Tutorial

A reader asked me a question about batch processing with Gimp. I've never used Gimp for batch processing (I usually go for ImageMagick), but I thought it might be interesting to have look at how you can batch-run your Python-Fu scripts, before we go on to the next chapter.

Welcome back to this tutorial, and sorry for the long time since part 2! Thanks again to everyone who sent comments about this tutorial, I do hope it helped you.

This time we will focus on retrieving information from a Gimp image and its layers, as well a saving this information to a file. This will serve as a base for a future article of this tutorial where we will learn to code a full custom file format support for Gimp.

Welcome back to this series of articles about Gimp Python plugins. In the first part, we learned a bit about what was available for extending Gimp, how to install Gimp Python, find documentation and learned how to interact with Gimp through Python using the Python Console. We will now look at plugin registration and start coding our first script.

I've been a huge fan of The Gimp for over 10 years, and I recently discovered how powerful scripting Gimp with Python is! I needed to write tools to handle custom file formats used in our game engine, as well as image processing tools to generate particular data for some gameplay concepts. I realized that Gimp Python scripts could be the solution, and it was indeed! So, I'm offering a series of tutorial articles which might help those interested in extending Gimp with Python, on Windows or Linux.