GIMP 2.10.14 arrives with bugfixes and various enhancements.
Mac OS X 10.8.x Mountain Lion: GIMP 2.8.2 for Mountain Lion Mac OS X 10.6.x Snow Leopard & 10.7.x Lion – 64 bit: GIMP 2.8.2 for Snow Leopard & Lion Mac OS X 10.6.x Snow Leopard – 32 bit: GIMP 2.8.2 for Snow Leopard. GIMP access on Mac Open Finder, locate the gimp dmg file, and then just hold the control key when you click on the Gimp dmg, and click open. It will then allow you to install/open gimp without disabling any security settings. GIMP Fx-Foundry as the name suggests a foundry for graphics. It is a huge knapsack of 100+ image processing scripts. Each of these scripts adds an individual feature to work with the GIMP. GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. The GIMP is suitable for a variety of image manipulation tasks, including photo retouching, image composition, and image construction. GIMP has many capabilities. You may want to check out more software for Mac, such as GimpPainter, Seashore or Pixen, which might be similar to Gimp.
Here are release highlights:
- Basic out-of-canvas pixels viewing and editing
- Optional editing of layers with disabled visibility
- Foreground Select tool: new Grayscale Preview Mode
- Newly added Normal Map filter
- 27 old filters ported to use GEGL buffers
- HEIF, TIFF, and PDF support improvements
- Better loading of corrupted XCF files
- Grayscale workflows order of magnitude faster
- macOS Catalina compatibility
- 45 bugfixes, 22 translation updates
Not being able to view and edit data outside the canvas boundary used to bea deal breaker in quite a few use cases. So this is going to be a bit ofa breakthrough moment for quite a few users.
This is what has changed:
- There is now a new Show All mode accessible via the View menu thatreveals all pixels outside the canvas boundary.
- This mode uses alpha checkerboard for canvas padding, but you can configureGIMP to temporarily or permanently use the usual padding color instead.
- You can also enable canvas boundary cue display (dotted red line).
- Color- and patch-picking, bucket-filling, and transforming now works outsidethe canvas. Which means you can crop past the canvas boundary or pick a sourcepatch from outside the canvas area to heal an area inside the canvas.
This is basically the first shot at the previously missing feature set,so expect more to land to GIMP at some point in the future. Making selectiontools work outside the canvas sounds like a sensible next stop. Then maybe wecan seriously talk about boundless canvas.
Most of the work on this was done by Ell.
This new feature is closely related to out-of-canvas viewing and editingand was also contributed by Ell.
Now when you e.g. rotate a single-layer image, you can use this transformtype to automatically expand the canvas to include all of rotated pixelswhen using the default Adjust clipping mode. The switch is right nextto layer/path/selection toggle at the top of any transform tool's settings.
It's complemented by a new Image > Transform > Arbitrary Rotation… menuentry, which activates the rotate tool in the Image mode.
The result of some filters can be larger than the original layer. A very commonexample is Drop Shadow, which adds a shadow at an offset to the layer. Suchfilters are no longer clipped to the layer boundary by default. Instead, thelayer is automatically resized as necessary when the filter is applied.
This behavior can be toggled through the new Clipping option in the filter dialog.
There is now a global toggle to enable the editing of layers with disabledvisibility (the eye icon in the layers docker). There was somedemand for it from users,and it was easy to do, so a new contributor, woob, added this feature.
The Free Select tool received further usability improvements. https://xktvxx.over-blog.com/2021/01/mercedes-benz-c180-2016-user-manual.html. It now supportsusing Alt+drag to quickly move, cut, and copy the selection, without having tocommit the selection first, similarly to the rest of the selection tools.
Thomas Manni contributed a new Grayscale preview mode to theForeground Select tool, which allows seeing the resulting mask in blackand white. The usual preview mode is now called Color and choosing thecolor and opacity for the mask instead of imposing only 4 colors (red, green,blue, grey).
The Feather Selection dialog has a new Selected areas continue outsidethe image toggle, working similarly to the corresponding option in the ShrinkSelection and Border Selection dialogs. This option affects the borderbehavior of the operation: when toggled, selected areas along the image borderare assumed to continue past the image bounds, and are therefore not affected bythe feather.
