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Full Circle THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE FOR THE UBUNTU LINUX COMMUNITY Special Edition GIMP Special Edition Full Ciircle Magaziine iis neiither affiiliiated wiith,, nor endorsed by,, Canoniical Ltd.. full circle magazine #84 1 contents ^ Full Circle Magazine Specials About Full Circle Find Us Full Circle is a free, Website: independent, magazine http://www.fullcirclemagazine.org/ dedicated to the Ubuntu family of Linux operating systems. Forums: Each month, it contains helpful http://ubuntuforums.org/ how-to articles and reader- forumdisplay.php?f=270 submitted stories. IRC: #fullcirclemagazine on Full Circle also features a Welcome to another 'single-topic special' chat.freenode.net companion podcast, the Full Editorial Team Circle Podcast which covers the Introducing the Gimp series by Ronnie Tucker, all you magazine, along with other budding artists can work through the features of this Editor: Ronnie Tucker news of interest. 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Full Circle Magazine is entirely independent of Canonical, the sponsor of Ubuntu projects and the views and opinions in the magazine should in no way be assumed to have Canonical endorsement. full circle magazine HHOOWW--TTOO UUSSEE PPHHOOTTOOSSHHOOPP Written by Luca De Marini PPLLUUGGIINNSS IINN GGIIMMPP Well we all know one of the biggest lacks of The Gimp is that is misses a good number of plugins. Photoshop is the one software everyone loves and uses when they have to apply any sort of mutation/transformation to its images, or when they have to create outstanding graphics with the help of well projected plugins. For Photoshop there are hundreds of plugins around. Is this a problem for The Gimp? Not at all. any of you may not know Pear and for the second plugin, the from GIMP’s point of view a GIMP it, but GIMP supports a freeware one, I’ve chosen plug-in.) This warning is Mlarge number of Caravaggio from Xero Graphics. harmless (GIMP just ignores that photoshop plugins, both in the file then), but if you want to Installing PSPI and Windows and Linux versions, avoid it, move pspi.exe.so Photoshop plugins thanks to this wonderful tool somewhere else and modify the called PSPI. Now, let’s see how to pspi script to point to its new Now it is time to install PSPI on use it and what we can do with location instead. your GIMP. The following is an extract our new toy; paying nothing, of from the PSPI site: course! After starting GIMP, go to the Xtns:Photoshop Plug-in Settings Getting Started 'The Linux packages include three files: README.linux pspi, a small and enter the folder where you are going to keep the 3rd-party First we need to install WINE on shell script pspi.exe.so, the binary that wine runs' Photoshop plug-ins (.8bf files) our Linux box (In Ubuntu, look for that you want to use in GIMP. the WINE package in Synaptic), Copy pspi and pspi.exe.so to your then we’ll need GIMP and PSPI, of Preferably you should use an personal GIMP plug-ins folder, course. We also need at least one empty folder for this, and then typically ~/.gimp-2.2/plug-ins . Photoshop plugin. To get started install (copy) Photoshop plug-ins and I downloaded two plugins, When you run GIMP it will issue a there one by one, verifying that one commercial and one warning “wire_read(): error” as each works. It isn’t really useful freeware. The first one is Designer pspi.exe.so can’t be started directly. to rush and install a great deal of Sextet from the company Flaming (The pspi script can, though, and is Photoshop plug-ins at once and 8 assume they all will work under analyzing the newly installed plugin: plugins. In my case we saw that pspi. it is /home/darkmaster/.gimp- But once 2.2/psplugins. So I did what they wrote in the GIMP is instructions and also copied my loaded I get Push the OK button and a freshly downloaded PS Plugins to no error message will appear warning a folder in my home that I called message as you that the new plugins will be ~/.gimp-2.2/psplugins. expected loaded next time you restart The (The PSPI GIMP. guide suggested Testing the new PS Plugins that an error may have occurred but I didn’t see any). All works fine for now. Proceeding with the settings, I open the GIMP Menu Xtns > Photoshop Plug-in Settings and this window shows up: Remember that this GIMP folder we are referring to is a hidden folder, therefore, you’ll have to set your file browser so that it shows hidden files. In my case, I use GNOME and Nautilus. I can To complete the operation I see hidden files by using the close and then reopen The GIMP. Nautilus menu View > Show Even now I don’t get any error hidden files. Hit the New button (In my message. I then load an image screenshot it is the white sheet of from my HDD and then click on Setting The GIMP UP paper with an orange star over it, on the Filters menu. The plugins are the upper left corner of the above at the bottom of the menu. As the guide says, I start GIMP screenshot) and choose the path and it hangs up for some seconds where you put your Photoshop 9 Let’s test them! Will they work? Rating and Credits I start with Flaming Pear > Aetherize and… wow it works! Ok, it's not a review but none Here’s a screenshot! the less I rate this PSPI extension for GIMP as a 5 out of 5, it does what it promises to do and it adds vital functionalities to The GIMP. A big thank you goes to the WINE project, PSPI team and to GIMP creators. Conclusions Now it’s Caravaggio’s turn and wow, it works too! Another So I tested two random Photoshop screenshot for the press: plugins from around the net and two of two worked. Guess there’s a very For more PSPI info: high compatibility thanks to Wine getting better and better with each http://url.fullcirclemagazine.org/1fa7e2 release.. What can I say now? Enjoy, and say goodbye to one of the most deprecated defects of GIMP, the lack of good and professional plugins! If This is the result of applying the you have the money, you can buy Caravaggio filter (right) and use serious plugins like those Now doesn’t that look like a real from Alien Skin in Linux with The painting? This Caravaggio plugin GIMP and PSPI now! is excellent and it’s freeware. 10 HHOOWW--TTOO UUSSIINNGG GGIIMMPP -- PPaarrtt 11 Written by Ronnie Tucker This series of tutorials, based on GIMP 2.4.2, will not cover every square inch of GIMP, since that would fill a book (and indeed has already filled several), but, by the end, you will be proficient enough in GIMP to create anything from simple web banners to large posters suitable for professional printing. irst, let's open GIMP, and (Paintbrush, in this case). At the top on the word have a quick look at its right are tabs for Layers, Channels 'Layers' on the Flayout. Please note that a and so on, and at the bottom right window, and first load of GIMP may look are tabs for Brushes among other drag it back to slightly different from my layout things. GIMP has a very flexible the top right (below). First I will briefly discuss layout system where you can drag (left). the GIMP layout. and drop items from place to place. For example, if I want to have my Layers You can presented on do this a separate with window, I anything can click on you like - the Layers so feel free tab (top to configure your layout to right, shown whatever makes you most right), and comfortable. If, by accident, you drag it out to close any of your windows, and my desktop. need to get it back, click on File On the top left we see the tools, > Dialogs and then the item you and on the bottom left we see the If I want to have the Layers display want shown - or hidden for that options for the chosen tool back where it was, I click and drag matter (above).

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