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The Gimp by Menu functions

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<Image>

Edit  Copy to Clipboard copy image to clipboard
Paste from Clipboard paste image from clipboard
Copy Visible Copy the visible selction

File  Guash Thumbnail-based directory browser
Page Setup This plug-in sets up the page for printing from the GIMP.
Print This plug-in prints images from the GIMP.

Filters  Filter all Layers... This plugin calls another plugin for each layer of an image, varying its settings (to produce animated effects). The called plugin must work on a single drawable and must be able to GIMP_RUN_WITH_LAST_VALS
User Filter User Filter

Layers  Align Visible Layers... Align visible layers

Python-Fu  Separate Colors ... Splits the RGB Black information into separate channels

Select  To Path Converts a selection to a path

Video  Delete Frames... This plugin deletes the given number of frames from disk including the current frame.
Duplicate Frames... This plugin duplicates the current frames on disk n-times.
Exchange Frame... This plugin exchanges content of the current with destination frame.
Frames Convert... This plugin converts the given range of frame-images to other fileformats (on disk) depending on extension
Frames Crop... This plugin crops all anim_frames (images on disk) to the given new_width/new_height
Frames Flatten... This plugin flattens the given range of frame-images (on disk)
Frames LayerDel... This plugin deletes one layer in the given range of frame-images (on disk). exception: the last remaining layer of a frame is not deleted
Frames Modify... This plugin performs a modifying action on each selected layer in each selected framerange
Frames Resize... This plugin resizes all anim_frames (images on disk) to the given new_width/new_height
Frames Scale... This plugin scales all anim_frames (images on disk) to the given new_width/new_height
Frames to Image... This plugin creates a new image from the given range of frame-images. Each frame is converted to one layer in the new image, according to flatten_mode. (the frames on disk are not changed).
Framesequence Shift... This plugin exchanges frame numbers in the given range. (discfile frame_0001.xcf is renamed to frame_0002.xcf, 2->3, 3->4 ... n->1)
Move Path... This plugin copies layer(s) from one sourceimage to multiple frames on disk, varying position, size and opacity.
Split Image to Frames... This plugin splits the current image to anim frames (images on disk). Each layer is saved as one frame

<Image>/Filters

Animation  Animation Optimize This plugin applies various optimizations to a GIMP layer-based animation.
Animation Playback... This plugin allows you to preview a GIMP layer-based animation.
Animation UnOptimize This plugin 'simplifies' a GIMP layer-based animation that has been AnimationOptimized. This makes the animation much easier to work with if, for example, the optimized version is all you have.

Artistic  Apply Canvas... Adds a canvas texture map to the picture
Cubism... Convert the input drawable into a collection of rotated squares
GIMPressionist... Performs various artistic operations on an image
Oilify... Modify the specified drawable to resemble an oil painting

Blur  Antialias Smooths stair-step edges.
Blur... Apply a 3x3 blurring convolution kernel to the specified drawable.
Gaussian Blur (IIR)... Applies a gaussian blur to the specified drawable.
Gaussian Blur (RLE)... Applies a gaussian blur to the specified drawable.
Motion Blur... Motion blur of image
Pixelize... Pixelize the contents of the specified drawable
Selective Gaussian Blur Applies a selective gaussian blur to the specified drawable.
Tileable Blur... Blurs image edges so that the final result tiles seamlessly

Colors  Border Average... Borderaverage
Color To Alpha Convert the color in an image to alpha
Colorify... Similar to the "Color" mode for layers.
Hot... Look for hot NTSC or PAL pixels
Max RGB... Return an image in which each pixel holds only the channel that has the maximum value in three (red, green, blue) channels, and other channels are zero-cleared
RGB Displace RGB Transformation Plug-In
Semi-Flatten Flatten pixels in an RGBA image that aren't completely transparent against the current GIMP background color
Smooth Palette... derive smooth palette from image
VC-Dither Dithers a channel to a reduced number of levels. Esp. useful for creating B/W-Images or dithering the alpha-channel.
Value Invert Invert the 'value' component of an indexed/RGB image in HSV colorspace

