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"The Gimp" and its plugins?
On Jan 29, 9:53 am, Richard Polhill
wrote: Alan Browne wrote: RolandRB wrote: Does anyone use "The Gimp" as an image editor and if so, which plugins do you recommend? I used a couple years ago under both Windows and Linux. The main complaint I have is while doing USM that you have to set the parameter, let it run, examine the result, undo, change parameters, run it... eg: the pre-viewing while adjusting is not very good. They may have improved it in the meantime. My other complaint is that it ran in 8-bit image mode. There was a separate version of it that did images in 16 bit, however it missed a lot of the other upgrades to the main Gimp edition. In short, the user interface is not as natural to use as PS, and the 16 bit image mode is not (was not, anyway) in the main release. It's worth a try (as it costs nothing but time), but keep your expectations in check. Cheers, Alan Progressed a lot since then. You may be impressed with the current version. yeah, definitely. but it *STILL* doesn't do 16 bit... :-( there is a plug-in that's supposed to let it use 16-bit files, but it crashed my Windoze box when I tried it. Haven't tried that one in Linux, though. |
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"The Gimp" and its plugins?
Toni Nikkanen wrote:
Lassi Hippeläinen writes: If you want to scan directly from Gimp, you'll need the Xsane plugin. I'm not sure if it comes with the Windows or Mac versions by default. It doesn't with Kubuntu Linux packages, but it is only a few clicks away in Synaptic. Is the Gimp better than Photoshop in this respect? What I mean is that if I scan directly into Photoshop, the application is blocked until the scanning is complete (which makes the feature useless if I can scan 4-24 frames at the same time - I'd rather scan into files using a separate application in that case.) The plugin is blocked, but Gimp itself can still run (at least in Linux). You can edit the previous picture while the next one gets scanned in the background. BTW, I forgot to mention that there is a Gimp-PhotoShop hybrid called GimpShop. The Gimp engine hiding behind a very PS-like user interface. http://www.gimpshop.net/ -- Lassi |
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"The Gimp" and its plugins?
RolandRB wrote:
On 29 Jan, 12:00, Lassi Hippeläinen wrote: Richard Polhill wrote: RolandRB wrote: Does anyone use "The Gimp" as an image editor and if so, which plugins do you recommend? Yes it is a perfectly acceptable alternative to PhotoShop. Interface may take some getting used to but no more than Photoshop's.Agree in both cases. I have not yet found the need for any plugins, in fact the compiled binaries on Windows and Mac OS come with verious special effects plug ins that mostly I've never even looked at.If you want to scan directly from Gimp, you'll need the Xsane plugin. I'm not sure if it comes with the Windows or Mac versions by default. It doesn't with Kubuntu Linux packages, but it is only a few clicks away in Synaptic. What plug ins do you think you might need?I.e. what effects do you need? I note they have a despckler but I was wanting something more to reduce film grain. Haven't tested them all (too many). If you don't find anything that suits your tastes, you can always write your own with Python. -- Lassi |
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"The Gimp" and its plugins?
On 30 Jan, 19:50, Lassi Hippeläinen
wrote: RolandRB wrote: On 29 Jan, 12:00, Lassi Hippeläinen wrote: Richard Polhill wrote: RolandRB wrote: Does anyone use "The Gimp" as an image editor and if so, which plugins do you recommend? Yes it is a perfectly acceptable alternative to PhotoShop. Interface may take some getting used to but no more than Photoshop's.Agree in both cases. I have not yet found the need for any plugins, in fact the compiled binaries on Windows and Mac OS come with verious special effects plug ins that mostly I've never even looked at.If you want to scan directly from Gimp, you'll need the Xsane plugin. I'm not sure if it comes with the Windows or Mac versions by default. It doesn't with Kubuntu Linux packages, but it is only a few clicks away in Synaptic. What plug ins do you think you might need?I.e. what effects do you need? I note they have a despckler but I was wanting something more to reduce film grain. Haven't tested them all (too many). If you don't find anything that suits your tastes, you can always write your own with Python. Do you mean as a plugin or separate. If a plugin then I get the impression that maybe the Gimp has come to the end of the line with its current architecture. I don't know how difficult it would be to change a plugin to work with a new architecture when it come along. |
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"The Gimp" and its plugins?