Thanks to Ell, GIMP is now shipping with a simple Normal Map filter(Filters > Generic) that generates normal maps from height maps. This isearly initial work, a lot more is expected to be done.
GIMP now provides direct access to more GEGL filters:
- Bayer Matrix (for ordered dithering) and Linear Sinusoid (useful forhalftoning), also both created by Ell, are in the Filters > Render > Pattern menu.
- Newsprint (Filters > Distorts), by Øyvind Kolås, is a GEGL version ofthe old GIMP filter for halftoning, plus quite a few extras.
- Mean Curvature Blur, by Thomas Manni, can be helpful to do edge-preserving blurring.
Also, more GEGL-based filters with on-canvas preview have replaced old GIMPcounterparts: Neon (Filters > Edge-Detect), Stretch Contrast (Colors > Auto), and Oilify (Filters > Artistic).
Moreover, Michael Natterer did a simple 8-bit per channel port of 27 olderfilters to use GEGL buffers (they are still GIMP filters, not GEGL operations).Another filter, Van Gogh, got higher bit depth support (up to 32bpc float).
GIMP now supports ICC profiles in HEIF images at both loading and exportingtime when built with libheif v1.4.0 and newer. The exporting dialog alsofeatures a new 'Save color profile' checkbox.
The TIFF importer now asks how to process unspecified TIFF channels: use asnon-premultiplied alpha (used to be the default), as premultiplied alpha,or just import as a generic channel. This fixes a known bug with 4-channel(RGBA) TIFF files as demonstrated here.
Finally, the PDF exporter was fixed by Lionel to export text layers insidelayer groups as text correctly.
XCF loading is now a bit more resilient to corruption: it doesn't stop anymore at the first layer or channel error; instead it tries to load morelayers/channels to salvage as much data as possible from a corrupted XCF file.
Alex Samorukov introduced various improvements to the macOS build of GIMP.
First and foremost, GIMP is now compatible with macOS Catalina and doesn't havethe file permission issue that the 2.10.12 build had.
Secondly, the DMG will now open a window with an Applications
shortcut that explains how to install it.He also added some fixes for command line users.
Finally, Alex built the new version with updated 3rd party components.Among other things, this means support for color profiles in HEIF/HEIC files.
Gitlab CI for GIMP now has a job building GIMP for Windows. It iscurrently set up to make builds of the master branch only(will eventually become GIMP 3.0).
To download a build:
- Go to the Jobs section.
- Find a job with the ‘gimp-x86_64-w64-mingw32-meson' name.
- Click ‘Download artifacts' button to the right of the name.
- Unpack the archive.
- The binary
gimp-2.99.exe
is found undergimp-prefixbin
, though you might have to rungimp-wrapper.cmd
instead.
The build was set up by Jehan.
⚠️ Please note that we don't recommend using the master branch forproduction! This is mostly for testing purposes. ⚠️
As usual, a complete list of changes is available in theNEWS file. Curio 9 4 5 – brainstorming and project management app. Startingwith this release, NEWS also features the list of all code and translation conbtributors.
We also thank frogonia, nmat, Michael Schumacher, and everyone else who helps ustriaging bug reports and providing technical support to end-users.
Installer Gimp Pour Mac
GEGL and babl¶
Both babl and GEGL have been ported to the Meson build system and now useGitlab CI for continuous integration. This has little significance forend-users but makes developers' life easier in many ways.
There has been a ton of other changes and improvements in GEGL since theprevious release. Here are some of the most interesting ones.
GEGL now makes a better use of available CPU cores on more operationsthanks to newly added dynamic computation of per-operation thread cost.
The built-in GEGLUI has superceded the older built-in ‘gcut' video editor,so the latter is now removed. Playing back video has been improved: GEGLnow uses nearest neighbor interpolation while decoding for realtime playbackof HD video content, it now also uses frame cache for rendered video frames.
Moreover, you can now also use external file managers to drag and cropcontent into collections. See the updated NEWS filefor more details.
As for babl, it now supports Yu'v' (CIE 1976 UCS) color model, handlesgrayscale ICC color profiles, and uses AVX2 acceleration for somelinear-to-float conversions.
Alpha handling in babl has been slightly revamped. The library is now using theterms ‘associated alpha' and ‘separate alpha', all of nonpremultiplied-,premultiplied- and nonassociated- alpha are now considered deprecated API.Conversions between associated and separate alpha have been dramatically improved.
