Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 14:44:03 -0400 From: Ted Knight <e.knight@ix.netcom.com> To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Photo manipulation SW Message-ID: <33C7D073.41C67EA6@ix.netcom.com> References: <199707121814.LAA12240@rah.star-gate.com>
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Amancio Hasty wrote: > > Sorry for the double post.... > > Graphic image manipulation programs are closely tied to multimedia . > This is a topic that I was hoping to open up to the group;however, > in my case I have been tied up with low level stuff. > > It is never too late to start talking about cool graphic/image > manipulation 8) If you visit my sound driver web page , > you will see a neat looking heading which was generated over the > net using net-fu: > http://rah.star-gate.com/HyperNews/get/forums/sound.html > http://scheme.xcf.berkeley.edu/net-fu/ > > So lets open up to the forum by starting to talk about gimp or a cool > gimp image procedure or filter . Any takers? > > Why gimp? Cause there are tons of references in the web about gimp and > in some cases people translate adobe photoshop procedures to gimp. > Among many things, one of the nice features of gimp is that it has > a plug-in interface so additionally functionality is easy to distribute > For example , the scsi scanner software package has a gimp plugin > interface which allows it to import scanned images directly into > gimp for image manipulation. > > Before we get into language wars because gimp's nterpreter is > scheme . Eric Hernes <rrnet.com> wrote a tcl interface for gimp > so at the very least we have to available interpreters to use;although, > most available script-fu procedures are written in scheme. > > Enjoy, > Amancio I have compiled gimp-0.99.19 flawlessly on freebsd it works very well. If you are going to use Script-Fu you will need the freefont collection and you will have to install the gimp data from gimp-0.99.9 to get all of the scripts to run ( this one point is not documented ). Therer are many tutorials to assist in doing neat image manipulations. TK
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