RolandRB wrote:
On 30 Jan, 19:50, Lassi Hippeläinen wrote: .... Haven't tested them all (too many). If you don't find anything that suits your tastes, you can always write your own with Python. Do you mean as a plugin or separate. If a plugin then I get the impression that maybe the Gimp has come to the end of the line with its current architecture. I don't know how difficult it would be to change a plugin to work with a new architecture when it come along. You can write your own plugin using Python. I wouldn't call it the end of the architecture - quite the opposite: the architecture is very flexible, since you can hang your own dongles on it using a well documented API. http://www.gimp.org/docs/python/index.html -- Lassi |
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"The Gimp" and its plugins?
On 31 Jan, 12:05, Lassi Hippeläinen
wrote: RolandRB wrote: On 30 Jan, 19:50, Lassi Hippeläinen wrote: ... Haven't tested them all (too many). If you don't find anything that suits your tastes, you can always write your own with Python. Do you mean as a plugin or separate. If a plugin then I get the impression that maybe the Gimp has come to the end of the line with its current architecture. I don't know how difficult it would be to change a plugin to work with a new architecture when it come along. You can write your own plugin using Python. I wouldn't call it the end of the architecture - quite the opposite: the architecture is very flexible, since you can hang your own dongles on it using a well documented API.http://www.gimp.org/docs/python/index.html -- Lassi Can I do this on a Windows XP PC? |
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"The Gimp" and its plugins?
RolandRB wrote:
On 31 Jan, 12:05, Lassi Hippeläinen wrote: RolandRB wrote: On 30 Jan, 19:50, Lassi Hippeläinen wrote: ... Haven't tested them all (too many). If you don't find anything that suits your tastes, you can always write your own with Python. Do you mean as a plugin or separate. If a plugin then I get the impression that maybe the Gimp has come to the end of the line with its current architecture. I don't know how difficult it would be to change a plugin to work with a new architecture when it come along. You can write your own plugin using Python. I wouldn't call it the end of the architecture - quite the opposite: the architecture is very flexible, since you can hang your own dongles on it using a well documented API.http://www.gimp.org/docs/python/index.html -- Lassi Can I do this on a Windows XP PC? It's a Gimp feature. Should work with any OS. -- Lassi |
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"The Gimp" and its plugins?
On 31 Jan, 12:51, Lassi Hippeläinen
wrote: RolandRB wrote: On 31 Jan, 12:05, Lassi Hippeläinen wrote: RolandRB wrote: On 30 Jan, 19:50, Lassi Hippeläinen wrote: ... Haven't tested them all (too many). If you don't find anything that suits your tastes, you can always write your own with Python. Do you mean as a plugin or separate. If a plugin then I get the impression that maybe the Gimp has come to the end of the line with its current architecture. I don't know how difficult it would be to change a plugin to work with a new architecture when it come along. You can write your own plugin using Python. I wouldn't call it the end of the architecture - quite the opposite: the architecture is very flexible, since you can hang your own dongles on it using a well documented API.http://www.gimp.org/docs/python/index.html -- Lassi Can I do this on a Windows XP PC? It's a Gimp feature. Should work with any OS. Then I might look into it. |
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"The Gimp" and its plugins?
On 31 Jan, 13:12, "RolandRB" wrote:
On 31 Jan, 12:51, Lassi Hippeläinen wrote: RolandRB wrote: On 31 Jan, 12:05, Lassi Hippeläinen wrote: RolandRB wrote: On 30 Jan, 19:50, Lassi Hippeläinen wrote: ... Haven't tested them all (too many). If you don't find anything that suits your tastes, you can always write your own with Python. Do you mean as a plugin or separate. If a plugin then I get the impression that maybe the Gimp has come to the end of the line with its current architecture. I don't know how difficult it would be to change a plugin to work with a new architecture when it come along. You can write your own plugin using Python. I wouldn't call it the end of the architecture - quite the opposite: the architecture is very flexible, since you can hang your own dongles on it using a well documented API.http://www.gimp.org/docs/python/index.html -- Lassi Can I do this on a Windows XP PC? It's a Gimp feature. Should work with any OS. Then I might look into it.- Hide quoted text - I've got python as part of Cygwin on my PC. Can I use that or does it have to be another one? |
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"The Gimp" and its plugins?
Noons wrote:
yeah, definitely. but it *STILL* doesn't do 16 bit... :-( there is a plug-in that's supposed to let it use 16-bit files, but it crashed my Windoze box when I tried it. Haven't tried that one in Linux, though. Question is, does 2.3.* do it? There is no Slackware package so I will need to compile from source. However, it has a fair few dependencies to be compiled first si it will take a little while. Pete -- http://www.petezilla.co.uk |
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