{"id":646118,"date":"2013-03-11T04:54:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T08:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betanews.com\/?p=135447"},"modified":"2013-03-11T04:54:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T08:54:43","slug":"expand-gimps-possibilities-with-gimp-extensions-for-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/646118","title":{"rendered":"Expand GIMP’s possibilities with GIMP Extensions for Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"GIMP is the most powerful free graphics editor around but you can extend it even further with the right extensions. You\u2019ll need to find them first, of course, because GIMP doesn\u2019t have any built-in mechanism to show you what\u2019s available. But if that\u2019s too much trouble then you could always install GIMP Extensions for Windows<\/a>, which gives you more than 50 in a single package.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll get GIMP Paint Studio, for instance, which equips the program with additional brushes, patterns, palettes and more.<\/p>\n

Plugins include Adaptive Contrast Enhancement, BIMP (Batch Image Manipulation Plugin), Cartoonizer, Focus Blur, GIMP Mask, Image Registration, Liquid Rescale, PAL & VHS, and Save for Web.<\/p>\n

Bundled scripts include AnimStack, Fake HDR Effect and Split Studio 3. While GIMP FX Foundry adds more than 100 new options all on its own.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s more file format support (APNG, DDS, JPEG XR, WebP).<\/p>\n

And you even get animation options via GIMP Animation Package. (The full list is available at the GIMP Extensions page<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t have to install all of these, fortunately. If you have some already, or just want to decide for yourself, then the setup tool allows you to select the extensions you need, and the ones you really don\u2019t. Whatever you\u2019ve chosen will then be added to your system with a click.<\/p>\n

Launch GIMP and you\u2019ll probably find it\u2019s now quite slow to start. Much of this is a one-off, though, as GIMP Extensions\u2019<\/a> new tools are installed and initialised. And once the program appears, you can begin exploring its extra powers — the new FX-Foundry menu is a great place to start.<\/p>\n

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GIMP is the most powerful free graphics editor around but you can extend it even further with the right extensions. You\u2019ll need to find them first, of course, because GIMP doesn\u2019t have any built-in mechanism to show you what\u2019s available. But if that\u2019s too much trouble then you could always install GIMP Extensions for Windows, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7429,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}