Combine  Depth Merge... Combine two images using corresponding depth maps (z-buffers)
Film... Compose several images to a roll film

Distorts  Blinds... Adds a blinds effect to the image. Rather like putting the image on a set of window blinds and the closing or opening the blinds
Conical Anamorphose Apply an anamorphose effect
CurveBend... Bends a layer using 2 spline-curves
Emboss... Emboss filter
Engrave... Engrave the contents of the specified drawable
IWarp... Interactive warping of the specified drawable
Kaleidoscope Simulate looking at an image thru a kaleidoscope
Newsprint... Re-sample the image to give a newspaper-like effect
Pagecurl... Pagecurl effect
Polar Coords... Converts and image to and from polar coords
Ripple... Ripple the contents of the specified drawable
Shift... Shift the contents of the specified drawable
Value Propagate... Propagate values of the layer
Video... Apply low-dotpitch RGB simulation to the specified drawable
Waves... Distort the image with waves
Whirl and Pinch... Distort an image by whirling and pinching
Wind... Renders a wind effect.

Edge-Detect  Edge... Perform edge detection on the contents of the specified drawable
Laplace Edge Detection with Laplace Operation
LoG Apply the LoG filter
Sobel... Edge Detection with Sobel Operation

Enhance  Deinterlace... Deinterlace
Despeckle... Despeckle filter, typically used to 'despeckle' a photographic image.
Destripe... Destripe filter, used to remove vertical stripes caused by cheap scanners.
Homogenize... Remove very low frequencies (eg gradients) in image
NL Filter... Nonlinear swiss army knife filter
Sharpen... Sharpen filter, typically used to 'sharpen' a photographic image.
Unsharp Mask... An unsharp mask filter

Generic  Convolution Matrix... A generic 5x5 convolution matrix
Math Merge ... merges two images mathematically

Glass Effects  Apply Lens... Apply a lens effect
Glass Tile... Divide the image into square glassblocks

Image Processing  Closing A grey-scale morphological closing.
Dilate A grey-scale morphological dilation.
Erode A grey-scale morphological erotion.
Opening A grey-scale morphological opening.

Light Effects  FlareFX... Add lens flare effects
GFlare... Produce lense flare effect using custom gradients
Lighting Effects... Apply various lighting effects to an image
Sparkle... Simulates pixel bloom and diffraction effects
SuperNova... Produce Supernova effect to the specified drawable

Map  Bump Map... Create an embossing effect using an image as a bump map
Displace... Displace the contents of the specified drawable
Fractal Trace... transform image with the Mandelbrot Fractal
Illusion... produce illusion
Make Seamless Seamless tile creation
Map Object... Maps a picture to a object (plane, sphere, box or cylinder)
Paper Tile... Cuts an image into paper tiles, and slides each paper tile.
Small Tiles... Tiles image into smaller versions of the orginal
Tile... Create a new image which is a tiled version of the input drawable
Van Gogh (LIC)... Creates a Van Gogh effect (Line Integral Convolution)

Noise  Hurl... Add a random factor to the image by hurling random data at it.
Noisify... Adds random noise to a drawable's channels
Pick... Add a random factor to the image by picking a random adjacent pixel.
Scatter HSV... Scattering pixel values in HSV space
Slur... Add a random factor to the image by slurring (similar to melting).
Spread... Spread the contents of the specified drawable

Pan Controls  Apply Changes Pan
Get Panorama Pan
Increment Pan
Move Left Pan
Move Right Pan
Tilt Down Pan
Tilt Up Pan
Zoom In Pan
Zoom Out Pan

Panorama Tools  Adjust Insert/Extract Image into/from Panorama
Correct Correct Scanned Photographs
Perspective Software Shift Lens
Remap Change Projection

Render  Dynamic Text... GIMP Dynamic Text
Gfig... Create Geometrical shapes with the Gimp
Magic Eye Create a stereogram
Sinus... Generates a texture with sinus functions
Sphere Designer... Renders textures spheres

Web  ImageMap... Creates a clickable imagemap.

