#gimp plugin

you get it here and there are instructions for installation and usage here

SIMS 4 TOPAZ CLEAN FOR GIMP TUTORIAL

THIS TUTORIAL IS OUTDATED AND DOESN’T WORK ANYMORE!!

As wished, here’s a tutorial on how to get Topaz Clean ( and the other Topaz’ ) for Gimp!

Currently this doesn’t work for mac computers ( i think, don’t quote me on that lmao )

What you’ll need:

- Gimp ( i think most versions work with this tutorial, but i’m not 100% sure )

- Photoshop plugin for Gimp

- Topaz Clean ( or any other Topaz you’d like )

- Keys for the individual Topaz’

1. Download and install Gimp and Topaz Clean

2. Download the Photoshop plugin for Gimp

- Go to ‘downloads’ in your files and open the zip file

- Then from the unzipped file go to ‘lib > gimp > 2.0 > plug-ins >’

- Open up a new files window ( or just cut the file called ‘pspi.exe’ )

3. Put the ‘pspi.exe’ file into Gimp

- In the new files window go to ‘computer > local disk > programs > GIMP 2 > lib > gimp > 2.0 > plug-ins’ and paste or drag the ‘pspi.exe’ file into the folder!

4. Insert the Topaz Clean file into Gimp

- Open Gimp and go to ‘filters > Photoshop Plug-in Settings’

- Add a directory, click the file icon ( the red button should be visable now )

- Click the folder icon, then the Topaz file should be under ‘local disk > programs > Topaz Labs > Topaz Clean 3 > plugins’ and then press okay

- If the ‘Topaz Labs’ file doesn’t show up in the programs folder, it might be in the ‘programs(x86)’ folder

- Now the button should be green and there should be a new directory to the Topaz file!

5. Test Topaz Clean out!

- Restart Gimp, and go to ‘filters > Topaz Labs > Topaz Clean’ and it should open up a new window

- Here you put in the key i provided in top of this post, and now you’re ready to clean up your Gimp images!

ALSO REMEMBER TO DISABLE THE ALPHA LAYER BEFORE RUNNING THE TOPAZ CLEAN ! YOUR PICTURE WILL DISAPPEAR IF YOU DONT DO IT !

Here are my settings if any of you were interested:

- I use two filters, i use my own smooth setting:

- And/or @dustflwrfinds​ ( can’t tag your main account ) Topaz Settings

- And/or @staywithsims​ Topaz Settings

Here’s a free GIMP plugin for people who want to make dictionary-entry graphics without manually placing & spacing every text element perfectly.

It supports separate fonts for the headword, phonetic text, part of speech, definition, & etymology.

I've written several plugins for GIMP using GIMP-Python over time. I have just put these up on Github.

The newest of these is 'copynauto', which provides a two-key interface to GIMP's Named Buffers. It makes it easy to collect clippings from many images, tracking where they came from, and dispense them quickly where you want them in your layer structure.

In my case, I have 'copy autonamed' and 'paste latest named and delete' assigned to adjacent numeric keys (2 and 3). When I want to take a clipping, I make my selection with Rectangle tool, hit 2, and the clipping is stored (with a name indicating where it came from). I will do this several times in a row, especially if a single image contains multiple things I want to get clippings of.

Then when I want to place those clippings in the destination image, I select the layer I want to paste above, hit 3, and the latest clipping is placed there (and removed from the list of clippings). I will do this repeatedly too, until there are no more clippings I need to place. Layer names will be taken directly from clipping names, so tracking down sources is easy.

If I lose track of where I was, I bring up GIMP's Buffers dockable, which lists all named buffers.

Okay, tutorial over :)

I'll finish with a synopsis of the plugins that can currently be found in my repository:

applylayer : Iteratively 'apply paint' - merges down the content in a layer/group and then clears the content in it (without actually removing the layers themselves)

backgroundify : Add a background color/pattern to (part of) one or all layers

copynauto : Fast interface to automatically-named GIMP Named Buffers, for collaging. Quickly accumulate a set of clippings and then dispense them.

generate_colorband : Color analysis. Attempts to find and intelligently group N colors representing the layer, producing a 'color band' similar to the output of Smooth Palette. Really SLOW.

palette_to_layer_pixels : Allows editing palettes via image color operators like Curves, by.. transferring them into and out of layers.

select_layers : 'Grep' for layers. Removes layers that do/don't match a glob or Python regexp pattern.

