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Karsten Günther loves to extend his GIMP installations with useful plugins. And playing with the new tools…
Many of the most important plugins presented here are quite old, but they are still maintained and sometimes even developed further. Depending on the distribution, the plugins we describe are available individually or in the form of a complete package – which is then called, for Texturize creates textures f example, gimp-plugin-registry textures can also be used a and combines several plugins. Otherwise, plugins are characterised by simple source code and can usually be compiled by the user without any problems.
Indispensable: Resynthesizer
This relatively old plugin, Resynthesizer (https://github. com/bootchk/resynthesizer) by Lloyd Konneker, is based on a simple idea: in a selected area, pixels are replaced or supplemented by material from the environment, for example to make objects present in the selection disappear. The trick in the replacement is the way in which the algorithm selects and inserts the new pixels. Randomness plays a certain role, which means that the results cannot be completely predicted, but are subject to certain variations. (Of course, this is no different with manual editing.) In many cases, however, the results are already extremely good in the first attempt. However, this algorithm requires a lot of computing time, which prevents a preview from being available. The algorithm underlying Resynthesizer is very interesting, as Konneker explains at https://github.com/bootchk/resynthesizer/wiki/About-the-algorithm/.
The Resynthesizer package consists of several parts: the actual engine, a relatively small C program, a GUI for it and a number of Python wrappers for special tasks. When installing this
