugin Registry gets updated. Now it includes comments, voting, documentations and a forum. Check it out!

Adobe will add DRM to Flash

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Adobe is working on an update for its Flash player 9 that will bring DRM to Flash. Since the popularity of Flash video and the support for H.264 the music and film industry like to get back control of the streamed content. This step could stop the development of Gnash and SWFdec, two alternatives to Adobes Flash player, too.
Read more about the dark side of Adobe at the EFF.org.

Bookmarking for gEdit

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Yesterday i checked out the gEdit plugins page again about something new. And i found it. Two plugins for bookmarking files and code lines.

Advanced Bookmarks
adds an panel below the code window and lets you easily bookmark the active code line. These bookmarks will be stored, so if you reopening the file again you will get your code line bookmarks back again.

Bookmarks
will add an item in the main menu and let you set bookmarks to often edited files.

Liquid Rescale 0.4 for Gimp and Liquid Rescale Library 0.1.0

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The Liquid Rescale plugin for Gimp is updated to version 0.4 and is now just a frontend to the Liquid Rescale Library 0.1.0. Liquid Rescale is a implementation of Seam Carving for Gimp.
Packages for Fedora and Ubuntu are available. Watch this video about Seam Carving:

GREYCstoration 2.6 Gimp plugin

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GREYCstoration is a Gimp plugin for image denoising and interpolation, using state-of-the-art image processing techniques. It offers really cool, denoised and sharp results of noisy and artifacted images (check out the demo images).
Just download the 2.6 zip archive from the website and copy the "GREYCstoration_gimp_pc_linux" file into "~/.gimp-2.4/plug-in/". The filter can be found at the Gimp Image Window in "Filter > Enhance > GREYCstoration".