2.3 Guillotine into Layers

Randall — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:52:40 +0100

Short description:,
The Guillotine-into-Layers plug-in is a variation on the Guillotine plug-in by Adam D. Moss. It is intended to address a shortcoming of the original: Too many windows opened! There is, however, a trade-off.

Advantages:
The Guillotine-into-Layers plug-in slices the original image along guides just as does the standard Guillotine plug-in; however, instead of spawning many new images - which clutter the desktop and bog down the processor, this plug-in makes only one new image with multiple layers - one layer for each rectangular region. The user can then selectively copy a single layer from this new image, and paste it as a new image, giving the user greater control. Furthermore, the new image is named with the *.xcf file suffix. That way, if the user needs to stop processing the layers of the new image before s/he is done, then s/he can simply save the new image in the GIMP's native format - which preserves multiple layers.

The trade-off:
When the original Guillotine plug-in slices an image, each new image has the same number of layers as the original, each copied from the same rectangular region. On the other hand, the Guillotine-into-Layers plug-in performs a copy-visible-layers action over each region to produce a new layer for the resulting image - implicitly merging the original layers.

Update 2009-11-8:
The second package - v.0.1.1 - contains an executable compiled for Windows platform and French translations - both from samj. See:
http://registry.gimp.org/node/19886#comment-5923

Visibility Manager

GandalftheGray — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:46:23 +0200

Actions:
> Hide layes without active
> Switch visible property
> Manage visibility (background, top, active, others layer)

Loader for NASA/ESA PDS/EDR images

areo — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 13:19:24 +0100

This plugin loads NASA/ESA PDS/EDR images.

PDS/EDR format is the image format used by NASA Planetary Data System and by ESA Planetary Science Archives. PDS images from various space missions are available at http://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/ and http://www.rssd.esa.int/index.php?project=PSA

With the PDS plug-in you can load images from these missions and others:

Mars Express HRSC
2001 Mars Odyssey THEMIS EDR/RDR-QUB (RGB-loader)
Mars Global Surveyor MOC
Mars Pathfinder
Viking Lander

PDS-files usually have the filename-suffix ".img" or ".imq" if compressed. Note, that this suffix is also used for other non-PDS file-formats.

The plug-in will install itself as input filter for files with the following suffixes:
img,imq,qub,pds,edr,bb1,bb2,bb3,bb4,ir1,ir2,ir3,n07,n15,sur,sun,red,grn,blu,sgr,vio

Source and compiled versions for Windows, Linux and Mac OS:
http://areo.info/gimp/

lay out lay in layers

MichaJo — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:29:53 +0100

purpose of this plugin is, to lay out and lay in a group of consecutive layers of an image
(a humble kind of collapse and expand groups of layers)
"collapse":
a determinable number of layers (including the active layer) will be stored (layed out) in a new image.
the name of this image is a time stamp ("%Y%m%d-%H%M%S") plus the string ".xcf".
e.g. 20080117-192642.xcf.
the visible layed out layers will be merged down to a single layer in the source image.
the name of this layer is the above mentioned time stamp.
"expand":
look for the open image with the name like the active layer's name of the source image.
fetch all the layers of the layed-out-layers-image and place them above the active layer.
this active layer will not be replaced but switched to invisible.
laylaylay registers itself under Image - Layer - Stack.

Subtract Small Selection Isles

hof@gimp.org — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 08:00:26 +0100

Subtract small isles from the current selection and/or add small unselected isles to the current selection. The parameters pixel_diagonal and pixel_limit are used to define area size that is considered as small isle.
INSTALL: gimptool-2.0 --install isle.c

RAWTex

hitchhikr — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 02:27:02 +0100

RAWTex is a save plugin for GIMP 2.2.x, 2.3.x & 2.4.x allowing to create raw textures for the PC, PSP, NDS, PS2 or any other architecture handling chunky or compressed dxtc formats.

It can save raw RGBA (5650, 5551, 4444 or 8888) & indexed (T4, T8) textures (with 5650, 5551, 4444 or 8888 palette modes support) as well as DXTC (DXT1, DXT3, DXT5) compresssed ones, it supports the PSP textures swizzle mode and can generate mipmaps, it also have a color key feature to handle transparency and can convert grayscale pictures into alpha channel only textures.

GIMP XMLRPC-Server (crazy, unfinished)

schumaml — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:38:59 +0100

This is an attempt at exposing GIMP funtionality as an XMLRPC web service.

This is not finished. It can probably not be finished that way it has been startedt. It will require a lot more code. Actually, putting GEGL behind such a thing makes much more sense.

Have a look at Xtns/Python to find the menu entry which does start the server.

But it does work, in an extremely limited way. You can e.g. change the current foreground and background colors... Have a look at the gimprpctest.py script for this.

To get an overview of what this XMLRPC server offers, point your browser to http://localhost:8000

Anf, of course, the buzzwords which make this a lot more understandable by the gernal public: Web 2.0, Webservices, AJAX ;)

"Unit" tests for PDB functions accessible by Script-Fu

schumaml — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 23:34:54 +0200

This is a simple Unit-test-look-alike approach to test the functions available in Script-Fu. Currently, only the gimp-brush-* stuff is done (or at least each function is called at least once).

Everything is based on bunny-test, a framework available from http://community.schemewiki.org/?bunny-test and simple enough to be used with TinyScheme (more complete stuff relies on syntax not available in this implementation).

One bug has been identified this way already, gimp-brush-rename took an empty string for the new name.

Minimal Python-Fu script

schumaml — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 23:07:24 +0200

This is a minimal Python-Fu script. It does absolutely nothing besides registering itself in the menu.

The motivation for it was to show whether pass is a valid body for a script function. It is.