Øyvind Kolås has a plan to add a per-image associated/separate alpha switch toGIMP's menu once another batch of code changes by Michael Natterer lands to themaster branch.
Here is a lightning talk at CCC where Øyvind investigates the data loss incurredby going separate alpha -> associated -> separate
orassociated -> separate -> associated
and discovers that the special casedtransparent/emissive cases end up lossless:
Øyvind also iterated on new conversions in babl that cover grayscale in allprecisions supported by GIMP for some things, this means that working ingrayscale is an order of magnitude faster than it was before the last babl release.
See here for moreinformation on the latest release.
Another new project worth mentioning is ctx,also by Øyvind Kolås. It's an API inspired by Cairo and HTML5 canvas' 2Drendering context. It works on 32-bit microcontrollers like ESP32 andARM-CortexM4, and is devised to scale to networked/remote and threaded software rendering.
The ctx library already has support for floating point pixel formats, andthat support is geared to end up generic for gray, RGB, CMYK and othermulti-component formats. The latter is one of the things we've beenmissing in Cairo.
So this is a very interesting projectthat we might consider using for GIMP further along the road. It will beused in GEGL's own UI soon enough.
While we do maintain the 2.10.x branch and include new features from themaster branch, our full attention really goes to development of what willbecome GIMP 3.0. We are considering the release of 2.99.2 in the nextfew months to pave the way for regular alpha/beta releases leading upto a major update of GIMP.
For the time being, don't forget you can donate to the project and personallyfund several GIMP developers, as a way to giveback and to accelerate GIMP development.
GIMP Fx-Foundry as the name suggests a foundry for graphics. It is a huge knapsack of 100+ image processing scripts. Each of these scripts adds an individual feature to work with the GIMP. To be honest, FX-Foundry is a whole suite of plug-ins in itself. The number of scripts in this pack is so large that I doubt anybody will use all of these GIMP scripts in the whole life.
Now, the collection of scripts is very large and we cannot talk about all of them so, we are going to talk about the few we use most often. We've found the Photo and Layer very useful, but here we are going to talk about only the ones listed under the Photo. Let's get started.
GIMP 2.10.14 arrives with bugfixes and various enhancements.
Mac OS X 10.8.x Mountain Lion: GIMP 2.8.2 for Mountain Lion Mac OS X 10.6.x Snow Leopard & 10.7.x Lion – 64 bit: GIMP 2.8.2 for Snow Leopard & Lion Mac OS X 10.6.x Snow Leopard – 32 bit: GIMP 2.8.2 for Snow Leopard. GIMP access on Mac Open Finder, locate the gimp dmg file, and then just hold the control key when you click on the Gimp dmg, and click open. It will then allow you to install/open gimp without disabling any security settings. GIMP Fx-Foundry as the name suggests a foundry for graphics. It is a huge knapsack of 100+ image processing scripts. Each of these scripts adds an individual feature to work with the GIMP. GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. The GIMP is suitable for a variety of image manipulation tasks, including photo retouching, image composition, and image construction. GIMP has many capabilities. You may want to check out more software for Mac, such as GimpPainter, Seashore or Pixen, which might be similar to Gimp.
Here are release highlights:
- Basic out-of-canvas pixels viewing and editing
- Optional editing of layers with disabled visibility
- Foreground Select tool: new Grayscale Preview Mode
- Newly added Normal Map filter
- 27 old filters ported to use GEGL buffers
- HEIF, TIFF, and PDF support improvements
- Better loading of corrupted XCF files
- Grayscale workflows order of magnitude faster
- macOS Catalina compatibility
- 45 bugfixes, 22 translation updates
Not being able to view and edit data outside the canvas boundary used to bea deal breaker in quite a few use cases. So this is going to be a bit ofa breakthrough moment for quite a few users.
This is what has changed:
- There is now a new Show All mode accessible via the View menu thatreveals all pixels outside the canvas boundary.
- This mode uses alpha checkerboard for canvas padding, but you can configureGIMP to temporarily or permanently use the usual padding color instead.
- You can also enable canvas boundary cue display (dotted red line).
- Color- and patch-picking, bucket-filling, and transforming now works outsidethe canvas. Which means you can crop past the canvas boundary or pick a sourcepatch from outside the canvas area to heal an area inside the canvas.
