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Top 40 GIMP plugins

techzilo.com — GIMP is the undisputed king of image editing in Linux platforms, and is next only to Photoshop in popularity in Windows and Mac platforms. Most of these plug in are aimed at web-designers and photographers, the main users of GIMP. There are also some to fix common problems of GIMP.

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  • digitalvik, on 12/23/2007, -2/+11Very nice compilation.
    • bbqsalad, on 12/23/2007, -0/+7Indeed. Thanks to the poster.
      • Justice101, on 12/23/2007, -0/+3sorry for the comment hitching, but watch out some of those second tier links lead to Trojans.
    • kalphegor, on 12/24/2007, -1/+1But, where's the plugin to make it Photoshop?
  • StanStutter, on 12/23/2007, -0/+29Liquid rescale is pretty cool:
    http://liquidrescale.wikidot.com/en:examples
  • MicorsoftSam, on 12/23/2007, -48/+1HAHA ur story only got 22 digs
  • schestowitz, on 12/23/2007, -7/+8There are also tools that enable you to add Photoshop plugins on hooks. Hardcore Photoshoppers tend not to know this.
    • passedoutghost, on 12/23/2007, -13/+5Yeah, cause hardcore Photoshoppers tend to use Photoshop, not the GIMP.
  • Sinne, on 12/23/2007, -0/+2Great. Thanks!
  • Verz, on 12/23/2007, -0/+15Could use some example images of each..
    • passedoutghost, on 12/23/2007, -0/+6I'm been mucking around in Gimp for a few days, my images turn out ok, not fantastic, but the Gimp comes pretty close to Photoshop in terms of features. Here's a pretty simple wallpaper: http://i13.tinypic.com/85lhrvk.jpg

      [Don't judge me too harshly cause I've only been using Gimp for about a 3 days when I made that and it probably doesn't even compare with what experienced users could make]
      • stalefries, on 12/24/2007, -0/+3If you plan on doing a lot of that style, you'd be better off learning something like Inkscape first.
    • Malachai, on 12/24/2007, -0/+1I liked it, actually. You might get modded down because of the zealous nature of some diggers, but it's nice, especially considering the amount of time you've been using Gimp.

      (By the way, Inkscape is, in fact, better for vector stuff like that. But, as you've proven, there's more than one way to skin a cat.)
  • estvir, on 12/23/2007, -12/+3What a retarded list, why are things like generate snow and bubbles under web-design?
  • r3negadeX, on 08/11/2008, -9/+4Kind of sad that the GIMP doesn't have anti-aliasing by default
    • stopbrorape, on 12/23/2007, -2/+2give gimp a break though, it's free.
    • knopper67, on 01/08/2008, -0/+1You must be retarded...
      It's under Filters > Enhance > Antialias

