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Saturday, October 24, 2015

GIMP 2.9 (2.10 Development Builds) Available In New Ubuntu PPA

Thorsten Stettin has created a new PPA for Ubuntu / Linux Mint users who want to use the latest GIMP 2.9 development builds.

There won't be a GIMP 2.9 stable release - 2.9 is used for development and will result in the next stable GIMP version, 2.10.

The major new feature in GIMP 2.10 will be a complete port to GEGL / high bit depths and the latest GIMP from GIT already allows working in 16bit and 32bit per color channel mode, both integer and float:

Other features that will be available with GIMP 2.10 are a new wrap tool, seamless cloning, a unified transform tool and more.

Most of these new features are already work in progress and available in the latest GIMP development builds which you can install in Ubuntu by using Thorsten's PPA. However, remember that since these aren't stable GIMP builds, you may find bugs or incomplete features!

Install GIMP 2.9 (development build) in Ubuntu

To add Thorsten Stettin's GIMP Edge PPA and install GIMP 2.9 in Ubuntu 14.10, 14.04 or 13.10, use the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp-edge
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gimp

There are no GIMP 2.9 packages for Ubuntu versions older than 13.10!

The PPA also contains the latest GIMP Plugin Registry package: (a collection of GIMP plugins which includes GIMP FX Foundry and many other useful plugins) and GIMP G'MIC (G'MIC or GREYC's Magic Image Converter is a tool that comes with more than 190 pre-defined image filters and effects for GIMP). Install these extra GIMP plugins using the following command:

sudo apt-get install gimp-plugin-registry gimp-gmic

Revert the changes

If you want to go back to the stable GIMP version (purge the GIMP 2.9 development builds PPA and downgrade GIMP), use the following commands:

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp-edge

via Thorsten Stettin @ Google+

Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr Might Get A New Icon Theme

In an Ubuntu Developer Summit session today, Matthieu James (Graphic/Visual Designer at Canonical) presented the design guidelines as well as some of the work done to create a new icon theme for Ubuntu (both desktop and touch).

The main goal is to finalize the new icon theme for 14.04 on touch devices but it's also possible for the icon theme to be available for Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr on the desktop.

Here are a few screenshots with some of the slides in Matthieu's presentation (the quality is pretty bad since I took screenshots of the G+ hangout):

Unfortunately, the presentation used in the vUDS session is not yet available, but you can watch the entire session below:

(direct video link)

What do you think?

Also see: Possible Changes In Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

G`MIC (GREYC`s Magic For Image Computing) Sees New Stable Release

G'MIC (GREYC's Magic for Image Computing) is a framework for image processing that comes with a large number of pre-defined image filters and effects (almost 400, with an extra 300 testing filters). There are several interfaces for G'MIC: a command line tool, a web service, a Qt based interface for real-time webcam manipulation, a library and a GIMP plugin.

Below you can see a screenshot with the G'MIC GIMP plugin in action:

If you're interested in the complete list of filters available with the G'MIC plugin for GIMP, you can find it HERE. You can also see most of the G'MIC filters in action by following the links below:

images processed by the command line version of G'MIC: http://gmic.sourceforge.net/gallery.shtml
images processed using the G'MIC GIMP plugin: http://gmic.sourceforge.net/gimp.shtml

G'MIC 1.6.0 was released today, bringing just a few visual changes but a lot of new things under the hood, mentions the release announcement posted on the G'MIC Google+ page. Notable changes included in this release:

[gimp] New filter 'Film emulation / Various' that adds about 20 new color presets to the old 'Other effect' filter (which has been removed);
[gimp] New filter 'Details / Mighty details', to push out details in images;
[gimp] Filter 'Layers / Blend [standard]' has an additional option to manage how multiple blends are performed, in case more than 2 layers are given as input;
[gimp] Improved "Preview error" image when an error is encountered;
[core] New native command '-pass' that allows to insert images from parent contexts in custom commands and local environments. This allows to design custom commands that can take images as arguments;
[core] New command '-outputx' (eq. to '-ox') that saves images with same base filenames but with different extension(s);
[core] New command '-names' (eq. to '-nms') that can set different names to multiple selected images, with a single command;
[core] New command '-mul_channels' that multiply each channel of an image with different provided values;
[cli] New command '-update' that allows to retrieve command updates from the G'MIC project server. This way, the CLI interface of G'MIC can benefit from Internet updates easily, exactly as the GIMP plug-in;
[core] Many aspects of the libgmic API have been improved;
[cli] Invoking 'gmic -h' now display colored output on the terminal (if using bash);
[doc] Documentation pages have been improved. Links to tutorial pages have been inserted;
bug fixes and much more.

A complete list of changes for the latest G'MIC 1.6.0 can be found HERE.

Install G'MIC in Ubuntu / Linux Mint

G'MIC and the G'MIC GIMP plugin are available in the official Ubuntu repositories however, it's not the latest version. If you don't care about getting the latest version, simply install the "gmic-gimp" for the GIMP plugin(s) and "gmic" if you only want to use the command line interface:

sudo apt-get install gmic gimp-gmic

To get the latest G'MIC version, Ubuntu users can use +Thorsten Stettin's PPA. Note: by using this PPA, you may also receive GIMP (stable) updates. To add the PPA and install the latest G'MIC and the G'MIC GIMP Plugin in Ubuntu / Linux Mint and derivatives, use the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gmic gimp-gmic

Once installed, open a photo in GIMP, go to Filters > G'MIC and a dialog will pop-up from which you can select the effect(s) you want to apply. Each effect is of course customizable and you can see a live preview in the G'MIC window.

Note: Thorsten Stettin also maintains a GIMP 2.9 (development builds) PPA which includes G'MIC - for more information, see: GIMP 2.9 (2.10 Development Builds) Available In New Ubuntu PPA

Download G'MIC

For other Linux distributions, Windows and Mac OS X, see the G'MIC downloads page.

Dolphin Folder Color 1.3 is out, you can install on Kubuntu, Opensuse, Debian, Fedora, Slackware, PClinuxOS, Mageia an the most popular linux distro using KDE Desktop :

Dolphin Folder Color 1.3 is out, you can install on Kubuntu, Opensuse, Debian, Fedora, Slackware, PClinuxOS, Mageia an the most popular linux distro using KDE Desktop

Dolphin Folder Color is A contextual menu for coloring the folders so fast, also has the ability to color a selected set of folders.

A KDE Service Menu for coloring the folders so fast, also has the ability to color a selected set of folders.

Changelog :

Added initial support for Plasma5

How to install Dolphin folder color 1.3 on Kubuntu, Opensuse, Debian, Fedora, Slackware, PClinuxOS, Mageia an the most popular linux distro using KDE Desktop :

Download Dolphin folder color, You just need to run the script. \'Install.sh\' with a click and restart dolphin.
Note: should not be started from the shell. And it depends on kdialog.

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