This is basically the first shot at the previously missing feature set,so expect more to land to GIMP at some point in the future. Making selectiontools work outside the canvas sounds like a sensible next stop. Then maybe wecan seriously talk about boundless canvas.
Most of the work on this was done by Ell.
This new feature is closely related to out-of-canvas viewing and editingand was also contributed by Ell.
Now when you e.g. rotate a single-layer image, you can use this transformtype to automatically expand the canvas to include all of rotated pixelswhen using the default Adjust clipping mode. The switch is right nextto layer/path/selection toggle at the top of any transform tool's settings.
It's complemented by a new Image > Transform > Arbitrary Rotation… menuentry, which activates the rotate tool in the Image mode.
The result of some filters can be larger than the original layer. A very commonexample is Drop Shadow, which adds a shadow at an offset to the layer. Suchfilters are no longer clipped to the layer boundary by default. Instead, thelayer is automatically resized as necessary when the filter is applied.
This behavior can be toggled through the new Clipping option in the filter dialog.
There is now a global toggle to enable the editing of layers with disabledvisibility (the eye icon in the layers docker). There was somedemand for it from users,and it was easy to do, so a new contributor, woob, added this feature.
The Free Select tool received further usability improvements. https://xktvxx.over-blog.com/2021/01/mercedes-benz-c180-2016-user-manual.html. It now supportsusing Alt+drag to quickly move, cut, and copy the selection, without having tocommit the selection first, similarly to the rest of the selection tools.
Thomas Manni contributed a new Grayscale preview mode to theForeground Select tool, which allows seeing the resulting mask in blackand white. The usual preview mode is now called Color and choosing thecolor and opacity for the mask instead of imposing only 4 colors (red, green,blue, grey).
The Feather Selection dialog has a new Selected areas continue outsidethe image toggle, working similarly to the corresponding option in the ShrinkSelection and Border Selection dialogs. This option affects the borderbehavior of the operation: when toggled, selected areas along the image borderare assumed to continue past the image bounds, and are therefore not affected bythe feather.
Thanks to Ell, GIMP is now shipping with a simple Normal Map filter(Filters > Generic) that generates normal maps from height maps. This isearly initial work, a lot more is expected to be done.
GIMP now provides direct access to more GEGL filters:
- Bayer Matrix (for ordered dithering) and Linear Sinusoid (useful forhalftoning), also both created by Ell, are in the Filters > Render > Pattern menu.
- Newsprint (Filters > Distorts), by Øyvind Kolås, is a GEGL version ofthe old GIMP filter for halftoning, plus quite a few extras.
- Mean Curvature Blur, by Thomas Manni, can be helpful to do edge-preserving blurring.
Also, more GEGL-based filters with on-canvas preview have replaced old GIMPcounterparts: Neon (Filters > Edge-Detect), Stretch Contrast (Colors > Auto), and Oilify (Filters > Artistic).
Moreover, Michael Natterer did a simple 8-bit per channel port of 27 olderfilters to use GEGL buffers (they are still GIMP filters, not GEGL operations).Another filter, Van Gogh, got higher bit depth support (up to 32bpc float).
GIMP now supports ICC profiles in HEIF images at both loading and exportingtime when built with libheif v1.4.0 and newer. The exporting dialog alsofeatures a new 'Save color profile' checkbox.
The TIFF importer now asks how to process unspecified TIFF channels: use asnon-premultiplied alpha (used to be the default), as premultiplied alpha,or just import as a generic channel. This fixes a known bug with 4-channel(RGBA) TIFF files as demonstrated here.
Finally, the PDF exporter was fixed by Lionel to export text layers insidelayer groups as text correctly.
XCF loading is now a bit more resilient to corruption: it doesn't stop anymore at the first layer or channel error; instead it tries to load morelayers/channels to salvage as much data as possible from a corrupted XCF file.
Alex Samorukov introduced various improvements to the macOS build of GIMP.
First and foremost, GIMP is now compatible with macOS Catalina and doesn't havethe file permission issue that the 2.10.12 build had.
Secondly, the DMG will now open a window with an Applications
shortcut that explains how to install it.He also added some fixes for command line users.
