GPLv2+

Users Guide
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What this plugin does:

Transfers artistic style from one image to another. Often the source is an artistic image and the target is a realistic, photo image. But you can also transfer between artistic images or between realistic images.

An artist might say this plugin "renders in the media and style from another image." A computer user might say it "renders in the theme of another image."

Transferring style means transferring small scale features (color and texture) to an image while retaining large scale features (objects.)

This was an attempt to get an effect similar to the Photoshop "Water Ripple" filter. There are three modes of displacement map, one based on scaled plasma noise, one based on clouds (perlin noise) and one based on the image edges.
Everything else is at the default settings, but you can also adjust the scaling and fade.

This plugin creates a new image having texture synthesized from the selection.

It hides several steps to set up and use the resynthesizer. It requires the separate resynthesizer plug-in.

See the Resynthesizer author Paul Harrison's website, about using the resynthesizer to generate textures.

The effect for users:
Similar to "Fill resynthesized pattern" except:
- here the arguments are reversed: you select a texture and create a new image
instead of selecting an area and choosing a pattern.
- here the result is less random (since Fill resynthesized adds noise.)

This script scales the image in multiple steps, automatically stretching contrast HSV at every step in order to make the resulting image have a better quality and contrast, preserving hue.

The user is required to specify the final image long side length (in pixels) and the scaling ratio in percentage of each step, default percentage is 66.

According to the plugin "plug-in-autostretch-hsv" by Scott Goehring and Federico Mena Quintero, stretching contrast HSV may give bad results. Contrast stretching can be disabled.

This script will warp text to fit inside a four-point "Bezier patch". The bezier patch is created with the Path Tool by first placing an anchor where the upper-left corner of the text should go, followed by three more anchors running clockwise around the perimeter.

A plugin that makes shortcuts, in a Shortcuts menu, to other plugins.

Install it in your local plugin directory. You can run it to see what it would do, and cancel it, without creating any shortcuts. If you do create shortcuts, it will create them in your local plugin directory. You can later manually delete the shortcut plugins.

This is a prototype that I'm posting for comment. It works but it could be improved. I would be glad to start a community project.

A future version might:
- let you enter parameters for the target plugin (make a "preset")

This file contains examples, or templates, of registering plugins using gimpfu.register().
This is for GIMP Python programmers, not users.
When installed, this one file puts many (nine) demo plugins into GIMP.
The demo plugins don't do much except make an appearance.

These demonstrate various combinations of:
- where plugins appear (or not) in the menus (or elsewhere) in GIMP
- when the plugin's menu items are enabled (sensitive)
- what parameters a plugin_main() receives
- whether a plugin opens a GUI dialog for user to choose options (set parameters.)