      Now stop bashing GIMP.
  • MacintoshMan, on 12/23/2007, -15/+2The gimp is such an illogical program. The GIMP creators need to create a EXACT copy of photoshop cs3 just like how open office is an EXACT copy of word. I don't know one person who prefers the gimp over photoshop if they are great at using both.
    • sirhomer, on 12/23/2007, -5/+9Why? Photoshop's UI is *****. It doesn't fit well in Linux at all. MDI interfaces don't play well with virtual desktops or tiled window managers. With GIMP I can use dual monitors seamlessly or split different images on diferent virtual desktops. Can't do that with Photoshop's interface. However, if you really want Photoshop's ***** UI check out GimpShop, which tries to clone it.
  • happycat, on 12/23/2007, -7/+5"and is next only to Photoshop in popularity in Windows and Mac platforms"
    When did this happen?
    • herrshuster, on 12/23/2007, -3/+1since...gmip, paint.net and paint were the only other applications and no one's heard of paint.net (yet)
      • mossblaser, on 12/23/2007, -0/+2pant.net isn;t trying to be photoshop (read thier site) - they are trying to be an *easy to use* but powerful editor built on .net. Personally I don't like it and .net runs ***** anyway, besides I can use linux for all my aps if i dnt use it so its an easy choice.
      • fyngyrz, on 12/24/2007, -1/+2Now that's just plain ignorant. There are plenty of other applications. The difference is in marketing as far as who has heard of what, or not. Up a few messages, some guy TRIED to tell you clowns about "pixel", and he was dug down and bitched at by some moron. If your minds were even fractionally open, you'd know about Ron Scott's work and others. There are plenty of VERY powerful apps out there. They all have pros and cons (and that surely includes both Photoshop and the Gimp.) If you (cough) "professionals" didn't spend so much time echoing Adobe's propaganda on the one hand, and the "gotta be open source" children's rhyme on the other, you'd probably have time and energy to learn a heck of a lot more about the graphics tool options available to you.
    • BlueSkyfish, on 12/23/2007, -0/+8Since everyone abandoned Paint Shop Pro
    • Karmavs, on 12/23/2007, -5/+2Someone's forgetting Paint Shop Pro…
  • SwordofKahless, on 12/23/2007, -12/+3As much as I love Linux. GIMP sucks when comparing scan quality to scanning in Windows.
    • mossblaser, on 12/23/2007, -0/+5Thats ur drivers/ability to use XSane mate. Sorry to burst ur bubble mate.
  • iMoth, on 12/23/2007, -20/+4***** gimp.
  • Alex2, on 12/23/2007, -3/+4Looked at the panorama plugin, doesn't look like it supports adjusting for lens effect for stitching - basically a primitive 'move 8 layers around manually' tool.

    I'll stick with my commercial solution.
    • jorgenmz, on 12/23/2007, -0/+6I've used hugin a couple of times and seems to do an ok job. Don't know if it'll be useful to you but... well, I thought I'd brought it up in case you haven't heard of it.
    • fyngyrz, on 12/24/2007, -2/+1I'll stick with my app that has the ability to arbitrarily position any number of layers, lens (and otherwise warp) them nondestructively, give me complete or partial results with or without panning -- and that's without even nodding in the general direction of panoramas, that's just stuff that's built in as general tools. But wait - it isn't Photoshop, and it isn't open source, so... it's time for a digging down. ;-) Go, PROFESSIONALS!
  • killthemoles, on 12/23/2007, -0/+9Does GIMP have some kind of manager like Eclipse does where you could just checkmark and download what plugins you wanted rather than installing them each individually.
    • Phlosten, on 12/23/2007, -0/+8No, but that would be very cool. Who is going to jump in and code for this?
  • ericbramlett, on 12/23/2007, -0/+1Great list - thanks! I'm just starting to learn GIMP, and will definitely incorporate these.
  • condormcs, on 12/24/2007, -7/+1people actually use gimp?
    ...always thought it was just there for show
    • condormcs, on 12/24/2007, -1/+1sure...digg me down...but you know its true!
  • jarsonic, on 12/24/2007, -0/+1Does anyone remember the Photostack plugin? http://www.dotsphinx.com/software/photostack/

    I love that one, though it seems like it needs a little bit of editing to get it to work in the newest GIMP. Anyone up to the task? ;)
  • omgwthlol, on 12/24/2007, -3/+1GNU Image Manipulation Program.
  • cdmarcus, on 12/24/2007, -0/+1Ugh, it would be nice if more of them included binaries for Linux rather than just sources + Windows binaries.
  • jtxx000, on 12/24/2007, -0/+1http://gimp-plug-ins.sourceforge.net/fourier/home. ...
    Wooo.... now I can take the Fourier transform of my cat.
  • MrDarkSim, on 12/24/2007, -0/+1There is a couple of plugins that I use on this page:
    http://nifelheim.dyndns.org/~cocidius/

    Especially the .dds plugin
  • DestroyFascism, on 12/24/2007, -0/+1Nice list........
  • omgwthlol, on 12/24/2007, -0/+1666 DIGGS
  • zongamin, on 12/24/2007, -0/+1gimp still stinks on OS X - Pixelmator is better
  • adison, on 01/29/2008, -0/+0Is gimp good for experts or can a novice understand and use it without too much trouble? The plugins look great and can be an advantage if you have time to learn and use them. Right off the bat there are some I would use every day. - http://www.ctmf.edu
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