Finally, Alex built the new version with updated 3rd party components.Among other things, this means support for color profiles in HEIF/HEIC files.
Gitlab CI for GIMP now has a job building GIMP for Windows. It iscurrently set up to make builds of the master branch only(will eventually become GIMP 3.0).
To download a build:
- Go to the Jobs section.
- Find a job with the ‘gimp-x86_64-w64-mingw32-meson' name.
- Click ‘Download artifacts' button to the right of the name.
- Unpack the archive.
- The binary
gimp-2.99.exe
is found undergimp-prefixbin
, though you might have to rungimp-wrapper.cmd
instead.
The build was set up by Jehan.
⚠️ Please note that we don't recommend using the master branch forproduction! This is mostly for testing purposes. ⚠️
As usual, a complete list of changes is available in theNEWS file. Curio 9 4 5 – brainstorming and project management app. Startingwith this release, NEWS also features the list of all code and translation conbtributors.
We also thank frogonia, nmat, Michael Schumacher, and everyone else who helps ustriaging bug reports and providing technical support to end-users.
Installer Gimp Pour Mac
GEGL and babl¶
Both babl and GEGL have been ported to the Meson build system and now useGitlab CI for continuous integration. This has little significance forend-users but makes developers' life easier in many ways.
There has been a ton of other changes and improvements in GEGL since theprevious release. Here are some of the most interesting ones.
GEGL now makes a better use of available CPU cores on more operationsthanks to newly added dynamic computation of per-operation thread cost.
The built-in GEGLUI has superceded the older built-in ‘gcut' video editor,so the latter is now removed. Playing back video has been improved: GEGLnow uses nearest neighbor interpolation while decoding for realtime playbackof HD video content, it now also uses frame cache for rendered video frames.
Moreover, you can now also use external file managers to drag and cropcontent into collections. See the updated NEWS filefor more details.
As for babl, it now supports Yu'v' (CIE 1976 UCS) color model, handlesgrayscale ICC color profiles, and uses AVX2 acceleration for somelinear-to-float conversions.
Alpha handling in babl has been slightly revamped. The library is now using theterms ‘associated alpha' and ‘separate alpha', all of nonpremultiplied-,premultiplied- and nonassociated- alpha are now considered deprecated API.Conversions between associated and separate alpha have been dramatically improved.
Øyvind Kolås has a plan to add a per-image associated/separate alpha switch toGIMP's menu once another batch of code changes by Michael Natterer lands to themaster branch.
Here is a lightning talk at CCC where Øyvind investigates the data loss incurredby going separate alpha -> associated -> separate
orassociated -> separate -> associated
and discovers that the special casedtransparent/emissive cases end up lossless:
Øyvind also iterated on new conversions in babl that cover grayscale in allprecisions supported by GIMP for some things, this means that working ingrayscale is an order of magnitude faster than it was before the last babl release.
See here for moreinformation on the latest release.
Another new project worth mentioning is ctx,also by Øyvind Kolås. It's an API inspired by Cairo and HTML5 canvas' 2Drendering context. It works on 32-bit microcontrollers like ESP32 andARM-CortexM4, and is devised to scale to networked/remote and threaded software rendering.
The ctx library already has support for floating point pixel formats, andthat support is geared to end up generic for gray, RGB, CMYK and othermulti-component formats. The latter is one of the things we've beenmissing in Cairo.
So this is a very interesting projectthat we might consider using for GIMP further along the road. It will beused in GEGL's own UI soon enough.
While we do maintain the 2.10.x branch and include new features from themaster branch, our full attention really goes to development of what willbecome GIMP 3.0. We are considering the release of 2.99.2 in the nextfew months to pave the way for regular alpha/beta releases leading upto a major update of GIMP.
For the time being, don't forget you can donate to the project and personallyfund several GIMP developers, as a way to giveback and to accelerate GIMP development.
GIMP Fx-Foundry as the name suggests a foundry for graphics. It is a huge knapsack of 100+ image processing scripts. Each of these scripts adds an individual feature to work with the GIMP. To be honest, FX-Foundry is a whole suite of plug-ins in itself. The number of scripts in this pack is so large that I doubt anybody will use all of these GIMP scripts in the whole life.
Now, the collection of scripts is very large and we cannot talk about all of them so, we are going to talk about the few we use most often. We've found the Photo and Layer very useful, but here we are going to talk about only the ones listed under the Photo. Let's get started.