<Image>/Filters/Colors

Map  Adjust FG-BG Adjust color range given by foreground/background color to black/white
Alien Map 2... AlienMap2 Color Transformation Plug-In
Alien Map... AlienMap Color Transformation Plug-In
Color Exchange... Color Exchange
Color Range Mapping... Map color range specified by two colorsto color range specified by two other color.
Gradient Map Map the contents of the specified drawable with active gradient
Sample Colorize... Colorize the contents of the specified drawable similar to sample drawable

<Image>/Filters/Render

Clouds  Plasma... Create a plasma cloud like image to the specified drawable
Solid Noise... Creates a grayscale noise texture

Nature  Flame... Creates cosmic recursive fractal flames
IfsCompose... Create an Iterated Function System Fractal

Pattern  CML Explorer... Make an image of Coupled-Map Lattice
Checkerboard... Adds a checkerboard pattern to an image
Diffraction Patterns... Generate diffraction patterns
Fractal Explorer... Chaos Fractal Explorer Plug-In
Grid... Draws a grid.
Jigsaw... Renders a jigsaw puzzle look
Maze... Draws a maze.
Mosaic... Convert the input drawable into a collection of tiles
Qbist... Create images based on a random genetic formula

<Image>/Image

Alpha  Threshold Alpha... 

Colors  Adaptive Contrast Adaptive Contrast Enhancement
Colorcube analysis Colorcube analysis
Colormap Rotation... Colormap rotation as in xv
Filter Pack... Allows the user to change H, S, or C with many previews

Mode  Compose... Compose an image from multiple gray images
Decompose... Decompose an image into different types of channels

Transforms  Autocrop Automagically crops a picture.
Guillotine Slice up the image into subimages, cutting along the image's Guides. Fooey to you and your broccoli, Pokey.
Zealous Crop Automagically crops unused space from the edges and middle of a picture.

<Image>/Image/Colors

Auto  Normalize Normalize the contrast of the specified drawable to cover all possible ranges.
Stretch Contrast Automatically stretch the contrast of the specified drawable to cover all possible ranges.
Stretch HSV Automatically stretch the contrast of the specified drawable to cover all possible ranges.

<Image>/Image/Transforms

Rotate  180 degrees Rotates the given image 180 degrees.
270 degrees Rotates the given image 270 degrees clockwise.
90 degrees Rotates the given image 90 degrees clockwise.

<Image>/Layers

Rotate  180 degrees Rotates the given layer 180 degrees.
270 degrees Rotates the given layer 270 degrees clockwise.
90 degrees Rotates the given layer 90 degrees clockwise.

Transforms  Perspective This plugin calls gimp_perspective (scale all 4 corners of the drawable seperately).
Rotate 3D This plugin rotatates a drawable using x/y/z axis. (it calls gimp_rotate and gimp_perspective).
Rotate any angle This plugin calls gimp_rotate (rotate a drawable any angle).
Scale This plugin calls gimp_scale (scale a drawable).
Shear This plugin calls gimp_shear (shear a drawable about its center by specified shear_angle).

<Image>/Python-Fu

Alchemy  Clothify Make the specified layer look like it is printed on cloth

Distorts  Whirl and Pinch Distorts an image by whirling and pinching

Effects  Add fog Add a layer of fog to the image
Drop Shadow and Bevel Add a drop shadow to a layer, and optionally bevel it.
Pattern ... Creates a possibly overlapping pattern

<Image>/Script-Fu

Alchemy  Clothify... Gives the current layer a cloth-like texture
Erase every other Row... Erase every other row/column with the background color
Predator... Looks like images from the movie Predator
Unsharp Mask... Make a sharp image of IMAGE's DRAWABLE by applying unsharp mask method
Weave... Weave effect like Alien Skin

