GIMP Animation Package (GAP) is another plugin designers might appreciate. If you are to explore all of them, you might need days, but I promise, you won’t get bored. The photo tools offer numerous effects and enhancements – red eye removal, duotone, auto contrast correction, etc. The layer, multilayer, and photo tools are especially interesting because they come with cool functionality, such as mirrors, borders, or multilayer operations, such as copy, scale, crop, transform, edit, or delete layers. Here is a peek into just some of the submenus options included in this pack: I’ve found the photo and layer tools especially useful, but it’s a treasure chest of photo effects. When you download and install FX Foundry, it will appear in the menu to the screenshot to the right. While I can’t claim to have thoroughly tested each and every script, I didn’t hit a single snap in the extensive testing I undertook. Regardless, I had no problems using any of these with my up-to-date GIMP install. The pack in the link hasn’t been updated for GIMP 2.8 – it is for GIMP 2.6.

Nevertheless, it’s good to know you don’t have to download and install them one by one. Regardless, the number of scripts in the FX Foundry pack is still intimidatingly large, and to be honest, I doubt any designer will use all the scripts available in their working life. In fact, in the past the pack has contained as many 150 scripts, but the curators have been sensible in pruning the collection to only the most high-quality, well-maintained tools. There is a very good reason for this: It is a huge mega-pack of more than 100 separate image processing scripts.

FX FoundryįX Foundry is almost certainly the most famous GIMP extension available.

So, here are my 5 great GIMP plugins that most designers should especially appreciate. There are dozens of great GIMP extensions, so it was a challenge to pick only 5, but as these picks are emblematic of the power and flexibility of GIMP, I think they deserve the honor. Thanks to these goodies you can extend the functionality of the program in the direction you need. One of the best things about GIMP is the availability of tons of plugins, scripts, extensions, and other resources.

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