I've written several plugins for GIMP using GIMP-Python over time. I have just put these up on Github.

The newest of these is 'copynauto', which provides a two-key interface to GIMP's Named Buffers. It makes it easy to collect clippings from many images, tracking where they came from, and dispense them quickly where you want them in your layer structure.

In my case, I have 'copy autonamed' and 'paste latest named and delete' assigned to adjacent numeric keys (2 and 3). When I want to take a clipping, I make my selection with Rectangle tool, hit 2, and the clipping is stored (with a name indicating where it came from). I will do this several times in a row, especially if a single image contains multiple things I want to get clippings of.

Then when I want to place those clippings in the destination image, I select the layer I want to paste above, hit 3, and the latest clipping is placed there (and removed from the list of clippings). I will do this repeatedly too, until there are no more clippings I need to place. Layer names will be taken directly from clipping names, so tracking down sources is easy.

If I lose track of where I was, I bring up GIMP's Buffers dockable, which lists all named buffers.

Okay, tutorial over :)

I'll finish with a synopsis of the plugins that can currently be found in my repository:

applylayer : Iteratively 'apply paint' - merges down the content in a layer/group and then clears the content in it (without actually removing the layers themselves)

backgroundify : Add a background color/pattern to (part of) one or all layers

copynauto : Fast interface to automatically-named GIMP Named Buffers, for collaging. Quickly accumulate a set of clippings and then dispense them.

generate_colorband : Color analysis. Attempts to find and intelligently group N colors representing the layer, producing a 'color band' similar to the output of Smooth Palette. Really SLOW.

palette_to_layer_pixels : Allows editing palettes via image color operators like Curves, by.. transferring them into and out of layers.

select_layers : 'Grep' for layers. Removes layers that do/don't match a glob or Python regexp pattern.

I posted some pictures about a filter I implemented to reduce those annoying changes in shading when taking photos of your line drawings (http://sibaku.tumblr.com/post/105012775655/illumination-correction-filter-i-usually)

I wanted to get it running on Windows, but C based plugins for Windows are horrible, at least getting them to run is. I managed to compile them but they crash... and I didn't want to spend more time on it...

Soooo I rewrote and extended it in Python. Which should run on all systems

You can get the plugin here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26437043/plugin/shadingEqualization.py

You only have to copy it into your gimp plugin folder (The main folder is located probably at your user folder. For more information see google or so, shouldn't be hard to find)

It will then be available at Filter->Enhance->Shading equalization

Probably the best way is to use the default strength value of 9

BTW, your image will be converted to grayscale

Only thing to beware of is: Python is really really slow for this kind of computation. The more or less straight port from C did slow it down like 10 times. I did some optimization and trickery to boost it a bit, but it's still below the unoptimized C code. An image about the size of 1000*1000 takes about 10-20 seconds (the unoptimized code was about 50 and did less). 2-3000 pixel images can take around 1-2minutes, so keep that in mind. Not sure if I can get that much more speed out of python without any 3rd party libraries such as numpy. But it works nice, so I think its alright. You usually don't need sketches in overly high resolutions.

This is an example image

This is the image after filtering

After this step, you can easily adjust the contrast/brightness or curves or something else to achieve the desired result. I chose not to try some automatic stuff, so everyone can tweak it to their liking. Here is the final result

The images you'll see now show the original on the left. My usual approach is fiddling around with curves until it looks ok, that is displayed in the middle. On the right side, the result of the new filter with some very simple curve manipulations are shown.

For some more examples, see below the fold :)

I've tried downloading a few different plugins I found via google searches.  I'm not sure if I'm not installing them right, or if they just don't work.  I can't seem to open DDS files.