How to Install GIMP Fx-Foundry for Windows
Installing Fx-Foundry is like a piece of cake. You do not have to touch the settings to install it. All you need to do is,
Step 1: Download GIMP Fx-Foundary from here.
Step 2: A zip file will be downloaded. Unzip it and extract the files out.
Step 3: Copy the extracted files to C:/users/'username'/.gimp-2.8/scripts.
Step 4: Restart GIMP letting the changes to take place. A new menu 'Fx-Foundary' should be available now.
How to Install GIMP Fx-Foundry for Linux
Step 1: Download GIMP Fx-Foundary from here.
Step 2: A zip file will be downloaded. Copy the zip to /home/'username'/.gimp-2.8/scripts.
Step 3: Unzip it and extract the files out. Select all files and right-click > properties > permissions.
Step 4: Set Permissions as required for particular user/group, to 'read and write' and tick the checkbox 'allow executing file as program'.
Step 5: Restart GIMP letting the changes to take place.
This is all, a new menu option will appear in the main menu once you restart or open the GIMP. After downloading let's now talk about the feature list. Here it is
This list is not just a wide list but also very handy. Since we cannot talk about all of them so let's come straight to the ones we are going to talk about. The photo menu offers a wide list of effects to help you transform your photos into the most desired ones. There are a number of effects you could add to your image and I must say, if you are to explore them all, you might need days!!! Let's simplify it for you and talk about the few we liked the most.
Bercovich Lomo
This is a type of Lomo Effect that converts photographs by adding a bit of contrast, brightness and color tone into the photo making it appear a little brighter and color-rich. It provides the image a new and a better look.
In its dialogue box, you could select the amount of fringe offset i.e. how much of frame you want to add to your image. You can also select whether you want to boost fringe by making the frame appear more wide and clear or not.
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LOMO Effect
LOMO Effect like the Bercovich Lomo adds a new effect providing the image a changed look. Messenger for you. This effect as the name suggests very similar to the Bercovich Lomo but still differs in many ways.
In the dialogue box of LOMO effect, you could choose if you want to work on the same image or on the copy. Also, you can flatten your image if you want to.
Bercovich Lomo vs LOMO Effect
Now, there are two LOMO Effects in the list. Let's find out how they are different from each other.
The difference is very evident and observable as Bercovich Lomo adds a lighter color with more brightness whereas LOMO Effect adds a darker color with more contrast and comparatively lesser brightness.
Black and White Photo
This effect converts your colored image into black and white. This is a very basic effect with the help of which you can drain out all the colors from your image making it look more of black and white.
In this effect, you can manually select the darkness, contrast, and mottle providing your image the desired look. Darken, makes your image dark, Contrast helps you to add contrast to your image and Mottle removes colors from your image making it look a bit more stained or old. You can also remove focus from your image by ticking the Defocus check box.
Cross Light
It is a kind of effect that adds light to your image. It makes the light falling on your image scatter making the area with light falling on it to glow.
You can adjust the length of light falling, start angle of the light, number of lights falling on the image etc. You can also adjust the threshold of light falling on your image.
Cross Processing Effect
Cross Processing is a type of effect that helps you to overcast a color over your image. You can select the color you want to overcast according to your choice. So, it is a very helpful tool if you want to tweak the colors of your image.
It offers you flexibility to choose the color of the overlay. You can also select if you want to flatten your image or not. It also provides you the freedom to work on the same image or on the copy.
Diffusion Filter
Diffusion Filter adds a very nice effect into the image. It smoothens the image and makes it look more like wedding image. This effect adds a filter to the image and makes your image look a bit hazier.
In this effect, you can adjust the radius, level, and intensity of your effect and you can tick the checkbox in front of negative if you want to add a negative like effect into your image i.e. it darkens your image a bit making it appear like it is a negative of a photograph.
Eg Black and White
This is another effect to make your image look black and white. This effect automatically converts your image black and white and you do not have to manually adjust any aspect of your image.
In its dialogue box, it offers you an option to choose which black and white conversion you want to use. There are a number of black and white conversions like B&W + Red Filter, B&W (GIMP), B&W (Channel Mixer) etc listed in the dropdown. You can select any one according to your preferences.
