Updated 2005-02-16
When I post my images online, I do it with a standard style - a white frame
around it, with a title and a name at the bottom. Have a look at some of the
large images in the gallery to see what I
mean, or click the "Random Photo" thumbnail to the left.
Adding this by hand is very laborious, so I wrote a script for the Gimp to do it. It takes an image, converts it to 72dpi if necessary, optionally resizes it to a size of your choice, (taking into account whether it's portrait or landscape), adds a white border, and adds the captions. It also generates a 100xwhatever thumbnail as a seperate image, this time where 100 is the smaller dimension.
To install the script, uncompress it first (gunzip framer.gz on most
unix-likes). If you have the application gimptool, you can
install this with the following command:
gimptool --install-bin framer
Which should install it in the correct place on your system. Failing that, you
should chmod +x framer and copy it to your gimp plug-ins directory;
either in your home directory (eg. ~/.gimp-1.2/plug-ins/) to make
the script available to you, or in the system-wide directory
(eg. /usr/lib/gimp/1.2/plug-ins/) to make it available to all users
of your system.
The script appears in the right-click menu of the image, Script-Fu, Decor, Framer. I've only tested it on Gimp 1.2 - it might not work on other versions.
