127 Useful Gimp Scripts and Plugins
While I do record Photoshop and After Effects tutorials from time to time, lately my focus has been on my Gimp works. Therefore I have rounded up the best Gimp scripts and plugins available on the net, including scripts I personally use. Enjoy, and I hope you find these scripts and plugins useful.FX Foundry FX Foundry is without a doubt the best Gimp scripts collection around. The Foundry team has 117 gimp scripts, but the best part of the collection, the Layer Effects scripts. We all know Photoshop has layer styles, and are one of the big drawbacks due to Gimp's lack thereof, however The Foundry has written scripts to match (as closely as possible) the layer styles in Photoshop, I use these quite regularly.
Simulating Shallow Depth of Field with The GIMP
SimulatedDOF One of the facts of life of shooting with consumer digicams and their associated small imaging sensors is that it can be difficult to achieve a shallow depth of field. Having large depth of field is usually a good thing, leading to pictures in which all of the important parts of the picture are in focus.
Download useful, free GIMP plugins
GIMP, the free and open-source image editor, is often blamed for its lack of polish in its interface. However, with sufficient addons (particularly plugins), you can achieve a lot of functionality found in other editors. Our previous GIMP plugins post looked at best plugins for web design, photography etc. In this second roundup, we will take a look at plugins that bring Photoshop’s features to GIMP. This is significant, because GIMP typically draws a lot of flack for not having many of Photoshop’s functionality. You might also want to read our previous posts on GIMP:
Python Documentation
This document outlines the interfaces to GIMP-Python, which is a set of Python modules that act as a wrapper to libgimp allowing the writing of plug-ins for GIMP. In this way, GIMP-Python is similar to Script-Fu, except that you can use the full set of Python extension modules from the plug-in. Introduction What is it?
Gimparoo
