2.6 RSS Lightsaber (LSE) v0.9

spoilt_exile — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:26:13 +0100

RSS Lightsaber (or LSE) is a simple script for creating lightsaber effect in picture. The script base on my own algorithm.
Features:

Fast script's execution.
Independent setting for blur size of the lightsaber's core and glow around saber.
Some features to provide correct effects on extra large photos (above 20 Mp).

The basic documentation is inside archive. Enjoy!
Next release (v1.0 with new documentation and lessons) in December 2009.

Blur & Shadow

Guillaume57 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:32:46 +0100

Creates a picture which is a duplication of the current picture blured as background,
and the current picture itself reduce with a border and shadow around it as foreground

Example:
Original picture :
Result picture :

Adjustment Layer Script

elsamuko — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:44:22 +0100

This script generates two adjustment layers from the two layers on the top, A is the original image layer, B the modified (e.g. sharpened) one on top:
A - B = C
B - A = D
A - C + D = B

Now you can apply further editing and "switch on/off" the adjustment by switching the visibility of the subtractive and the additive layer. Also you can change the modification intensity by changing the intensity of these two layers.

Copy it into the scripts folder from GIMP, you will find it then under Layer -> Adjustment Layers:
http://docs.gimp.org/2.6/en/install-script-fu.html

Example image:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28653536@N07/4113253102/

Left: B A
Right: D C A B

Finally a big thank you to Shelly and Roy from the Flickr GIMP group:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shelly-and-roy/

Script-fu inverse-visibility-active-layer

Hevan53 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:59:26 +0100

This script inverse the visibility of the active layer. It is very useful because you can give it a short cut and use the mouse only on your image!

Script-fu all-visible-or-all-invisible

Hevan53 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:57:49 +0100

This script set all layers visible or invisible. Don't download it if you have downloaded Script-fu-yin-yang.zip.

Script-fu Yin-Yang

Hevan53 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:54:56 +0100

This script create a yin-yang figure inside an image. In the package there are : script-fu-yin-yang.scm and all-visible-or-all-invisible.scm (because the first script depends of the second script).

Calendar maker

saulgoode — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:10:26 +0100

The script I've written adds two layers to an image which overlay the active layer with dates and a grid of lines producing a calendar for the specified month. It is not so much intended to create a complete calendar, but to be used as a tool in creating calendars. The command appears in the menus as "Filters->Render->Calendar..."

The options presented in the dialog are:
* Month - the month to be used
* Year - the year to be used
* Sunday first - if checked then Sunday is the first day of the week, otherwise Monday
* Font - the font to be used
* Fontsize - The size of the numbers used for the dates. 100% will use the largest possible
* Right justify - If checked then the date will be right-justified in a field two characters wide
* Border width - determines how thick the lines of the grid will be (can be "0" for no grid)
* Border color - color used for grid (note: FG color is used for the text)
* Date position - the alignment of the date number within its box

The month and year are not generated on the image; they should be added to the image manually if desired. For reference, the month and year appear in the layer names of the newly created layers.

EDIT: When called from the PDB, the script will return a list containing the "dates" layerID and the "grid" layerID.

EDIT2: I have updated the script and added a "Layout" option which offers the following treatments of the dates:

* Allow 6 weeks (resizing text for optimal fit)
* Force 6 weeks (use six rows of weeks in all cases, even for a 4-week February)
* Wrap week 6 to week 1 (the approach proposed by wbool)
* Wrap week 6 to week 5 (and if needed compressing two days into a single cell)

Watermark

laurentiu — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:32:28 +0100

Imprints a non-intrusive faint text watermark sparsely repeated over the entire image. The watermark is meant to be visible upon close inspection without disturbing the viewing of the image.

The watermark visibility can be fine-tuned by changing the opacity of the watermark layer.

Contains an image plugin that operates on an open image and a batch
plugin that requires the filenames for the source and modified images.

Requires Python.

Install in the plug-ins GIMP directory. Make sure the file is executable or GIMP will ignore it.

To process a file via command-line:

The parameters are source image, "save as" filename, opacity, text, font name, font size in points.

Select Top/Previous/Next/Bottom Layer Only

gigadude — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:56:44 +0100

This script cycles through layers making the active layer the only visible layer (useful for hand-editing simple animations) similar to Layer > Stack > Select Next/Previous Layer.

Smooth Path (new)

ijontichy — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:38:10 +0100

This plugin will take the active path and smooth it, using a Bezier
interpolation algorithm. If you've ever wanted to define a bunch of
points, and then have the GIMP draw a smooth path through them, this
plugin is for you. There is the option to smooth corners between a
range of angles.

Settings include:

Smooth only specified corners: If checked,
only corners whose interior angles lie between the two settings below
will be smoothed.
Minimum angle: Corners blunter (greater) than
this angle will be smoothed.
Maximum angle: Corners sharper (less) than this
angle will be smoothed.

This plugin creates a new entry in the Paths dialog right-click menu.

For details of the algorithm used in this plugin, see here:

http://www.math.ucla.edu/~baker/java/hoefer/Spline.htm

Be sure to read the readme.txt file for installation and user help.

Thanks to Rob Antonishen for his valuable contributions.