Alpha to Logo  3D Outline... Creates outlined texts with drop shadow
Alien Glow... Create an X-Files-esque logo with the specified glow color
Alien Neon... Creates a psychedelic effect with outlines of the specified color around the letters
Basic I... Creates a simple logo with a drop shadow
Basic II... Creates a simple logo with a shadow and a highlight
Blended... Creates logos with blended backgrounds, highlights, and shadows
Bovination... Makes Cow-spotted logos
Chalk... Chalk scribbled logos
Chip Away... Chip away effect
Chrome... Somewhat simplistic, but cool chromed logos
Comic Book... Comic-book Style Logos
Cool Metal... Metallic logos with reflections and perspective shadows
Frosty... Frozen logos with drop shadows
Glossy... Creates anything you can create with it :)
Glowing Hot... Glowing hot logos
Gradient Bevel... Makes Shiny Bevelly text
Neon... Neon logos
Particle Trace... Trace of Particles Effect
Starburst... Starburst as inspired by GIMP News
Starscape... Starscape using the Nova plug-in
Textured... Creates textured logos with blended backgrounds, highlights, and shadows

Animators  Blend... Blend two or more layers over a background, so that an animation can be saved
Rippling... Ripple any image by creating animation frames as layers
Spinning Globe... Maps the image on an animated spinning globe
Waves... Animate an image like a stone's been thrown into it

Decor  Add Bevel... Add a bevel to an image
Add Border... Add a border around an image
Coffee Stain... Draws realistic looking coffee stains
Fuzzy Border... Fade border to chosen color
Old Photo... Makes the image look like an old photo
Round Corners... Round the corners of an image and optionally adds a drop-shadow and a background
Slide... Gives the image the look of a slide

Render  Circuit... Fills the current selection with something that looks vaguely like a circuit board.
Lava... Fills the current selection with lava.
Line Nova... Line Nova. Draw lines with Foreground color from the center of image to the edges. 1st undo cancels bucket-fill. 2nd undo gets orignal selection.
Make Grid System... Draw grid as specified by X-DIVIDES (list of propotions relative to the drawable) and Y-DIVIDES. The color and width of grid is detemined by the current settings of brush.

Selection  Distress Selection... No description
Fade Outline... Blend the Layers outline border from one alpha value (opaque) to another (transparent) by generating a Layermask
Round... Rounds the active selection. The selection should be rectangular.
To Brush... Convert a selection to a greyscale brush
To Image Convert a selection to an image

Shadow  Drop-Shadow... Add a drop-shadow of the current selection or alpha-channel
Perspective... Add a perspective shadow
Xach-Effect... Add a subtle translucent 3-d effect to the current selection or alpha channel

Stencil Ops  Carve-It... Use the specified [GRAY] drawable as a stencil to carve from the specified image. The specified image must be either RGB colour or grayscale, not indexed.
Chrome-It... Use the specified [GRAY] drawable as a stencil to run the chrome effect on.

Utils  ASCII to Image Layer... Create a new layer of text from a simple text file
Draw HSV Graph... Draph the graph of H/S/V values on the drawable
Show Image Structure... Show the layer structure of the image

<Image>/Video

Goto  Any Frame... This plugin exchanges current image with requested image (nr) from disk.
First Frame This plugin exchanges current image with (lowest nubered) image from disk.
Last Frame This plugin exchanges current image with (highest nubered) image from disk.
Next Frame This plugin exchanges current image with (next nubered) image from disk.
Previous Frame This plugin exchanges current image with (previous nubered) image from disk.

<Toolbox>

Xtns  DB Browser... List available procedures in the PDB
Guash Thumbnail-based directory browser
Janitor Allows adding displays and layers to images through a semi-useable interface.
Plugin Details... Displays plugin details

<Toolbox>/File

Acquire  From Clipboard Get image from clipboard
Screen Shot... Capture a Win32 window or desktop image
TWAIN... Capture an image from a TWAIN datasource

<Toolbox>/Xtns

Python-Fu  Console Python interactive interpreter with gimp extensions
Import XPM ... Import one or more XPMs
PDB Browser Browse the Procedural Database
PDB To HTML ... Creates documentation in html format
Record ... Records a macro in Python.
Thumbnails ... Creates a thumbnail file.

