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Name Description Author
gimp-perl VERSION 1.16

Write plug-ins, extensions, commandline and remote(!) gimp-scripts, all from a single sourcefile. Apart from plain pdb syntax this extension supports an OO oriented interface. A nice tracing capability is included, where you can watch every pdb call together its with arguments and return-values.

With Gimp::Fu, script-writing is now easier than with any other language ;) Plus, you can run the _same_ script from within Gimp, from the commandline (even on another machine), or standalone (the script will start gimp itself)

The Gimp::PDL module gives access to tiles and regions (i.e. the raw image data) as piddles, for easy (and fast!) manipulation.

Last not least a Script-Fu to Perl converter aids in migrating your scripts to perl.

Since there are many more features that can ever be explained here, better visit gimp.pages.de now.

Marc Lehmann
glowing_steel This plug-in generates a new logo style, as well as adding three new effects to the Image->Filters->Render menu which impliment the various stages of this logo. The logo look was inspired by the Lost In Space "Get Lost" logo that appeared on some of their posters. This is a brushed-metal looking text phrase, with black/white highlit edges on a glowing field. Check it out, and let me know what you think! Aaron Sherman
Border Average (Perl) The plug-in calculates a matching background colour from its border (just like it's C-counterpart). It shows how raw pixels can be efficiently handled using PDL. Marc Lehmann & Phillip Klaus
Webify This small but handy plug-in will flatten an image, remove the background colour (i.e adds transparency), converts it to indexed and autocrops it.

Of course, all of this is optional and if you wish will be done on a copy.

It's quite handy when you want to save an image (like a logo), and should do the most common tasks for you. Tell me if you need more ;)

