The Image Expansion Tool 1.3.1 review

The Image Expansion Tool is a GIMP plugin that expanses the region around the midpoint of an image. The expansion can have one of se

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 239K Developer: Tim vor der Br?ck

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The Image Expansion Tool is a GIMP plugin that expanses the region around the midpoint of an image.

The expansion can have one of several forms: ellipse, square. Quite good results with persons can be obtained if the midpoint of the picture is located on the persons nose.

Requirements:
UNIX compatible environment (e.g. Linux)
GIMP 2.x
GTK 2.x
pkgconfig
gcc (gnu C compiler/make)

Installation:

Just type:
./configure
make
make install

make install installs this software into the GIMP plugin directory of the current user. If you want to install this plugin globally copy the file imet into the plugin directory of your GIMP installation.

Usage:

First start GIMP. Load an image. Open the context menu with the right mouse button. Select the menu item filter->imet.

After calling imet a GUI will open (see picture above) where several options can be adjusted which are the form of the expansion and an inversion swith.The intensity can be any real number, where 0 results in no image change at all, positive numbers in expansion, negative in impansion. The reverse flag is usefull for asymetric filters. Since imet does not have a progress bar you may have to be a bit patient until the result is visible.

What's New in This Release:
A crash that occurred due to use of the system color map was fixed.
The color map of the containing widget is now used instead.
The documetation was updated.