GEGL Antique 2 - quality old photography GIMP plugin

contrast_ · **Joined:** Oct 31, 2020 **Posts:** 2012

Antique 2/Old photo effect is a new GEGL plugin that makes an image dated like the photo was taken in 1925 in 2025. All sorts of options like Sepia, Grayscale, Dated Color Saturation, Temperature shift, various noise control sliders and a faint border. This really makes the image look like it was decayed by father time but in reality its just a bunch of GEGL nodes giving it aging photo qualities.

This plugin is inspired by the original Antique plugin but heavily modified.

https://github.com/LinuxBeaver/GEGL-GIM ... _Antique2/

Find it in filters>Decor>Old Photo Antique 2

Download source code and binaries here

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LOCATION TO PUT BINARIES

Windows

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

Linux

~/.local/share/gegl-0.4/plug-ins

Linux (Flatpak includes Chromebook)

~/.var/app/org.gimp.GIMP/data/gegl-0.4/plug-ins

Enjoy

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16037

Cool filter Beaver!

Spiderman back in the day.

Nidhogg · **Posted:** Sat Aug 23, 2025 2:34 am **(#3)**

Thanks for the filter contrast_ :bigthup

Put my cat into a time machine, lowering the simplex noise makes it dustier?

contrast_ · **Joined:** Oct 31, 2020 **Posts:** 2012

This plugin now works on Windows GIMP 3.08 - 3.2 and hopefully beyond, Source code is above on Github

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The reason the file size is much larger is because of gettext being static linked inside the windows build. so it works on GIMP 3.2
https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/

Windows

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