Layer
Effects for GIMP 2.4
A few years ago Iccii has
written the layer-effects_en.scm script
to simulate in GIMP the effects
of
layer styles. They were written for version 1.
Later they were adapted
for GIMP 2. They did what they were meant to do,
but the execution often went wrong because of two
reasons:
there was no current selection allowed and the layer had to be the same
size as the image.
This version deals with that and it contains a new border-routine.
Also the layers are linked together now.
Everything should be fully reliable (in GIMP 2.2 an 2.4).
Click here to download
this version.
- Just put the script in
C:\Documents and
Settings\YourName\.gimp-2.2\scripts (or
something like that ... if you use Windows)
/home/yourname/.gimp-2.2/scripts (if you use
Linux, ... ) - The next time you start up The GIMP,
you 'll find them in
the main menu in "Script-Fu"
(For those who don't know GIMP: it's the GNU Image
Manipulating
Program; Open Source and reliable (also available for
Windows).
It has all the possibilities you might expect from a graphical program,
(layers, selections, masks, colorblending, ... ) and it's totally free
forever.
Note : there's also a page about photo
effects.
The main possibilities of Layer Effects.
In these examples I've only used text but they can also be
used for drawings. It is possible
to make
combinations of these effects.
Still important :
- the subject has to lay on it's
own transparant layer,
and this has to be the actual layer. Normally It doesn't work on the background.
- If you try to move a subject that
contains layer-masks then
it is
preferrable to make the layers with the masks invisible during that
operation .
Hint
If you use a
small font/drawing, some edges may show incontinuities. This is
due to poor anti-aliasing. In that case you can improve the
result by starting
with a drawing/font at a 200% scale an to downscale it after the use
of the script.
Contact
eddy_verlinden ... hotmail.com
Questions
Learning how to use these
Trial and error, but it's all quite obvious.
The automatic linking of the layers can be put off in the dialogs
Questions about script-fu
You'll
find most information and some tools in the menu The GIMP/Xtra.
(or perhaps Xtns )
Webpages : http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Basic_Scheme/
and http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Basic_Scheme2/
Some info about Sheme itself, although rarely needed http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dorai/t-y-scheme/t-y-scheme-Z-H-1.html
Where to find information about GIMP
(often for GIMP
1, but that's not a major problem)
