GIMP Plugins for Photography

By Administrator, on 08-01-2008 15:26

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The GIMP is the wonderful multiplatform tool for image processing, This software is a king for Linux environment and the second  (after Photoshop) in popularity in Windows and Apple.

GIMP’s strength lies in huge number of plugins, which are developed by the open-source toting community. Here we offer a collection of photo-oriented plugins.

  • Astro-plugins: A set of plugins for astronomical image processing.
  • Black Ink: Transform an image to a B&W drawing made with ink.
  • Blot: GIMP avatar of BlotBrush. Based on blot algorithm and works well with spatter or cloudy image.
  • Colour saturation: Change the color saturation of your image.
  • Copyright Text: Add a copyright text to image.
  • DeNoise: Noise reduction plugin using a modified Gaussian blur algorithm.
  • Digital IR: Simulate a BW infrared image.
  • DustCleaner: Detect and remove the dust spots in digital image.
  • Edgy: Make an image look edgy.
  • EZ Improviser: Improve dull, dingy images.
  • Film Grain: Add film grain for a classic feel, to BW images.
  • FocusBlur: Makes an image out of focus with luminosity and depth.
  • Gradient Along Path: Strikes a vector applying a gradient orthogonally to the path.
  • ISO Noise Reduction: Implements an ISO noise reduction, using different methods (masking the edges, then blurring the individual color channels or the lumimance channel only).
  • Landscape painter: Creates interesting paint effect that looks best with landscapes.
  • Light Filter: Provides basic filtering by adjusting colour levels of each pixels.
  • Lomo: Make photos clear, sharp and crisp. Especially useful for outdoor photographs.
  • Pandora: Stitch together multiple images to make a panorama.
  • Photo Effects: A bunch of scripts brought together in one script-fu file. Contains cartoon, color pencil, conte crayon, cutout, Drawing, ink pen, note paper, paint dot image, palette knife, pastel, stamp, water paint effect, wrap effect, angled strokes, crosshatched, chrome image, cross light, funky color, soft focus, solarisation, brick wall, patchwork, stained glass, texturizer, high pass, scroll effects.
  • PhotoToolbox: Perform several actions on a photo at once such as defocus, desaturate (several papers emulations), toning, add grain.
  • RedEye: Quickly remove red eye effect caused by camera flashes.
  • Refocus: Opposite of FocusBlur(listed above), this refocuses images. Provides better results than Unsharp masking which is built into GIMP.
  • ShadowRecovery: Recover image information in darked regions.
  • Shadows/Highlights: Eliminate shadows and highlights in photographs.
  • Last update: 08-01-2008 15:28

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