Marc Lehmann
gimp-make-img-map This plug-in is used to create tiles of several images e.g. for the creation of html image maps. See http://imagic.weizmann.ac.il/~dov/gimp/gimp-make-img-map/ for further info and examples. Dov Grobgeld
Alpha 2 Color Changes alpha in a layer to a specified color. I hope to use it as a building block for future plug-ins. A little nicer style and less buglets than 0.01 Seth Burgess
Ditherize This plug-in converts the current selection to the indexed format (i.e. it dithers it). When you edit a dithered file (say, a GIF) you can use this plug-in to re-dither the parts that you changed. Marc Lehmann
tex-to-float Takes a TeX string as input and creates a floating layer of the rendered string in the current layer in the foreground color. Dov Grobgeld
AutoLogo Takes a file with texts and fontsize and automatically creates logos out of them. Planned is to make automatically completely new sets of logos or other automatons. Included is one sample script which creates 3D Text logos. Tels
View3D View3D uses the Perl Data Language (PDL) 3D graphics capabilities to view a grayscale drawable as a height field. Of course it requires PDL and a PDL 3D facility such as OpenGL. Tom Rathborne
Seth Spin Spins one image around a horizontal axis, and brings up a new one. Should be well suited to web banners and such. Requires recent gimp and very recent gimp-perl Seth Burgess
gshow gshow will create some files to display some pictures in a kind of slide show in every new webbrowser. It is yet a beta version but it works for me. It is also possible to print a kind of contact print with preview of all pictures. Addes some printing enhancement. Ludger Berse
feedback Simulates video feedback, an idea borrowed with permission from adrian.gimp.org. Maybe I'll get industrious and give it some more paramters later. Seth Burgess
Xach Blocks creates blocks in the manner prescribed by xach on IRC. Neat effect :) A couple of fixes in 1.2, undo in 1.3! Seth Burgess
Xach Shadows Makes neat shadows on your picture. Another algorithm of xach's easily realized in perl :) This works on an entire image only - sorry... updated to flush display. 1.1 adds undo! Seth Burgess
repdup Will repeat and duplicate current selection X times, using x- and y-offsets. Tested with 1.1.3. Claes G Lindblad
Blowinout Simulates the effect of the image being drawn with colored sand, and then being blown in or out by the wind. John Pitney
Terral Text Does a neat text render effect. Now uses the radio button selection (cool!) and a couple nice internal additions. Seth Burgess
Xach Vision Creates a "machine vision" type appearance. Can operate on a selection, has undo. Best when done with photos. Seth Burgess
font_table This plug-in is designed as a replacement for font-map (and thus is in the same menu with it, even though it's not script-fu). It has a much more featureful (and useable) user interface, and can use perl regular expressions to find fonts. It can render multiple pages of fonts for easy printing, and has all the usuall docs (use "Help" to see them). Aaron Sherman
animate_cells This plug-in animates an image, whose layers are cells (like old-style physical animation) and a background layer. This allows much more rapid animation development time with the gimp. New version adds documentation, and a toggle for working on a copy. Aaron Sherman
yinyang This plugin creates a yin-yang image. It has several options, including making the "eyes" out of other images. Aaron Sherman
image_tile While possibly one of the most exciting plug-ins to come along in a while, do not tread lightly here. This plugin simulates Rob Silvers' (hi Rob!) Photo Mosaic sorts of effects, but has (I suspect) a much simpler tile matching algorithm (and thus, produces inferior results). You will need a target image and one or more directories of several *thousand* source images. They will be tiled in such a way as to most closely produce the target image. You will need a working Berkely DB library and quite a bit of disk space for the tile cache. One technique that I have used to "clean up" the resulting image is to overlay a mostly transparent copy of the original image on top. Aaron Sherman
Inner Bevel Perform's tigert's inner bevel on some text. The options are pretty versatile - you can achieve a wide variety of effects. Seth Burgess
Random Blends randomly applies N randomly chosen gradients in various random manners. Seth Burgess
perlotine This chops up the image into pieces, determined by the guides. It outputs a bunch of gifs and the HTML needed to put it them together again. Seth Burgess
Fit Text Fits text to a given rectangular selection. Kinda handy at times... Seth Burgess
Guide Grid Creates a grid of guides. 2 different entries - 1 for creating a number of divisions, another for specifyting spacings. Seth Burgess
Rounded Rectangular Selection Takes the current selection and turns it into a rectangular selection with rounded corner. Taken from gimp news Q&A. Seth Burgess
stamps Will create a new, rectangular image looking like a postage stamp (with perforations). You can select colours, hole diameter as well as spacing between the holes. The plug-in is tested with 1.1.3. Claes G Lindblad
stampify Will take an active layer and transform it into looking like a postage stamp (with perforations). You can select colours, marginal, hole diameter as well as spacing between the holes. The plug-in is tested with 1.1.x. Update to hopefully survive 'use strict'. Claes G Lindblad
centerguide Produces two kinds of center guides: one physical or one optical set of guides. The latter is calculated according to the Golden Mean. The plug-in is tested with 1.1.3. Claes G Lindblad
triangle Will make a triangular selection, having the diagonal as one of its sides. Several options are included The plug-in is tested with 1.1.3. Claes G Lindblad
goldenmean Will create a new image. You enter the shortest side, select portrait or landscape orientation and it will automagically calculate the longest side according to the Golden Mean. The plug-in is tested with 1.1.3. Claes G Lindblad
billboard Creates a moving billboard effect of one or 2 images. Seth Burgess
MirrorSplit Update, because of a nasty bug, appearing when one had more layers than two :-( This plug-in will take any half of your image (upper, lower, right or left) and mirror it into the other half. Tested with 1.1.x Claes G Lindblad
bg-scale This is a collection of scripts I use to change my X background every hour. I recently upgraded my video card so now all my backgrounds are too small. After trying many different programs I found out that nothing scales images like the gimp so I added a gimp-perl script to do that.. The next version will probably be a single perl script.. Rick Haines
gimp-bg This is a script I use to randomly change my X background every hour (actually, I now use one that uses PerlMagick..). It uses gimp-image-scale to scale any images that aren't in the correct resolution (it keeps the aspect ratio). Rick Haines
Wrap Will wrap the layer in Y- and/or X-direction, just like Channel Ops/Offset, but since this is a plug-in, the action can be repeated, using . Claes G Lindblad
perl_fu_waffler cut up an RGB image into: 1) individual image tiles, 2) montage of all the tiles, and 3) image with 1 layer for each tile, for anim purposes. Aimed at tile based game creators, but webby stuff will shortly follow. wayne keenan
Text Montage Displays a string in random colors and fonts in random locations on an image. It produces an interesting background effect, and the images are tileable. Sheldon White
Text Patches Chops a text file up into multi-line chunks, then displays those chunks in a variety of colors and fonts in random places. This can make some interesting background effects (it looks cool when used with source code), and the images are tileable. Sheldon White
Linoleum This creates an image tiled with smaller rectangles. It's useful for making linoleum or masonry effects, and the images are tileable. Sheldon White
HiLite One Perl, one cgi script which generate two buttons from a text, which can then be used with a java-script on a web page to get a high-light effect when the mouse is over the button. Giray Devlet

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