Can you explain what you are thinking? I can't picture it...

-Rob A>

The script is very fast now Rob.
Thanks!

Here is GMIC Solidify.
Thanks David!

sure ;
Amanda asked a option to limit the radius of the effect so the rest will remain transparent
i think may be interesting if i may set the borders to any color, as example black and the effect fading on black instead then transparence

thinking better i suppose i may already have something similar if i make a subject in the center and a thin black frame at the border..i must try

How about: (gimp-layer-set-edit-mask layer FALSE)

You are the bees knees! I had missed that one.

So I've uploaded version 1.1 which now has a parameter to set the distance to bleed the colours our (or 0 for the entire image) This makes sense if you are using the transfer mask option, as it only needs to go a few iterations in that case.

I also changed the name to Bleed Colour into Transparent Areas as that i what it does...

-Rob A>

Cool Bob; makes creating the fritzy ball child's play.

I came out with another good use for this script.

You can use it to generate "heat maps" quite easily. Here I painted dots where I want certain colours, then ran the script.

I followed up with a small blur than my Posterized Indexed script to get the banding. In the third frame I circled the original dots just to show the colour was preserved.



-Rob A>

That sure beats trying to do it with an airbrush!

This is why I love this GIMP community. The sky is the limit on different ways to use scripts, etc.

Should have said cool Rob; not Bob. lol

Cool use for the heat maps too Rob.

I was wondering why you called him Bob
I was thinking maybe it was a pet name for Robert.
My late brothers name is Robert, and we always called him Bobby.

It is a great script though Rob, thanks again.

It took me a bit of experimenting to get these results. Interesting use of two scripts.

Hello can someone help me with how to use this please?

Im an improving beginner and I need to de-halo some part alpha images but ive installed the script in the scripts folder (C:\Users\M\.gimp-2.6\scripts) and it simply wont show up in the filters list at any time. Ive looked over and over and it never appears. Am i using it wrong?

Its a single background image, ive saved it in both tga and png. Its 2/3rds solid and 1/3 alpha but theres a barely visible white border all around the edge of the alpha whenever i use the image and I was pointed at the flaming pear solidify filter as the way others get rid of it. I tried that with pspi but it wont work in new gimp versions, keeps giving me an error so after hours of experimentation and searching I found this script but no matter what I do I cant apply it to my images. Tried on the latest 2.6.11 gimp and in a fit of frustration uninstalled and reverted to gimp 2.6.8 but i still dont see it.

This is a major show stopper for me, I dont know how else to get rid of the horrible halo effect. Can someone explain in simple terms how to apply it to a tga/png image please? I can take complicated instructions, its just im completely lost at this time.

Thank you all

The filter is in Layer > Transparency > Bleed Colour into Transparent Areas


I had to search for it myself the other day.

Hi MillieMinx, and welcome to Gimp Chat.
Here is where you will find the filter in Gimp.After you place the SCM file in the SCRIPTS folder.


Here i have disabled the mask to show the effect.


My settings (this will vary per image, but make sure you use the layer mask for halos.

Ohhhh now I feel silly, it wasnt in filters at all

Thank you both of you. I sort of have it working now, it bleeds out the white edge where the image and alpha meet, but I still get the grey border around the edge of the alpha at the image edge, but I think its something to do with the error that comes up, tga (or png) plug in cant handle layer masks, I apply the export but still the phantom edge line exists, but i know this is starting to get outside the topic here so I might have to make a new thread (after a few more dents in my forehead).

The script adds a layer mask to the layer. In the Layer window, right click on the layer and select "Apply Layer Mask". Or in the main menu, Layer > Mask > Apply Layer Mask.

thank you yes im doing that, it prompts me, but also i do it beforehand so it doesnt show the error - still a gray ~1 pixel border around the image edge where the alpha is, unseen on the original

i guess its something to do with how im handling the layers or something, the plugin appears to work as its supposed to, i see the bleed pattern aside from the mask.. its tough being a newbie

You could try shrinking the size of the selection before running the script:
Layer right-click > Alpha to Selection
Main menu Select > Shrink... (use the default 1px shrink)
Invert the selection (Select > Invert or Ctrl-I)
Delete the non-alpha area (Edit > Clear or the Del key for Windows)
Deselect (Select > None or Ctrl-Shift-A)
Then run the script.

Another thing to try is to increase the "Start and Step Size" in the Bleed Color script.

We all started as newbie's; that's what forums like this are for.

Okay, I know it has a name, but I just woke up.

Anyway, if it could have an alias, I'd urge:

RobA-EdgeBurst

In WWII, when artillery shells hit trees, the trees went in all directions: "tree bursts".

If an artillery shell hit a edge, I think it would look more like a edge burst than a bleed color into transparent areas.

And, oh, how I count on it doing black and white.

Thanks for a ready-made solution waiting for me to need it.
--
GramP