Script-Fu  Console... Provides a console mode for script-fu development
Refresh Re-read all available scripts

Web Browser  Open URL... open URL in Netscape

<Toolbox>/Xtns/Python-Fu

Misc  Sphere Simple spheres with drop shadows

Web-Tools  AquaButt2 Make a Aqua Style Button V2

<Toolbox>/Xtns/Script-Fu

Buttons  Round Button... Round button
Simple Beveled Button... Simple beveled button

Logos  3D Outline... Creates outlined texts with drop shadow
Alien Glow... Create an X-Files-esque logo with the specified glow color
Alien Neon... Creates a psychedelic effect with outlines of the specified color around the letters
Basic I... Creates a simple logo with a drop shadow
Basic II... Creates a simple logo with a shadow and a highlight
Blended... Creates logos with blended backgrounds, highlights, and shadows
Bovination... Makes Cow-spotted logos
Carved... Carve the text from the specified image. The image will be automatically tiled to accomodate the rendered text string. The "Carve Raised Text" parameter determines whether to carve the text itself, or around the text.
Chalk... Chalk scribbled logos
Chip Away... Chip away effect
Chrome... Somewhat simplistic, but cool chromed logos
Comic Book... Comic-book Style Logos
Cool Metal... Metallic logos with reflections and perspective shadows
Crystal... Crystal/Gel effect which displaces the image underneath
Frosty... Frozen logos with drop shadows
Glossy... Creates anything you can create with it :)
Glowing Hot... Glowing hot logos
Gradient Bevel... Makes Shiny Bevelly text
Imigre-26... Two-colored text by hand
Neon... Neon logos
Newsprint Text... Apply a screen to text
Particle Trace... Trace of Particles Effect
SOTA Chrome... State of the art chromed logos
Speed Text... give text a speedy effect
Starburst... Starburst as inspired by GIMP News
Starscape... Starscape using the Nova plug-in
Text Circle... Render the specified text along the perimeter of a circle
Textured... Creates textured logos with blended backgrounds, highlights, and shadows
Web Title Header... Web title header

Make Brush  Elliptical, Feathered... Makes a feathered elliptical brush of specified size
Elliptical... Create size of brush
Rectangular, Feathered... Create size of brush
Rectangular... Create size of brush

Misc  Sphere... Simple sphere with a drop shadow

Patterns  3D Truchet... 3D Truchet pattern
Camouflage... Camouflage pattern
Flatland... A Land Pattern
Land... A Topgraphic map pattern
Render Map... Another pattern which resembles a map
Swirl-Tile... Create an interesting swirled tile
Swirly (tileable)... Create a swirly pattern
Trochoid... Draw Trochoid Curve
Truchet... Create a Truchet pattern Works best with even sized thicknesses

Test  Sphere... Simple script to test and show the usage of the new Script-Fu API extensions. Note the use of spinbuttons, sliders, the font, pattern, brush and gradient selectors and do not forget the about dialog...

Utils  ASCII to Image... Create a new image containing text from a simple text file
Custom Gradient... Create an example image of a custom gradient
Font Map... Generate a listing of the specified fonts

<Toolbox>/Xtns/Script-Fu/Web Page Themes

Alien Glow  Arrow... Create an X-file deal
Bullet... Create a Bullet with an Alien Glow theme for web pages
Button... Button with an eerie glow
Hrule... Create an Hrule with the Alien Glow look

Beveled Pattern  Arrow... Beveled pattern arrow
Bullet... Beveled pattern bullet
Button... Beveled pattern button
Heading... Beveled pattern heading
Hrule... Beveled pattern hrule

Gimp.Org  Big Header... Big Gimp.org Header
General Tube Labels... Tube Button Label Header for gimp.org
Small Header... Small Gimp.org Header
Tube Button Label... Tube Button Label Header for gimp.org
Tube Sub-Button Label... Tube Button Label Header for gimp.org
Tube Sub-Sub-Button Label... Tube Button Label Header for gimp.org


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