{"id":319,"date":"2009-07-16T23:57:02","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T18:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/?p=319"},"modified":"2009-07-16T23:57:02","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T18:27:02","slug":"gimp-plugin-web-2-0-shadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/gimp-plugin-web-2-0-shadows\/","title":{"rendered":"GIMP Plugin – Web 2.0 Shadows"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Time to take a break from the WordPress Plugins. This time, its a Gimp Plugin. Gimp, or GNU Image Manipulation Program<\/a>, is a software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. Its what we Linux guys use instead of Photoshop. Web 2.0 Shadows is a Gimp Plugin – or as Gimpers call it, a Script-fu.<\/p>\n

Download Web 2.0 Shadows Script-fu<\/a><\/h3>\n

This plugin will add a shadow to your image and give the full thing a background color of your choice. Why the background? for two reasons…<\/p>\n

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JPEG Images<\/dt>\n
they don’t support transparency – they need some background.<\/dd>\n
IE6<\/dt>\n
I created this plugin years ago – just never got around to realeasing it. When I created it, IE6 was still used – and it did not support Alpha Transparency in PNG images. So a background was needed.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

Samples\/Screenshots<\/h2>\n

\"interface\"<\/p>\n

\"Serenity<\/p>\n

Almost all the pictures that appear in any of my blogs has been treated with Web 2.0 Shadow plugin. If you don’t believe me, take a look<\/a> at few<\/a> of my old<\/a> posts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Installation<\/h2>\n

To install the script, download the .scm file and follow the installation procedures<\/a> specified in the Gimp documentation. This should work on both Windows and Linux.<\/p>\n

Gimp<\/h2>\n

I have written a series on creating Web 2.0 style graphics in Gimp<\/a>. If you are interested in Gimp, take a look at that too.<\/p>\n

One thing that might interest you – this plugin is my only program in Scheme. This is the closest I have been to doing any work in Lisp(Scheme is a dialect of Lisp). I hope to change this someday.<\/p>\n

Plugin Week 2<\/h2>\n

This plugin is part of the Plugin Week 2 series. Plugin Week is a week when I publish a new plugin each day for an entire week<\/strong>. I have already one this one time<\/a> – so this is Plugin Week 2. The plugins released so far…<\/p>\n