NEWS

It is extremely important users update to the latest GEGL Effects from late May 2024 as it is compatible with both GIMP 2.10 and GIMP 2.99.19+ without text clipping. If you keep using an old version it will work on 2.99.19 but create problems like crashing when GIMP is closed and text clipping.

Downloadable binaries for Windows and Linux is here

https://github.com/LinuxBeaver/GEGL-Effects---Layer-Effects-in-Gimp-using-GEGL/releases/

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GEGL Effects CE by Beaver

GEGL effects CE is a GEGL Gimp plugin that does layer effects/text styling in Gimp. Allowing users to make all their favorite text styles. GEGL Effects CE ships with and requires three bonus filters, and two hidden operations. You will find that gegl:bevel, gegl:innerglow and gegl:glassovertext are more useful on their own as they have more options in stand alone.

Instructions

If you choose not to use prebuilt binaries. You must compile innerglow, glassovertext, zzstrokebevelimage, shinytext, bevel and gegleffectscontinual and put the .so/dll files in gegl-0.4/plug-ins. Then restart Gimp and go to Gimp's GEGL operations. You can effortlessly compile just by clicking on the sh file respectively for Windows (mysys2) or Linux

About GEGL Effects CE

In the early days this was the experimental version of GEGL Effects before becoming the default. Now this is a stable yet continual updating version of GEGL Effects that can co-exist with a designated old version of GEGL Effects (that I recommend people discard). Presets from said old stable GEGL Effects will not work with this version . You can find old stable here. https://github.com/LinuxBeaver/GEGL-Effects---Layer-Effects-in-Gimp-using-GEGL/tree/main

You are expected to also download GEGL InnerGlow, GEGL Bevel GEGL Glass On Text and GEGL zzstrokebevelimage GEGL Shiny Text. The plugin will not work correctly without them. In total you should have, gegleffectspending, glassovertext, shinytext, zzstrokebevelimage, bevel and innerglow for this filter to work.

Example of plugin working alongside a special legacy version of GEGL Effects as seen here.

Directories to put binaries and info

.dll is for Windows and .so is for Linux

Windows C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\gegl-0.4\plug-ins

Windows Alt C:\Users\AppData\Local\gegl-0.4\plug-ins

Linux /home/(USERNAME)/.local/share/gegl-0.4/plug-ins

Linux (Flatpak) /home/(USERNAME)/.var/app/org.gimp.GIMP/data/gegl-0.4/plug-ins

*note - Windows users may need to create the plug-ins folder if it doesn't exist.

Compiling and Installing

Linux

To compile and install you will need the GEGL header files (libgegl-dev on Debian based distributions or gegl on Arch Linux) and meson (meson on most distributions).

meson setup --buildtype=release build
ninja -C build

If you have an older version of gegl you may need to copy to ~/.local/share/gegl-0.3/plug-ins instead (on Ubuntu 18.04 for example).

Windows

The easiest way to compile this project on Windows is by using msys2. Download and install it from here: https://www.msys2.org/

Open a msys2 terminal with C:\msys64\mingw64.exe. Run the following to install required build dependencies:

pacman --noconfirm -S base-devel mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain mingw-w64-x86_64-meson mingw-w64-x86_64-gegl

Then build the same way you would on Linux:

meson setup --buildtype=release build
ninja -C build

Notes about using GEGL Effects on 2.10 vs GIMP 2.99/3

Gimp 2.10 users are expected to first layer to image size then open GEGL Operations and apply GEGL Effects Continual. GIMP 2.99.19/GIMP3+ users can just type in GEGL Effects and edit text live.

Here are some more pics just to show off various text styles made with the Gimp Plugin GEGL Effects

Inner Glow Bevel and Glass Over text, the stand alones

Inner Glow

Bevel

Glass on Text

Is there a guide for GEGL Effects?

Yes, look for Help_Documents_for_GEGL_Effects/GEGL_Effects_guide_final.pdf - this tutorial contains everything you need.

Downgrading to older versions of my plugins

If you choose to downgrade GEGL Effects or any of my plugins that has a GEGL Enum List (blend mode switchers) to an earlier version, you must go to /config/GIMP/2.10/filters and delete the saved settings file associate with the plugin. You can find it by searching the plugins name, If this is not done it will keep reporting that a file is corrupt and not allow you to make presets.** MULTIPLE VERSIONS OF ANY OF MY PLUGINS CANNOT CO-EXIST.** Gimp will always select the earliest one. The only exception to this is a build of GEGL Effects I provided where I renamed the ENUM list to make them co-compatible. I recommend you don't downgrade unless you know what you are doing. Downgrading plugins can break .xcf files in 2.99.18+