Eg Duotone Simulation
As the name suggests Eg Duotone Simulation provides the image a dual tone. This is mostly used to bring middle tones and highlights of an image out.
It helps you to color your image in two tones and also allows you to choose the second color of your choice. In the dialogue box, it offers you to select the tone, opacity, and color of the simulation. You can also select if you want to flatten or turn your image to black and white.
Eg Infrared Simulation
It is a Photo Effect that overlays the image with an Infrared layer. It adds a layer of Infrared light over the image and makes it look more like an image with B&W + Red Filter.
In its dialogue box, it offers you options to adjust the IR layer opacity, contrast of the IR layer. Also, it provides you options to blur and flatten your image if you want to.
Film Grain
Film Grain is a type of effect that adds a film over your image making it look more like solid. It adds a texture like a grain of wood or stone over the image and makes it appear like it has been carved out of stone or wood.
It offers you to adjust your Grain Size, Blur Amount and a Midpoint of the effect. You can also add a layer mask to your image if you want to.
Make Wonderful
Make Wonderful is a type of effect that adds a blurry and whitish effect to the image. It makes your image look very bright but proportionally blur thus making the image vague.
In the dialogue box, it offers you options like Flou which makes your image blur, Luminosite which adds brightness to the image and Contraste which adds contrast to your image. You can adjust these aspects accordingly to make your image suit your taste. Also, you can flatten your image by checking the box against Aplatir l'image.
Midnight Sepia
Sepia, as the name suggest, adds a reddish brown color into your image. It saturates the color completely into the image and makes it appear like it has been taken like that only. It makes the image look like as it has been taken in the moonlight during the night.
In its dialogue box, you can adjust hue, saturation, lightness, opacity and color according to your taste.You can also select if you want to flatten, desaturate your image.
Old Photo
This effect makes your image look like it has been taken in the old times. It makes the image look old. Not only this it extracts out the colors from the image and makes it appear a little dull or stained.
It offers you options to use Borders, Sepia, Defocus and Mottle into your image. You could also adjust the Mottle size and border size of your image according to your taste.
Roy Lichtenstein
This effect makes your images look more like they are printed in a newspaper. The image appears more like color deficient printed on a bad quality of paper.
It has a very large dialogue box with a plenty of options like Base Layer Opacity, Contrast, NewsPrint Effect etc. You can change these option settings to explore more of this effect.
Sepia Toning
Well, to be frank, I could not access this effect as every time I tried using it this error message got flashed.
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Simple Duotone
Simple Duotone is very similar to Eg Duotone Simulation. It provides your image a dual tone look but this time the toning is a bit more automated or you can say a bit less manual. You just have to select the second color, rest is managed automatically by the tool.
In its dialogue box, you get options like tint color and flatten image etc. https://zichloodifa1975.mystrikingly.com/blog/wirecast-pro-12-1-17. You do not need to adjust any other aspects of the effect, just the color you want to tone your image with.
Soft Focus
This effect adds a soft focus to your image. It blurs your image making it a little foggy. It softens your image and makes it appear a bit more dreamy or dusky.
In its dialogue box, you will get an option to adjust the blur amount on a scale between 1-100.
Tone Mapping
Tone Mapping helps you to adjust the tone of your image by adjusting the color combination, brightness and contrast of your image making it appear more like eye pleasing. It adjusts all of these aspects automatically and you need not adjust them manually.
In its dialogue box, you get options to adjust the opacity of the tone. You can adjust the amount by which you want to blur your image on a scale from 100-500.
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Vintage Film Effect
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Vintage Film Effect is a type of effect that makes your image look more like a Vintage Image. This effect makes the image look more like an old but valuable property. This effect makes an image a little dull and mottled.
In its dialogue box, you can select whether you want to flatten your image or not. You do not have to tweak any settings to apply this effect to your image, everything is managed by the tool itself.
These are the effects you are going to find under the Photo Menu. All of these have their uniqueness and different use. Thus, I must say GIMP Fx-Foundry is a huge pack or rather a complete repository of image processing scripts that adds a lot of functionality to work with GIMP.
In this article, I tried explaining all the photo effects you get with GIMP Fx-Foundry. If you still have any ambiguity, questions or even the suggestions, feel free to reach us through our comments section below.