carol.gimp.org

Available at present only to gnu/linux, TheGIMP Image Publishing Plug-in will find all sorts of information for you about your image, help you choose a license from several at the Creative Commons Organization or to apply a license of your own making.

Perhaps not even to be considered beta edition, at this point; this plug-in puts all of the information it can determine about your image into a text file called image_name.gipp and embed the gathered information into your images for future reference.

The plan for this plug-ins immediate future is to enable it to grab exif information (and maybe check that against the image) if it exists, to produce xml files instead of this demonstration format and to create a dtd for the gipp files. Also, a help button should be added, as well as the ability to import XMP information and convert it to a format (GIPP) more available to more operating systems.

Beyond this, I would like to add scanned image information, frame stacks and sound file information to the gipp file.

The script can be downloaded and installed fairly easily if you have gimp-python working on your computer. It might need gimp-2.2 for some new parasite handling things ....

The Plug-in Face

Some editing has happened to this widget between the screen shot and the birth of this web page. The same information is requested, the descriptions are a little shorter.

This portion of the plug-in was created to license work that was completely created on a computer. Photographs and digital images created by other devices have different information available.

What the plug-in wants

Image name (image_name)

A name for the image; spaces and odd characters get removed. If you put My Image.gif into the text box, the name of your image will be "MyImagegif" and will have the extension you choose in the next section.

Image format (extension)

The options are jpg, png or xcf -- images with comment sections available. In the future this plug-in may support PSD and TIFF as well.

Save directory (image_location)

Tell the plug-in which directory the image and the gipp file are to be saved. Some knowledge of your computers directory system may be required.

Foreground and Background colors (fg_colour, bg_colour)

My photographer friend always had an opinion on what background would be best for each individual image. GIPP will remember this opinion. Other apps can use it.

Preserve original parasites (preserve)

I need to do more experimenting with the parasites; I fully admit to not considering that an image might have many parasites attached to it -- until I started this exercise. When discussing this option to remove all of the existing parasites from an image, I justified it this way: "I heard Carrie Fisher say once that 'you should be a virgin as many times as necessary', and I guess I can give this same oportunity to images...."

Use the artist name and date (use_extra)

If yes, GIPP will remember the artist name and license date and include this with the other image information; if no, you can safely skip entering this information in the next two plug-in entry points.

Artist Name (artist)

Put your name here. If you opt to not use the artist info, the plug-in will ignore this.

License Date (license_date)

The date you would like your license to take effect. This is ignored if you tell the plug-in to ignore the extra information.

Add a license (get_license)

If you toggle the cc choice, a web browser pops up at the right time with the Creative Commons license menu. After stepping through the licensing process the plug-in acknowledges completion with a success page (don't close that one). At that point, you can safely close the web browser and the plug-in will report the license information to the gipp file and go on to complete it's other information mongering tasks. Opting for lf (it stands for "license file") will allow you to use your own hand crafted text message/license; just save it to a text file on your computer. no means that you will skip the license portion of the GIPP file.

Location of license file (file_location)

Show the plug-in where your hand crafted license file is if you opt for lf in the previous choice.

The gipp file

I ran the logo for the success web page through my plug-in and this is the gipp file we created:

gimp_comment = Made with TheGIMP
gimp_version = 2.3.0
gipp_comment = Touched by GIPP as well....
gipp_version = 2


background_color = (255, 255, 255)
foreground_color = (0, 0, 0)
image_name = GIPP_Logo
image_source = /home/carol/images/gipp-logo.xcf
image_source_width = 377
image_source_height = 233
image_source_unit = inches


license_url = http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
license_name = Attribution
license_text = 

This work is licensed under the 
Creative Commons Attribution License. 
To view a copy of this license, visit 
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/



license_date = 2005
name = Carol Spears


image_extension = xcf
monitor_related_width = 377
monitor_related_height = 233
monitor_related_unit = inches
monitor_resolution_x = 100
monitor_resolution_y = 100
monitor_resolution_unit = inches
colorspace  = undefined